The arm injury that knocked super-senior defensive lineman Sam Burt out of the Kansas football starting lineup minutes into the season opener will actually end up extending the former walk-on’s college career. KU head coach Lance Leipold made it known Tuesday that Burt plans to use this as a redshirt season and return for one more year in 2022. A team captain for the Jayhawks (1-8 overall, 0-6 Big 12), Burt ...
The No. 3-ranked Kansas basketball team lived up to its preseason billing in its season debut Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the Jayhawks handled Michigan State, 87-74. A four-point game five minutes into the second half of the Champions Classic matchup in New York, the Jayhawks began to pull away as two of their starting guards led a surge. Senior guard Ochai Agbaji at times was unstoppable, ...
The Kansas football team’s quarterback room isn’t the only one experiencing shrinking numbers late in the season. The Jayhawks lost not only No. 2 QB Miles Kendrick, but also second-string running back Torry Locklin to season-ending lower leg injuries — both the result of hits the KU skill players took during the team’s home loss to rival Kansas State this past Saturday. While injuries to both Kendrick ...
The Kansas football offense lost two key reserves to season-ending injuries this past weekend, head coach Lance Leipold revealed on Monday. During the Jayhawks’ loss to Kansas State, both redshirt senior quarterback Miles Kendrick and redshirt sophomore running back Torry Locklin suffered “lower leg injuries,” Leipold said. Neither will be healthy enough to play during the final three weeks of the ...
In the midst of a one-sided home loss to rival Kansas State on Saturday, the Kansas football team had to play three quarterbacks — including sophomore Jalon Daniels, who is supposed to redshirt this year — before the Jayhawks even got to halftime. Starting QB Jason Bean got hit hard to close the second series of the afternoon in what would become a 35-10 win for the Wildcats at David Booth Kansas Memorial ...
After his Kansas football team only scored one touchdown on nine possessions against rival Kansas State on Saturday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, KU head coach Lance Leipold needed one word to assess the play of the offense. “Subpar,” Leipold said, following the Wildcats’ 35-10 win in front of an announced crowd of 30,611. “Offensively, you know again, it sputtered,” Leipold said after ...