Welcome to the party, Houston. One of the biggest surprises in the Big 12, the Cougars moved into the top five of this week’s power rankings for the first time this season after a road upset against Arizona State. In coach Willie Fritz’s second season, the Cougars are 7-1 and ranked in the Associated Press and coaches' polls for the first time in more than three years. The top three teams remained ...
Clint Bowen has, at various points in his career, served the Kansas football team as a defensive back, graduate assistant, special teams coach, tight ends coach, running backs coach, safeties coach, co-defensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, linebackers coach, interim head coach and assistant head coach. On Saturday, he will take on a new role: opponent. A year removed from coaching at Lawrence High ...
Playing without star guard Darryn Peterson, and deploying a variety of unconventional lineups to conclude its brief exhibition schedule, the Kansas men’s basketball team prepared for the season ahead by beating Division II foe Fort Hays State 71-35 on Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. “Well, I didn’t think it was great by any stretch," KU coach Bill Self said. "I thought we were dull, boring, not a lot ...
Fifth-year senior guard Melvin Council Jr. took the lead for Kansas’ offense on Tuesday night in the absence of star guard Darryn Peterson, and finished with 16 points, six assists and plenty of praise from coach Bill Self. The 23rd-year head coach essentially said postgame that he felt Council was the only player bringing significant energy to the Jayhawks’ performance in their 71-35 exhibition victory ...
The Kansas football team has lost the defensive back who would have been its highest-rated player in the 2026 recruiting class. JJ Dunnigan, who originally committed to KU in January and then affirmed in May that he had shut down his recruitment, announced on Monday that he has decommitted. "After much prayer and thoughtful conversations with my family, I've decided to decommit from the University of Kansas," ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team will engage in its final tuneup ahead of the 2025-26 men’s basketball season when it welcomes a Division II foe, Fort Hays State, to Allen Fieldhouse. Tipoff for the exhibition game is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, and it will be televised on ESPN+. It hasn’t been all that long since Fort Hays State visited Lawrence, as the Tigers made the trip east for an exhibition just ...