The Kansas soccer team will look to extend its best start to a season in program history when it welcomes Baylor to Rock Chalk Park on Thursday at 6 p.m. The Jayhawks are an unprecedented 7-0-2, including 1-0 in Big 12 play after a gritty shorthanded 1-0 victory on the road at Oklahoma State last Thursday. “It almost felt like we were a man up in some ways because we were just so unified and together,” ...
Kansas center Bryce Foster doesn’t necessarily think he’s been playing poorly, just not quite up to his standard. The Jayhawks’ lone preseason all-conference pick this year, Foster concluded 2024 as the highest-graded qualifying player at his position in the Big 12 on Pro Football Focus with a score of 75.5. The same numbers this fall would substantiate his sense that he’s experienced a slight drop-off ...
Coaching Tamecka Dixon was fun, as former Kansas assistant Pam DeCosta puts it, because she and her fellow coaches could be certain that every day, “'Meek' was going to show up and give everything that she had.” “That was very comforting as a coach,” DeCosta added, “because there was no question mark. You knew what you were getting.” And when it came time for tipoff, what the Jayhawks reliably got ...
The Kansas men's basketball team learned on Tuesday afternoon which teams it will face and when over the course of its Big 12 Conference schedule. The Jayhawks will play 18 games between Jan. 3 and March 7 as part of the slate, which was reduced from 20 games to 18 this season. KU will face Arizona, Iowa State and Kansas State both home and away; host Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, TCU and Utah; and travel ...
The Big 12 Conference on Monday afternoon announced its league schedule for women's basketball games, including the 18 contests that await Kansas this winter. As was announced in June, over the course of that schedule the Jayhawks face Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech both home and away; host BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Houston, Utah and West Virginia; and travel to face Arizona, Arizona State, ...
When Lance Leipold was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin in 1993, the Badgers faced Michigan State in Tokyo in the Coca-Coca Classic; when Leipold was head coach at Buffalo in 2019, the Bulls took on Charlotte in the Bahamas Bowl. “Guys on that team talk about those experiences for the rest of their lives,” Leipold said on Monday. The KU coach said the opportunity to create such memorable moments for ...