Former Kansas football star running back Pooka Williams will be back in Lawrence this week, hoping to prove himself as an NFL prospect at the Jayhawks’ pro day on Friday. Due to the pandemic, there won’t be an NFL Scouting Combine in 2021, making the pro days hosted by individual college football programs all the more important for the players trying to make it to the next level. The NFL still extended ...
After coming out on the wrong end of more tight games lately than they would like to remember, players on the Kansas women’s basketball team will try again to snag that elusive win Wednesday night at Iowa State. In three of their past four games, the Jayhawks felt as if they were on the verge of putting an end to their losing streak, which has reached six games. Following a 72-68 Saturday home loss to West ...
In the business of college basketball, whether your team has been flexing all season or took a detour on the struggle bus at some point, it better be trending upward when March rolls around, because what transpires in the postseason is what everyone will remember anyway. That’s why there is more intrigue surrounding Kansas now than at any point during this strange 2020-21 season. The Jayhawks are coming off ...
The Kansas football coaches picked up another three-star prospect for the Jayhawks’ 2022 recruiting class Monday night, when Texas prep Jacobe Chester announced his decision to commit to KU. Chester, listed as an athlete by Rivals, is a potential defensive back at the college level, and joined three other high school juniors in the class. All four are rated as three-star talents. Assistants Emmett Jones and ...
A fourth quarter comeback had the Kansas women’s basketball team within striking distance of an upset against No. 18 West Virginia on Saturday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse. But even on a day when the Jayhawks held Mountaineers star guard Kysre Gondrezick to 6-for-20 shooting from the field, her late game 3-pointer helped WVU escape with a 72-68 win. KU’s chances of knocking off the Mountaineers all but ...
It took a lot of heroes in some fire red throwback Kansas uniforms for the No. 17 Jayhawks to knock off No. 2 Baylor inside Allen Fieldhouse Saturday night. So of course KU’s signature 71-58 victory needed a blockbuster level plot twist. On a night when KU big man David McCormack annihilated the Bears inside, the Jayhawks had to go without him during a crucial stretch late in the second half, when McCormack ...