If for some reason you needed any more proof that this year’s Kansas basketball team isn’t going to win the Big 12 or roll into the NCAA Tournament as one of the favorites to cut down the nets in Indianapolis, you found it Saturday in the Jayhawks’ 75-68 loss at Oklahoma. If you’ve watched enough KU basketball through the years, you didn’t need a reminder that the current roster can’t dominate like ...
Late-game execution and a whole lot of free throws keyed a Sunflower Showdown victory for the Kansas women’s basketball team Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. Although Jayhawks sophomore guard Holly Kersgieter could hear Kansas State coach Jeff Mittie imploring his team in the final minutes to keep the ball away from both Kersgieter and Zakiyah Franklin, KU kept finding them. The duo combined to go 12-for-14 at ...
Even before they packed up everything they will need to bring to Lawrence for their first semester at the University of Kansas, incoming freshmen Ben Easters and Conrad Hawley got a sneak peek at their new lives as KU football quarterbacks. The Jayhawks’ pair of Class of 2021 QBs, who will both move in to their new apartments on Sunday, have been on Zoom calls in recent days with offensive coordinator and QBs ...
After a home loss on Wednesday, the Kansas women’s basketball team will try to turn it around today against rival Kansas State — and the Jayhawks might have found another deep threat to help them out. Kansas currently ranks near the bottom of the Big 12 in 3-point shooting, but graduate transfer Julie Brosseau is coming off her best shooting performance yet in a KU uniform. The 5-foot-9 guard from Quebec, ...
It doesn’t feel like all that long ago that Tyon Grant-Foster was finding ways to soar and shine off the bench for Kansas during the nonconference schedule. But as the stakes have risen and the opponents have become more daunting in Big 12 play, Grant-Foster’s minutes have dwindled. Earlier this week the 6-foot-7 junior college transfer didn’t play a second during the Jayhawks’ Big Monday game at No. 2 ...
It took a defensive stop with the game on the line, but Free State High’s boys basketball team escaped Blue Valley West with a 47-46 victory Thursday night. The Jaguars, after rallying back in the fourth quarter, had the ball with the clock winding down. But before they could get off a potential go-ahead shot, Firebirds senior guard Kris Daniels shot the gap on a pass and turned a deflection in the paint into ...