After it qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season for the first time in nearly a decade, the Kansas women's basketball team has conceived a significantly stronger nonconference schedule that coach Brandon Schneider hopes should better prepare the Jayhawks for the postseason. That schedule, released Wednesday, includes a home game against Texas A&M and road games against Arizona, Nebraska and Saint ...
Kenny Logan Jr. is still gaining attention for what he accomplished last season. The Kansas senior, whose 113 tackles were the most in the conference by a safety, was selected to the preseason All-Big 12 team on Wednesday. He was the only player on the Jayhawks recognized by the conference, which named 29 players, including five defensive backs, to a first and a second team. Logan, an All-Big 12 second-team ...
The Kansas football team added another offensive tackle to the mix when Dominick Puni, formerly of Central Missouri, decided to transfer and join the Jayhawks. Puni, from St. Charles, Missouri, is not a recent addition for coach Lance Leipold and his staff. Rather, he decided to transfer to Kansas on March 7, two days after he took an official visit to the university and attended the men's basketball game ...
Eriq Gilyard has always been an old-school, smash-mouth, run-stuffing middle linebacker. He can't wait to be that again. Gilyard shuffled between schemes and responsibilities at UCF last season and was rotated and then squeezed out of the Knights' 4-2-5 defense under first-year head coach Gus Malzahn and his pair of defensive coordinators. By October, the two-year starter with 197 career tackles had enough ...
Breeley Oakley, who played the last two seasons at Howard junior college in Big Spring, Texas, has joined the Kansas women's basketball team as a walk-on. Oakley, a 5-foot-9 wing, will be a junior for the Jayhawks next season. She went to Byron Nelson High in Trophy Club, Texas, and is the daughter of Chad Oakley, a high school teammate and close friend of coach Brandon Schneider. Schneider said Oakley "could ...
Logan Brantley, an outside linebacker from Englewood, Colorado, became the latest player to commit to play football at Kansas when he did so on Friday. Brantley, who is 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, chose the Jayhawks' scholarship offer over one from Washington State, though Colorado, Minnesota, Arizona, Army, Air Force and others also have extended them. "It feels great," Brantley said. "I feel like a lot of ...