Kansas coach Lance Leipold has been impressed by what he’s seen from away fans during the month of October. UCF's Acrisure Bounce House, he said on Monday, was a “very impressive game-day atmosphere,” and Texas Tech's Jones AT&T Stadium was “the loudest place we’ve played out this year.” Now he wants to see that same fervor replicated at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Saturday when ...
The second of Kansas’ unprecedented three bye weeks of 2025 has arrived, and with the Jayhawks seven games into the year and four games into the conference slate, this is the closest thing they’ll get to a halftime break this season. In the broadest possible results-based sense, the first seven games didn’t feature too many surprises. At rival Missouri and at cash-rich, high-intensity Texas Tech always ...
It’s hard to know what to make of the Kansas defense, even with a fairly large sample size to consider seven games into the 2025 season. The Jayhawks’ young secondary has looked better than expected for much of the season, but got torn apart in a home loss to Cincinnati. The defensive front continues, as expected, to serve as the strength of the team, and the linebackers have been even better than ...
Former Kansas and Lawrence High guard Zeke Mayo has signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, his agency ADS Sports Management announced on Instagram on Friday evening. “Just the beginning for Zeke, who will surely keep turning heads and prove the doubters wrong,” the agency wrote in its post, which Mayo also shared on his own Instagram story. Terms of his contract with Cleveland were not disclosed. ...
Friday night’s men’s basketball portion of Late Night in the Phog featured an extended riff on the reality show “Love Island" that culminated in Kansas coach Bill Self selecting not just one of his players but all 16 — the entire team. “I love this team,” he said in the skit. In a speech to assembled fans, setting the tone for the season ahead, he emphasized that the sentiment he expressed wasn’t ...
The 15th-ranked Kansas volleyball team extended its win streak to four matches with a road sweep of Houston, 25-14, 25-23, 25-16, on Thursday night at the Fertitta Center. The Jayhawks scored the first eight points of the match and overcame a 15-10 deficit in the second set on their way to the decisive victory. "When we are having fun on the court, that is when we play our best," KU coach Matt Ulmer said in a ...