The Kansas-UCF series, which favors KU 3-1, has been something of an adventure over the course of the Knights’ first couple seasons in the Big 12 Conference. The Jayhawks lost to the Knights in the first-ever Big 12 game at Addition Financial Arena in 2024, then came back a year later and ...

Kansas coach Bill Self said on Thursday that star guard Darryn Peterson is slated to play in the Jayhawks’ conference opener on Saturday at UCF. “Darryn’s practiced, same as before, but it’s a little bit of a different level now as far as his explosiveness,” Self said. “So unless ...

A new year and the start of the spring semester bring a variety of fresh opportunities for athletes across Kansas’ 16 varsity sports teams. Below are some of the athletes who will have chances to seize the spotlight over the course of 2026. As usual, the only criteria for these selections ...

It may not feature quite as much upheaval as 2025 — accounting for the House v. NCAA settlement while opening a new stadium was certainly quite a lot to handle for the Kansas athletic department — but 2026 will still be a year of change for KU. The university’s Gateway project is really ...

From dog food to pocketknives and everything in between, University of Kansas players and coaches held forth on a variety of subjects over the course of 2025. The Journal-World’s KU sports coverage captured what the Jayhawks had to say at their highest and lowest moments. Here are some of ...

It’s difficult to distill an entire year of college sports action into a single cohesive story, but the year 2025 in Kansas Athletics certainly saw many of KU’s recent coaching hires begin to bear fruit. Dan Fitzgerald (baseball), Lindsay Kuhle (women’s golf), Nate Lie (soccer) and Matt ...