The reigning Women’s National Invitation Tournament champions return to the court Wednesday with their sights set on even greater success this year. The Kansas women’s basketball team, led by returning starters Zakiyah Franklin, Taiyanna Jackson, Holly Kersgieter and Wyvette Mayberry and incoming five-star freshman S’Mya Nichols, will host Northwestern State in the season opener Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at ...
Updated 6 p.m. Nov. 7: Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self signed an amended lifetime contract, athletic director Travis Goff announced Tuesday. The new deal makes him the current highest-paid coach in college basketball, surpassing Kentucky head coach John Calipari’s salary of $8.5 million. Between his new contract and two holdover payments that date back to his previous contract, Self will make about ...
In the fourth quarter of Kansas’ season opener against Missouri State, which started as an unexpectedly close game but developed into a 31-point blowout, the Jayhawks let redshirt sophomore kicker Owen Piepergerdes attempt a late extra point. He made it. The development wasn’t especially surprising on its face; he and Texas State transfer Seth Keller were listed as co-starters on KU’s depth chart (and ...
It didn’t take long for Hunter Dickinson to announce his presence in Allen Fieldhouse to the Kansas faithful. The preseason All-American scored the first three baskets of the game in his KU debut, progressively farther from the basket — a putback on a Kevin McCullar Jr. three-point attempt, a short-range baseline jumper and a top-of-the-key 3-pointer — to force an immediate timeout from North Carolina ...
Ames, Iowa — They didn’t overlap, but Iowa State coach Matt Campbell and Kansas coach Lance Leipold each played key roles in shaping one of the most prominent — and most completely organic — rivalries in all of 21st-century college football. They did it down in NCAA Division III. Campbell was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, the first two years that ...
Ames, Iowa — Kansas rose to the occasion and turned in a top-shelf defensive performance on the road for the first time all season, holding Iowa State to 75 rushing yards and supplying just enough offense to claim a 28-21 win. Jason Bean found Lawrence Arnold for an 80-yard touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to keep the Cyclones at arm’s length, and then Jared Casey held on to a crucial catch that ...