{"id":879559,"date":"2025-12-21T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/kansas-suspends-assistant-basketball-coach-joe-dooley-after-dui-arrest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:22:23","slug":"kansas-suspends-assistant-basketball-coach-joe-dooley-after-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/kansas-suspends-assistant-basketball-coach-joe-dooley-after-dui-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas suspends assistant basketball coach Joe Dooley after DUI arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<article id=\"article-1a6ada01-076a-3db3-a993-920a397bd2e5\">\n<div data-i13n-boundary=\"true\" id=\"story-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Story by<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:logo;itc:0;sec:logo-provider;slk:Associated Press;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"basketball\" alt=\"basketball Associated Press\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"24\" height=\"28\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/BRNR7h5bBTgsO3famlhyKg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQ4O2g9NTY7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-12\/9b2f0f90-355f-11eb-bef3-afd1c608253f\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/ks\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Kansas<\/a> has suspended men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach Joe Dooley after he was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident, the school said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jayhawks coach Bill Self said Dooley \u201cexercised poor judgement and will be suspended for three weeks, effectively immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe is remorseful, apologetic and accepts the consequences of his actions,\u201d Self added.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley was hired by Self in 2003 and worked with him for a decade before serving as the head coach at Florida Gulf Coast and East Carolina. He returned to the Jayhawks in 2022, first as the director of student-athlete development and now an assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No. 17;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">No. 17<\/a> Kansas plays Davidson on Monday night before opening Big 12 play against UCF on Jan. 3 in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">here<\/a>. 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(AP) \u2014 Kansas has suspended men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach Joe Dooley after he was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident, the school said in a statement Sunday. Jayhawks coach Bill Self said Dooley \u201cexercised poor judgement and will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,3227,23543],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-879559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-kansas","10":"category-suspends","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}