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 ...
A fourth quarter resurgence had the Jayhawks on the brink of a comeback Wednesday night at West Virginia, before one of the hottest teams in the country sent Kansas back home with a 69-61 defeat. A crossover and drive to the hoop from sophomore guard Zakiyah Franklin could’ve put KU’s women’s basketball team within two points of No. 19 WVU with 33 seconds remaining. But a slew of Mountaineers collapsed to ...
After hitting an offensive lull recently, members of the Kansas women’s basketball team know the balanced scoring that carried them to a win over TCU can’t be a one-off. Ahead of the Jayhawks’ road trip to face No. 19 West Virginia, they bounced back from a three-game stretch in which they were only putting up 52 points a game to post 82 versus the Horned Frogs on Sunday. “We needed a night where we ...
Twenty games into a strange, at times hard to watch, Kansas basketball season, a Big Monday victory over Oklahoma State shined a spotlight on David McCormack, as well as the entire KU team’s trajectory. As the regular season winds down and February soon turns into March, these Jayhawks will only go as far as McCormack’s broad shoulders can take them. That much was evident in a 78-66 Kansas win, even when ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles and newly hired coordinator Mike DeBord still have some time to lay the foundation for the Jayhawks’ new offense before the players get their first cracks at running it during practices. After missing out on spring football completely due to the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago, KU is set to have its first offseason practice of 2021 on March 23, Miles told the Journal-World in a ...
There won’t be an abundance of Brent Dearmon buyout money available for Kansas football to use when it’s paying the man Les Miles hired to replace his former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. According to a settlement agreement between Kansas Athletics Inc. and Dearmon, who left while under contract with the Jayhawks to become the O.C. at Middle Tennessee State, the amount the former KU ...