WRITER: Benton Smith

KU's defensive 'energy and intensity' keys 2nd half rally in win over TCU

A stellar start to the fourth quarter allowed the Kansas women’s basketball team to put an end to its four-game losing streak with an 82-72 win over TCU on Sunday at Allen Fieldhouse. Freshman forward Ioanna Chatzileonti scored 11 of her career-high 17 points in the fourth. But the Jayhawks won the game on the defensive end of the floor, where TCU missed 13 of its first 16 shot attempts in the decisive ...

KU women's basketball team set to play third game in six days

Finally at the finish line of a busy week, the players on the Kansas women’s basketball team figure to have their conditioning tested Sunday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse, when the Jayhawks play their third game in six days. Some reshuffling of the schedule became necessary for KU when it was unable to play several games in early January due to roster issues caused by injuries and COVID protocols. The ...

Jayhawks going around in circles and running out of time

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2021/feb/06/332002/ A top-five team a little more than a month ago, the Jayhawks now are going around in circles and about to lose their ranking altogether. Throughout a tumultuous start to 2021 for the Kansas basketball team, an early February trip to West Virginia began to look like a milepost for the entire season. The Jayhawks were dealing with many issues atypical of Bill ...

Les Miles: Signing touted WR Quaydarius Davis 'tremendously important' for KU football

While Kansas football coach Les Miles feels upbeat about the entirety of the Jayhawks’ latest signing class, he couldn’t downplay the significance of topping it off on National Signing Day with the addition of four-star receiver Quaydarius Davis. “It’s tremendously important,” Miles said during a phone interview with the Journal-World of KU signing its highest-rated recruit ever. “Our players are ...

KU offensive coordinator Mike DeBord signed 2-year contract with Jayhawks

The latest offensive coordinator brought in by Kansas football coach Les Miles, Mike DeBord signed a two-year deal that will pay him $600,000 a year. The agreement, which expires in February of 2023, calls for Kansas Athletics Inc. to pay DeBord — an offensive analyst at Michigan in 2020 and an O.C. for the San Diego Fleet in the AAF in 2019 — an annual base salary of $225,000, as well as $375,000 a year ...

KU football bringing back 8 seniors from 2020 roster

Although a number of seniors from the Kansas football program’s 2020 roster decided to transfer elsewhere, the Jayhawks are set to bring back eight players for an extra senior year. KU coach Les Miles confirmed with the Journal-World on Thursday that offensive linemen Chris Hughes, Malik Clark and Adagio Lopeti, receiver Kwamie Lassiter II, linebacker Kyron Johnson, safeties Ricky Thomas and Nate Betts and ...