The 11 Kansas athletes who will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Oregon’s famous Hayward Field beginning on Wednesday run the gamut in terms of experience. On one side are veterans like decathletes Alexander Jung and Tayton Klein, discus thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis and distance runner Aaliyah Moore, who have been to nationals before, understand the grandeur and scale of the meet and ...
In a previous column I spent an unjustifiable amount of first time, then space, essentially trying to project what ultimately amounted to two fictional regular-season nonconference games for the Kansas men’s basketball team. KU then proceeded to announce the rest of its nonconference schedule on June 4 before I could even publish the remainder of my predictions — for all the world knows now, they could have ...
Not much of Kansas’ nonconference men’s basketball schedule came as a surprise. The vast majority of the Jayhawks’ prominent matchups had been previously reported, including the cornerstone of the home schedule — UConn — mere hours before KU officially announced the slate, and games like North Carolina, Duke and N.C. State were public much further in advance. That said, the schedule still possesses ...
When the new members of the Kansas women’s basketball team were trying on their new gear, head coach Brandon Schneider heard one of them say, “It’s finally great to see my name on the back of the jersey.” Incoming freshman Jaliya Davis, an Overland Park native who starred at Blue Valley North High School, was eager to affirm when she spoke to reporters on Tuesday that she was in fact the player in ...
Updated 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 6: The Kansas athletic department is on track to be “right around budget” for the fiscal year 2025 that concludes at the end of June, Chief Financial Officer Pat Kaufman told members of the board of directors on Friday. It’s a significant shift from KU Athletics’ initial budget projection for the year, approved in November, that had predicted revenue falling short of ...
Just as Kansas fans familiarized themselves with a whole new group of Jayhawks at the start of the 2025 season — which proved to be a rewarding pursuit, given how successful the fresh group of recruits ultimately was — they will have to do the same ahead of 2026. The extent to which this particular roster will be revamped depends, as always, on the MLB Draft in mid-July. The unexpected professional signings ...