The Kansas football team had a few recruits visiting campus during its first scrimmage of spring football on Saturday. Not too long after the practice session ended, one of them was ready to commit to head coach Les Miles and the Jayhawks. Will Huggins, a 6-foot-6 tight end at Shawnee Mission South, joined KU’s 2020 recruiting class, informing Miles and his staff of his plans to sign with the ...
Salt Lake City — If this was a different era of college basketball, the one in which Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl learned the game as an Iowa assistant, under Tom Davis, Pearl would have his Tigers applying defensive pressure all over the court, baseline to baseline. Between rules changes over the years and the game evolving, Pearl has figured out he can’t take Auburn’s defense to the extreme without ...
Salt Lake City — There was no collective gasp inside Vivint Smart Home Arena Thursday afternoon, because there weren’t enough Kansas basketball fans on site for the Jayhawks’ NCAA Tournament opener way out west for their reaction to overtake the air space. But let’s go ahead and assume the diehards watching back in the Midwest gulped hard enough for it to reverberate throughout Lawrence. Devon Dotson, ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/mar/20/329017/ Salt Lake City — On Thursday afternoon at Vivint Smart Home Arena, seven members of the Kansas basketball team’s rotation will experience the NCAA Tournament — and all the nerves and pressure and highs and lows that accompany it — for the first time. It was two years ago, in Tulsa, Okla., that Mitch Lightfoot found out exactly what that ...
A two-time high school state champion in Nebraska, Luke Kluver announced this week his plans to join the men’s golf program at the University of Kansas. According to the Omaha World-Herald, Kluver had been verbally committed to golf for the University of Nebraska since his sophomore year at Norfolk High. Since then, Kluver also gained scholarship offers from Oklahoma State and KU. Kluver announced his ...
Salt Lake City, Utah — When Northeastern dropped its first game of January and the basketball team’s record dipped below .500 for the season, it was unclear which direction the Huskies were headed. But Bill Coen’s team has lost just twice since its 3-point road setback at Hofstra on Jan. 5, and enters its NCAA Tournament first-round matchup with Kansas not only trending way up, but also benefiting from ...