Las Vegas — Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels has received the same question innumerable times in recent months, from teammates, family and denizens of Lawrence: “How are you feeling?” “I try not to ask Jalon Daniels more than once a week how (he is) doing,” head coach Lance Leipold said on Wednesday at Big 12 media days. “Because I know everybody asks him that.” Daniels said he actually ...
Las Vegas — Some power-conference athletic departments have already begun to announce that they plan to share the maximum possible amount of revenue with student-athletes in the aftermath of the proposed House v. NCAA antitrust settlement, but the Big 12 does not plan to impose any sort of timeline for investment on its member schools. Commissioner Brett Yormark said at Big 12 media days on Tuesday morning at ...
Mass Street, the Kansas alumni team taking part in The Basketball Tournament for the second year in a row, will play a preliminary game against a group of Kansas State alumni as it prepares for TBT. Mass Street will take on Purple Reign at 6:30 p.m. on July 17 at Johnson County Community College, three days before both teams open up TBT in Wichita, in what the teams are calling the "Wheat State Summer ...
At last year’s Big 12 media days in Arlington, Texas, newcomers BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF were the talk of the town, as various coaches and players from the league's longtime schools faced numerous questions about the new ones joining the conference. Four more programs are making the move to the Big 12 this time around, and this week’s media days, which begin Tuesday, will likely attract an even ...
Another member of the Braun family will suit up for the Denver Nuggets — at least for a stint during the summer. Former Kansas men's basketball standout Christian Braun entered the NBA as a first-round pick in 2022, won a national championship with the Nuggets as a rookie and upped his productivity in an even more productive sophomore season. Now, his older brother Parker Braun, who spent six seasons at the ...
Head coach Brandon Schneider left no doubt on the matter in a recent interview with the Journal-World: The Kansas women’s basketball team certainly doesn’t have anyone similar to Taiyanna Jackson on this year’s roster. Indeed, Jackson, the Jayhawks’ all-time blocks leader who averaged a double-double during her KU tenure and was a WNBA draft pick, isn’t walking into Allen Fieldhouse any time soon. But ...