In a game filled with ugly basketball, one man in a Kansas uniform helped keep the Jayhawks’ Saturday road win at Iowa State at least relatively watchable. If you happened to zero in on Jalen Wilson and all that he did in a 64-50 victory at Hilton Coliseum it distracted from the other unpleasantness. The Jayhawks needed every bit of Wilson’s 22 points, 10 rebounds and four assists in 39 minutes, too, ...
The Jayhawks couldn’t pull off a season sweep in the Sunflower Showdown this year, as the Kansas women’s basketball team fell, 77-66, at Kansas State on Saturday. A couple of brutal offensive quarters to open the afternoon rivalry road game proved costly for KU, which produced just nine points in both the first and second quarters, enabling the Wildcats to put an end to their 10-game losing streak and pick ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles was in the middle of talking up the program’s 2021 signing class when unprompted he brought up a particular incoming freshman who is already on campus. “The Missouri lad,” Miles would go on to call the young quarterback during a recent phone interview with the Journal-World. “Conrad Hawley, I just want you to know something,” Miles said of the three-star QB from ...
Cooper Jackson’s scoring carried Free State High’s boys basketball team much of Friday night in a marquee Sunflower League battle with Shawnee Mission East. But it was Jackson’s defense that put the Firebirds over the top in a 78-75 overtime victory at FSHS. The Firebirds had just taken a one-point lead in OT following a basket by Mozae Downing when Jackson jumped a Lancers dribble handoff. The steal ...
With only seven games left in the regular season, the Kansas women’s basketball team may need to rely on its defense down the stretch, beginning with a Saturday trip to Manhattan to take on rival Kansas State. KU earlier this week held an opponent under 70 for the first time in six games, and the Jayhawks did that on the road at No. 19 West Virginia, albeit in defeat. “I think we just stayed with it, stuck ...
Though he only logged 19 minutes in his return to the Kansas lineup Thursday night, freshman Bryce Thompson played a starring role in making basketball look easy again for the Jayhawks in a 97-64 dismantling of Iowa State. With Thompson out due to a broken right finger since Jan. 12, KU hadn’t blown anyone out in even longer. And after missing the 6-foot-5 guard with play-making skills and strong defensive ...