Kansas had a tough time closing out its first two conference games against TCU and UCF; one resulted in a last-second win, one in a crushing loss on the road. Back home Saturday, Kansas found a second-half run it hadn’t been able to string together in either of its first two games of conference play. In fact, it found two. The Jayhawks used 11-2 and 9-0 stretches in the later stages of Saturday’s game to ...
Hunter Dickinson has established himself as one of the preeminent college basketball players in a variety of domains over the course of four seasons. Blocking shots, though, has not necessarily been his calling card. At Michigan, the center averaged about a block and a half per game; so far in his first season at Kansas he had been about half a block worse, prior to Saturday and hadn’t rejected a shot in ...
No. 3 Kansas and No. 9 Oklahoma both found themselves casualties of a wild week in college basketball. Within a matter of hours Wednesday night, each school lost on the road to an unranked Big 12 Conference foe: OU at TCU, KU at UCF. Those unexpected results came on the heels of No. 2 Houston’s loss at Iowa State on Tuesday, to say nothing of the chaos unfolding in other conferences: No. 1 Purdue couldn’t ...
Orlando, Fla. — The dream of playing professional football has taken a pair of recent Kansas standouts far afield — working out in a conference rival’s facilities, wearing unfamiliar numbers and even getting ready to play new positions if needed. Quarterback Jason Bean and linebacker Craig Young — who sported Nos. 5 and 52, respectively, at Hula Bowl practice Wednesday in UCF’s Nicholson Fieldhouse ...
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels painted a grim picture of his battle with a back injury in a YouTube interview released Wednesday, describing intense and sudden pain that at times made him unable to walk. In Daniels’ most comprehensive account of his injury since the back tightness befell him in early August — relayed in an episode of the series “Pucker Up with Joely Live” — the quarterback also ...
Kansas running back Devin Neal will return for his senior season. Neal announced the decision in a social media video posted Thursday afternoon. His plan to return to KU was first reported by ESPN on Dec. 26, just before KU's victory in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. The video reflects on Neal's decision to stay in his hometown of Lawrence to help build up the KU program. "I've never shied away from anything, ...