It's already a matter of "win and you're in" for the Kansas women's basketball team.
The toughest season-ending four-game stretch of any team in the country is set to begin for the Jayhawks, who have likely secured their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in nine years.
One victory in their final four regular-season games would cement it. Kansas (19-5, 10-4 Big 12) will face No. 9 Iowa State at Allen ...
Aniya Thomas knows she still has plenty to give as her senior year draws to a close.
Her challenge, as the Kansas women's basketball team faces Texas Tech on the road on Saturday, is to keep up the momentum she gained during the win over West Virginia on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Disruptive on defense and determined on offense, Thomas scored 12 points, including 10 in the second half, in 23 minutes off the ...
Daniel Hegarty remembers the heartbreak and frustration he and his Kansas baseball teammates felt three years ago.
Hegarty, then a sophomore, thought the Jayhawks would be selected to compete in the NCAA Tournament. They went 32-26, including 12-12 in Big 12 games, and finished fifth in the nine-team conference in 2019.
But when the 64-team field was finalized, Kansas was left out. The tournament was canceled ...
Pearse Long began thinking about the future not too long ago, and that caused him to think about the past.
When he was a freshman at Lawrence High, his senior teammates used to tell Long to appreciate every day he spends playing basketball for the Lions. That time will go by too fast, they warned him, and Long didn't understand how that could be possible.
Now he does.
"It for sure did," Long said. "I'm ...
Kansas freshman Devin Neal will still play baseball this spring, even after an impressive first season in which he started eight games as a running back on the football team.
Neal, a Lawrence High grad, committed to play both sports for the Jayhawks in March 2020. He ran for team highs of 707 yards and eight touchdowns in the fall and is in line to resume that responsibility as he enters his second ...
The Kansas women's basketball team may be headed in a new direction this season, but it was two of its most veteran players who took over on Tuesday night after the Jayhawks' leading scorer collapsed.
Junior Zakiyah Franklin scored a season-high 25 points, one shy of her career high, and senior Aniya Thomas had 12 points off the bench as Kansas extended its Big 12 winning streak to six games with a 74-63 ...
