Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider announced the hirings of two new assistants on Friday morning: Jerise Freeman and Jayci Stone. Both are Kansans with power-conference coaching experience. They replace Morgan Paige, who was recently hired as the head coach at Loyola-Chicago, and Karyla Knight. Returning coaches Brock McGinnis and Patrick Schrater have also received the new titles of associate ...
To be clear, I’m not saying Kansas is not going to get Tyran Stokes. That caveat has to go at the top because Stokes’ recruitment has been the sort of high-scrutiny, high-stakes affair in which the mere brand of athletic apparel he wears in an Instagram story can send three fan bases into a frenzy. So a published article considering a worst-case scenario needs to acknowledge that it is not in fact ...
The Kansas Athletics board of directors on Thursday evening approved a resolution to replace its current $35 million line of credit with a new $50 million line. The refinancing was authorized through a special digital meeting of the board that was conducted via email between Monday and Thursday. Athletic director Travis Goff presented the motion for the new credit line, which was seconded by KU Chief Financial ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team earned its second transfer commitment of the offseason, this time from within the Big 12. Former Colorado guard Erianna Gooden signed with KU, the team announced on social media on Thursday afternoon. Gooden is a 6-foot point guard from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who played in all 34 games as a freshman with the Buffaloes and has three years of eligibility remaining. She ...
Jaden Nickens announced on Thursday night that he is leaving Kansas and switching to playing exclusively basketball. His departure brings to an end a tenure at the university in which Nickens arrived as a two-sport athlete but never appeared in a game for either KU’s football or men’s basketball teams. “After much reflection and prayer, I have decided that I will be putting the football down and parting ...
To achieve a 30-win season for the first time as a collegiate head coach, Jennifer McFalls admits, has taken a bit longer than she would have thought. KU hired McFalls, a longtime Texas assistant, in the fall of 2018. The Jayhawks struggled early and got disrupted, like so many programs, by the pandemic; by 2023 she had them on the right track, won a Big 12 tournament game for the first time and earned a ...