Kansas guard S’Mya Nichols was looking to begin the next stage of her college career when she kicked off her search for a place to live off campus during the 2025-26 season. But a feeling kept nagging at her “deeper down.” Interaction with upperclassmen — yes, including her, now that she’s a junior — could be a key part of the first-year experience for her younger teammates. Why would she deprive ...
Taylen Kinney, a high-ranked point guard from Newport, Kentucky, who is a target for Kansas in the class of 2026, will announce his college commitment on Sept. 28, according to a post on his Instagram account. Recently measured at 6-foot-3 and 188 pounds, Kinney averaged 20.1 points, 5.0 assists, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 steals while playing for RWE in the Overtime Elite league last season — the same competition ...
The Kansas volleyball team evened its record at 4-4 on Thursday evening with a three-set victory that featured significantly less drama than any of its seven prior matches. KU swept Florida Gulf Coast 26-24, 25-16, 25-20 in Vermillion, South Dakota, escaping a closely contested first set after squandering a pair of set points and then keeping the Eagles at arm’s length in the second and third frames. "I'm ...
With the football edition of Kansas-Missouri in the rearview mirror, next up is another sport in which meetings between the two schools have been few and far between. The KU and MU women’s basketball teams, who have plenty of history of their own dating back to the 1970s, will rekindle their own edition of the rivalry later this fall in a neutral-site matchup in Kansas City, Missouri. There was a postseason ...
It’s early in the year for a bye week, but it feels like the Kansas football team has already had the chance to learn a lot about itself. The Jayhawks saw what they could look like on both sides of the ball when functioning at near-peak capacity in early-season home matchups with Fresno State and Wagner, then got a chance to experience some considerable adversity as they entered a hostile environment at ...
Iowa State was the overwhelming pick for the top spot in this week's Big 12 power rankings. The Cyclones received 14 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Arizona State, which held the top spot after the opening week of the season, dropped to sixth after a 24-20 loss at Mississippi State. Texas Tech and TCU each received one first-place vote. The Red ...