The precise ways in which the Kansas football team fell short in 2024 have informed the ways it approaches the 2025 season — sometimes very directly. “There’s no secret that we didn’t have much success in the fourth quarter last year,” strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said on Sunday. “So you come up with unique ways to get creative and emphasize those things.” Indeed, the Jayhawks let late lead ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team had two opportunities to tie the game against Texas Tech or at least draw within a point in the final 30 seconds on Saturday night. First, point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. threw the ball out of bounds 11 seconds into the shot clock, angling out toward the perimeter as center Hunter Dickinson cut inside away from the ball. Dickinson tried to accept blame for leaving Harris “out ...
For the first time in seven years and the second time in Bill Self’s 22 years as head coach, Kansas has lost three games at Allen Fieldhouse in a single season. On a day when they celebrated the building’s 70th anniversary, the unranked Jayhawks got outgunned by No. 10 Texas Tech, as the Red Raiders exploited KU’s post double-teams and suspect ball-screen defense to hit 10 3-pointers in the first half. ...
Updated 12:22 p.m. Sunday, March 2: Kansas senior guard Zeke Mayo posted on X on Saturday a series of four images depicting threatening and racist messages he had apparently received from various accounts on Instagram in the wake of the Jayhawks’ loss to Texas Tech that afternoon. Two of the messages referred to him with the N-word and two wished for him to die. “I 100% deserve all the criticism in the ...
Back-to-back losses on a disastrous road trip in mid-February sent the Kansas men’s basketball team plummeting in national rankings, but the Jayhawks’ much-discussed “new season” mentality in the days since has earned them a pair of wins against Oklahoma State and Colorado. “I’ve always been taught that (you) don’t let one become two or two become three, and extend positive momentum and limit ...
After a break between commitments that was long only by the standards of the Kansas coaching staff’s fast-paced winter, the Jayhawks secured the services of another 2026 football prospect. Tyren Parker, from Shawnee Heights High School in Tecumseh, announced his commitment to KU on Wednesday afternoon. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound three-star wide receiver picked the Jayhawks over a trio of Big 12 schools in Iowa ...