After seeing his team fall behind significantly in three of its previous four games, Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider hopes his Jayhawks can put an end to the trend when they face Oklahoma State Saturday afternoon. KU found itself in a 10-point hole after one quarter of play at TCU on Jan. 17. Then the Jayhawks trailed by 13 early in the second quarter versus Kansas State on Jan. 23 — a ...
As Middle Tennessee State football made the official announcement Friday that it had hired Brent Dearmon away from Kansas to become the Blue Raiders’ offensive coordinator, KU head coach Les Miles expressed his dismay to be losing one of his top assistants. “While we are disappointed to be losing Coach Dearmon, we fully support his desire to move closer to home and support his family in their time of ...
A Friday night thriller that seemed like it might last well into Saturday's early hours finally came to an end at Mill Valley High when Free State guard Cooper Jackson delivered two of the most important plays of the night in a 66-65 quadruple overtime win. With the game tied at 65, Free State sought to take the final shot, just as it had at the close of the first and second OT periods. Jackson attacked off a ...
Under a week out from National Signing Day, a one-time Kansas football recruit is officially out of the mix for the Jayhawks. Garfield Lawrence, a three-star defensive end in the Class of 2021 who had committed to KU this past November, announced Thursday his decision to play for Houston. Listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, Lawrence recently had picked up scholarship offers from Texas and Boston College, as ...
Sure, Kansas put an end to its un-blue blood like three-game losing streak Thursday night against TCU. But what transpired at Allen Fieldhouse didn’t come close to resembling the type of turning point in the season the Jayhawks needed. Senior Marcus Garrett spoke earlier in the week of looking at the remainder of the schedule as a new season. And this matchup had all the elements to be the reboot game KU had ...
Bill Self will still stare down and/or bark at a player who just blew a defensive assignment in transition in the heat of a game. But the Kansas basketball coach finds himself becoming less stern in his overall approach during his 18th season with the Jayhawks. In normal, non-pandemic times, Self might have lit into his team and called out specific individuals as a motivating tactic with KU at 4-4 in the Big 12 ...