The Kansas football team has found its second running back in the 2026 recruiting class. KD Jones, a consensus three-star back from Jenks, Oklahoma, committed to KU on Thursday evening, his agent Ron Slavin confirmed to the Journal-World. “Let’s go!! Go Jayhawks,” Jones wrote in a post on X. Jones had previously considered KU as a finalist in his initial recruiting decision in March. But he ended up ...
With a high level of returning production and the addition of arguably the best recruiting class in program history, the Kansas women's basketball team was picked to finish sixth of 16 teams in the Big 12 Conference in a poll of league coaches released on Thursday morning. The Jayhawks came in 11th in a disappointing, injury-plagued 2024-25 season that ended in the first round of the Big 12 tournament, after ...
Wide receiver Cam Pickett’s first half as a Jayhawk gave a strong indication he could be one of Jalon Daniels’ top weapons throughout the 2025 season. In Kansas’ season opener on Aug. 23, Pickett scored the first touchdown in the new David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium after leaking out of the backfield on a run-pass option — and then scored again for good measure on the opposite end of the field on a ...
Texas Tech was the unanimous pick for the top spot in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. The Red Raiders, who host Kansas on Saturday, received all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Arizona State, the defending Big 12 champion, was second followed by Cincinnati, BYU and Iowa State to round out the top five. Cincinnati moved up five spots, the biggest jump of ...
Todd “Leaper” Williams has been ingrained in the Kansas football program for decades, to the point that KU’s current head equipment manager Darren Hain calls him “the connective tissue that links 55 years of players, coaches and staff together.” Williams’ connection deepened even further on Tuesday — if such a thing is possible — when KU officially dedicated the Todd “Leaper” Williams ...
The $300 million gift that Kansas Athletics received from benefactor David Booth is every bit as momentous a donation as KU made it sound in August. It is the largest gift ever given to the University of Kansas and one of the biggest ever in college athletics; it is, as athletic director Travis Goff calls it, a “fully funded endowment that’s been gifted to us” that will fuel KU for decades going forward; ...