Since linebacker Jon Jon Kamara arrived on campus a year ago, the Kansas football coaches have pulled out some creative one-liners about what he used to look like as a high school player. When Kamara first made it to Lawrence as a freshman in the fall of 2024, head coach Lance Leipold remarked that in the photos on his online recruiting profiles, “He looked like he could have played in the Little League World ...
Johnny Thompson Jr. didn’t know he had seen Jalon Daniels play in high school until after Thompson arrived at Kansas. It didn’t take long for the young running back to put two and two together and realize that the senior quarterback he had watched playing in high school for Lawndale, back when Thompson was a freshman in 2019, was the one now leading his college offense. “Ended up doing some research, and ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self weighed in on the recent addition of Canadian guard Nginyu Ngala in a press release issued on Tuesday afternoon, after Ngala had signed with KU on Friday. Self said that KU filled the last roster spot it had remaining by bringing in Ngala, a 5-foot-10 point guard from Montreal, Quebec, who most recently played at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. “(We) ...
As soon as Boden Groen suffered the shoulder injury that cost him his senior season at Rice, he knew he’d be back playing again the following year. “Once that happened, I was already mentally getting ready for this time,” Groen said on Tuesday. The tight end from Santa Ana, California, who attended powerhouse Mater Dei High School, only played four games for the Owls in 2024, meaning he was able to ...
Tre White didn’t necessarily have any preconceived notions about where he might land when he entered the transfer portal looking for his fourth school in four years. But when Kansas was one of the first programs that came calling, it seemed fitting. “Then it just kind of registered with me and my people — like, full-circle moment,” White said. The circle took nearly six years to close. In the summer ...
In three straight years, the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament has exited in the round of 16, and in each of the last two the former Jayhawks have come just three points away from a trip to the quarterfinals. Twice their vanquisher was Heartfire and once it was Team Colorado, but on all three occasions this modern incarnation has suffered third-round losses. Instead of facing off with the ...