For the first time in 25 years, and just the fourth time in its history, the Kansas soccer program will have a new coach next year. The Jayhawks’ longtime leader, Mark Francis, the longest-tenured coach in Big 12 Conference history, announced his retirement Tuesday evening, one day after Francis completed his final campaign at the helm. All told, Francis accumulated an overall record of 262-200-49 since he ...
Updated 1:36 p.m. Monday: The Kansas football program waited decades for its first taste of ESPN's "College GameDay." Now, the Jayhawks have lured both that show and its Fox competitor to Lawrence in the span of two seasons. For the first time, "Big Noon Kickoff" will come to KU when the Jayhawks host No. 6 Oklahoma on Saturday. The show will lead into the 11 a.m. Central Time (noon Eastern) broadcast on ...
The Kansas volleyball team continued its strong start to Big 12 Conference play Sunday afternoon, knocking off TCU at Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth by a score of 3-1 (18-25, 25-14, 25-16, 25-15). The Jayhawks bounced back from an uncharacteristic first set in which they hit just .129 and cruised through the remainder of the match. They never trailed again after going down 2-1 early in the second game on a ...
Kansas City, Mo. — At T-Mobile Center on Wednesday for his first Big 12 Conference media day since he left Oklahoma in 2006, Houston coach Kelvin Sampson wasted no time winning the hearts of the conference’s reporters with a protracted canine analogy. The Big 12 head coaches had a meeting at which Sampson said he was warily sizing up his competition like a dog in a dog park. “It used to be you could look ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self says a characteristic of the best teams is a clear separation between their fifth- and sixth-best players. As good as Self thinks this year's Jayhawks can be, they don't have that quite yet. KU has returning veterans KJ Adams Jr., Dajuan Harris Jr. and Kevin McCullar Jr. and transfer center Hunter Dickinson locked into four of its five starting spots. But the ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The charge signal — that hand-behind-head, opposite-way point that can be so demoralizing for one basketball team and exhilarating for the other — will be a much rarer sight at Big 12 Conference games this season. Big 12 Coordinator of Officials Curtis Shaw said at the league’s men’s basketball media day Wednesday that the conference intends to call far more blocking fouls than ...