Topeka — With the arrival of Kansas' highly touted 2024 freshman class over the weekend has come at least one player who has a chance to contribute right away. Deshawn Warner, a four-star freshman from Arizona who arrives as one of the top 10 high school edge rushers in the country, has joined classmate and early enrollee Dakyus Brinkley at one of the Jayhawks' position groups with the least returning ...
An apparent injury to guard Elmarko Jackson brought an abrupt end to Kansas’ scrimmage Tuesday afternoon at the Bill Self Basketball Camp, putting a damper on the summer debut of the new-look KU basketball roster. Jackson went down hard to the ground after getting hit on his way to the rim. The Jayhawks’ trainers took a look at him for several minutes, attending to his lower leg, before head coach Bill Self ...
Topeka — After last summer saw several freshmen and transfers come and go from Kansas ahead of the 2023-24 season, head coach Bill Self is fully aware that his roster in June may not look like his roster in November. “We obviously have a little bit more depth on paper,” said Self, who has brought in three marquee transfer guards and two highly rated freshmen, without losing anyone to the transfer portal. ...
Kansas decathlete Alexander Jung has always known the importance of the mental side of track and field, but it’s become an area of particular interest for him since the first outdoor meet of his junior season, the Black and Gold Invite in Orlando, Florida, back in mid-March. Now, in the lead-up to his third appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships — Wednesday through Saturday in Eugene, Oregon — ...
AJ Storr got an up-close-and-personal look at the Kansas men's basketball team last summer, when he was playing against the Jayhawks for the Bahamas national team as part of KU's summer tour through Puerto Rico. Ten months later, many of those players he took on head-to-head are now his teammates. “It’s actually crazy to think about it," Storr said on Sunday, as part of his first meeting with reporters ...
Zeke Mayo was so young when he first put on a Kansas uniform he can hardly even remember it. “Probably around four or five years old,” he said Sunday. But one far more recent occasion wearing the crimson and blue, from his recruiting visit during his offseason stint in the transfer portal, remains fresh in his mind. “When I put on that jersey for the photo shoot, it was crazy,” Mayo said. “I looked ...