Today is the last day Kansas University will be accepting applications to fill its baseball coaching vacancy.

Richard Konzem, the KU associate athletic director who heads the six-member search committee, has said he hopes to begin interviews at mid-month and make a recommendation to athletic director Al Bohl by the end of June.

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Konzem already has asked for permission to talk to Minnesota’s John Anderson, the school’s all-time winningest baseball coach. In Anderson’s 20th year, the Gophers won the 2002 Big Ten championship.

Another head coach the Jayhawks are expected to interview is Brad Hill, a former KU aide who has won more than 80 percent of his games during eight seasons at Central Missouri State, an NCAA Division II school.

Hill, a native of Galva, played at Emporia State and was head coach at Hutchinson Community College. He was hitting coach and recruiting coordinator under Dave Bingham at Kansas before going to CMSU.

Sunny Galloway of Oral Roberts University is another head coach expected to be in the mix. Galloway, now in his seventh year at the Tulsa school, currently is serving as an assistant coach with Team USA.

Galloway is a former assistant coach at Oklahoma.

Another native Kansan may lead the list of assistant coaches likely to receive an interview.

Mitch Thompson, a native of Goodland and a former Fort Hays State player, has been hitting coach and recruiting coordinator at Baylor for the last eight seasons. Year in and year out, Baylor has had one of the Big 12 Conference’s top baseball programs.

“I think it’s a job that’s very intriguing,” Thompson said. “Lots of people would like the opportunity to have a head coaching job in the Big 12 Conference.”

KU is looking for a replacement for Bobby Randall who resigned last month after the Jayhawks finished in the Big 12 Conference basement for the second straight season.