The Kansas football team traveled to Texas Tech for its road finale without defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot, a result of the assistant coach testing positive for COVID-19, head coach Les Miles revealed on Saturday. With Eliot self-isolating back in Lawrence, safeties coach Jordan Peterson filled in as defensive coordinator in what proved to be the Jayhawks’ best showing of the season, in a 16-13 loss. “I ...
Even on a day when the Kansas defense delivered its best performance of the year, creating four takeaways Saturday at Texas Tech, the Jayhawks’ offense couldn’t help secure the team’s first victory of 2020. KU failed to convert on a pair of fourth downs in the final four minutes in Lubbock, Texas, leading to a 16-13 defeat. “It was disappointing,” starting quarterback Miles Kendrick said during his ...
The Kansas football team’s starting center most of the year, Api Mane has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal as a graduate transfer, according to reports Friday from recruiting sites Rivals and 247 Sports. A 6-foot-3, 334-pound senior, Mane already had opted out of the rest of the season, ahead of the Jayhawks’ home loss to TCU this past weekend, KU confirmed. Mane posted a note about his decision ...
— Kansas (0-8 overall, 0-7 Big 12) at Texas Tech (3-6, 2-6) • 11 a.m. kickoff, Jones AT & T Stadium • Game-time forecast: 49 degrees, partly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 2 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live coverage and follow our team on Twitter: @KUSports, @BentonASmith, @mctait and @SJacksonLJW Keys for Kansas 1. Find your QB for the ...
When the season began, it appeared Amauri Pesek-Hickson might have to wait a year or two before becoming more involved with the Kansas football offense. But eight games into the schedule, the Jayhawks needed the freshman to make his first career start. All the former fourth-string running back did was become the first Jayhawk in 2020 to produce a 100-yard rushing game. Pesek-Hickson, a 6-foot, 235-pound back ...
In a primetime battle between two traditional college basketball powerhouses, a redshirt freshman guard who lacked the size and wingspan of most of the players on the court helped carry Kansas past Kentucky. Dajuan Harris, all 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds of him, didn’t even make a field goal for the Jayhawks in a 65-62 win Tuesday night at the Champions Classic. But everything else the backup point guard did made ...