WRITER: Benton Smith

KU women's basketball coach Schneider optimistic about team's future

At the conclusion of a challenging season, Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider left Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday once again disappointed about a defeat, but at least in relatively good spirits about how his team competed. The Jayhawks lost to TCU in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament, 75-72, giving KU its seventh loss of the year by four or fewer points. According to Schneider, though, ...

Jayhawks still have some hope at conclusion of rough week for KU

One of these years — one would hope — the Kansas basketball team will actually get to experience a complete weekend at the Big 12 tournament again. The pandemic improved to 2-0 against the Jayhawks in Kansas City, Mo., with Friday’s news of a positive COVID-19 test on the KU roster, a year to the day after the pandemic canceled the 2020 conference tournament. According to the picture head coach Bill ...

3 potential candidates with rising stock since KU football's last coaching search

The University of Kansas football program is in the market for a new head coach so often — the position currently is vacant for the fifth time since Mark Mangino was forced out in 2009 — that some of the potential candidates for the job this time around might even seem like retreads from 2018 or 2014 at this point. But there are some intriguing potential candidates with college head coaching experience ...

KU names Emmett Jones the Jayhawks' interim football coach

At least some of the uncertainty surrounding the Kansas football program’s future dissipated Thursday, as Emmett Jones was named the Jayhawks’ interim head coach. The team’s receivers coach and passing game coordinator was chosen for the role by KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and interim Athletic Director Kurt Watson. Jones expressed his gratitude for being given the opportunity, calling this “a critical ...

Schneider hoping for consistency out of KU at Big 12 tournament

Ahead of his team’s trip to the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo., Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider had one specific, yet wide-ranging, word in mind when asked about areas where he would like to see his team improve. “Consistency,” Schneider said, in the days leading up to KU’s first round matchup with TCU tonight at Municipal Auditorium. That’s a sentiment the sixth-year KU ...

Mitch Lightfoot plans on keeping KU in win column while David McCormack is out

Kansas had to play without its best big man in its postseason debut Thursday night at the Big 12 tournament. But at least the Jayhawks had one true post player to throw at Oklahoma — and a confident one at that. Before the Jayhawks even tipped off at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo., senior forward Mitch Lightfoot told head coach Bill Self, “Coach, I’m going to play good.” Bold words for a backup ...