Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider and his players are doing their best to navigate a strange season. The pandemic, COVID protocols and injuries, too, have wreaked havoc with the Jayhawks’ calendar. “I’ve had teams where we were short on numbers but we still got to practice,” Schneider said, referencing how this year is much different and KU had only practiced twice in January, before ...
For shooters on Bill Self’s teams, there’s a five-letter word that’s just as bad as any four-letter swear word: “slump.” “I don’t like it if a guy were ever — a shooter — to ever admit that he’s in a slump,” Self said Friday. And to his credit, sophomore guard Christian Braun didn’t spew such coarse language as “slump” while speaking with reporters on a video call earlier in the ...
As Kansas football head coach Les Miles and his staff continue trying to rebuild the program, they hope their next incoming recruiting class will end up including some helpful walk-ons. The Jayhawks on Friday picked up the commitment of offensive lineman Hank Kelly, who was recruited as a preferred walk-on. Kelly, who is from Fayetteville, Ark., announced his decision on Twitter. In the O-lineman’s ...
If a slow second quarter left anyone wondering what was going on with the third-ranked Lawrence High boys basketball team, the Lions put all concerns to rest by blazing through the second half in a 57-31 victory at Mill Valley on Friday night. Led by 23 points from junior forward Pearse Long and 18 more from senior guard Zeke Mayo, LHS stayed unbeaten, improving to 7-0. Long opened the second half by turning ...
With only eight players available and scarce practice time in recent weeks to prepare the Kansas women’s basketball team for its first meeting this season with a ranked opponent, the Jayhawks’ upset bid fell short Thursday night at No. 21 Texas. Playing without a pair of 6-foot-2 forwards, Tina Stephens and Ioanna Chatzileonti, KU lost, 79-72, at Frank Erwin Center, in Austin, Texas. “For our eight ...
Raise your hand if you thought in December David McCormack would be playing at an All-Big 12 level in January. And be honest. When the Jayhawks’ starting big man was going 1-for-9 versus Kentucky or 5-for-12 against Creighton or 3-for-10 at Texas Tech, there wasn’t much evidence that McCormack’s junior season was going to be all that different from either of his first two years in a Kansas uniform. If ...