At least eight names remain on the list for the Kansas University baseball coaching vacancy after the search committee met Monday for the second time.

KU is looking for a replacement for Bobby Randall, who resigned in May after the Jayhawks finished in the Big 12 Conference basement for the second year in a row.

“We’re playing a lot of phone tag now with people on the road,” said committee chair and associate athletic director Richard Konzem, “but we hope to start phone interviews on Friday. It might be until the 24th before we can do final interviews.”

Two current head coaches thought to be among the leading candidates are Loren Hibbs of North Carolina-Charlotte and Brad Hill of Central Missouri State.

Also still in the picture, it is believed, are a couple of assistant coaches at Big 12 schools  Mitch Thompson of Baylor and Mike Anderson of Nebraska. Both have been aides at their respective schools for eight years. Thompson is a native of Goodland; Anderson is from Eaton, Colo.

Konzem heads a six-person committee also that includes softball coach Tracy Bunge, faculty representative Don Green, Williams Fund director Jay Hinrichs and former KU players Darryl Monroe and Lee Ice.