Coaching Tamecka Dixon was fun, as former Kansas assistant Pam DeCosta puts it, because she and her fellow coaches could be certain that every day, “'Meek' was going to show up and give everything that she had.” “That was very comforting as a coach,” DeCosta added, “because there was ...

The Big 12 Conference on Monday afternoon announced its league schedule for women's basketball games, including the 18 contests that await Kansas this winter. As was announced in June, over the course of that schedule the Jayhawks face Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech both home and ...

The Kansas women’s basketball team earned its first commitment of the 2026 recruiting cycle on Thursday night, as Mollie Ernstes, a guard from North Vernon, Indiana, announced on Instagram that she will join the Jayhawks next season. The 6-foot Ernstes averaged 22.1 points and 6.3 rebounds ...

As Kansas’ point guard, standing 6 feet tall, S’Mya Nichols has for a while taken on the unenviable task of guarding opposing teams’ power forwards. What she calls her most important area for improvement this offseason, however, will be defending against quick and shifty opposing ...

Kansas guard S’Mya Nichols was looking to begin the next stage of her college career when she kicked off her search for a place to live off campus during the 2025-26 season. But a feeling kept nagging at her “deeper down.” Interaction with upperclassmen — yes, including her, now that ...

With the football edition of Kansas-Missouri in the rearview mirror, next up is another sport in which meetings between the two schools have been few and far between. The KU and MU women’s basketball teams, who have plenty of history of their own dating back to the 1970s, will rekindle their ...