New Kansas assistant coach Jacque Vaughn’s contract will pay him a base salary of $360,000 per year over the course of two seasons with the program. The contract was released to the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon in response to a Kansas Open Records Act request. KU announced the hiring of Vaughn, a former Jayhawk legend and NBA head coach for the Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets, on May 21, more than a ...
Updated 9:38 a.m. Friday, June 20, 2025: The return of Kansas baseball is about eight months away after the Jayhawks’ memorable season ended early in the NCAA Tournament, but fans might be able to get something vaguely resembling it in St. Cloud, Minnesota, this summer. Four members of next year’s KU team — returning star first baseman Brady Ballinger, a pair of JUCO transfers in infielder Tyson LeBlanc ...
The Kansas men’s basketball roster, newly refreshed though it may be, will still almost certainly look quite different when the season tips off at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 3. KU has made a habit in recent years of adding players as late as August, such as the likes of Johnny Furphy and David Coit, and head coach Bill Self has said he’s looking for another big man and a hot-shooting guard. KU’s recent ...
The Kansas football team acquired a new piece for its future secondary when Robert Reddick announced his commitment on Wednesday evening. Reddick, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound cornerback from Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, picked KU out of a top five that also included Illinois, Northern Illinois, Purdue and Toledo. The three-star prospect had visited Toledo earlier in the spring and made the trip to KU last ...
When Lilly Meister entered the portal in late March after three seasons with the Indiana women’s basketball team, she was looking for a sense of familiarity. “The transfer portal is hard, because in high school you have all these years to be recruited and get to know everybody,” she said on Monday on the “Hawk Talk” radio show. “When you’re in the portal you get a month, maybe a little more than ...
Nolen Ellison, a former Kansas men’s basketball player who went on to a lengthy career as an education official, died on Thursday. He was 83. KU Athletics announced the news in a press release on Tuesday, citing information from the Ellison family. Ellison, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, who attended Wyandotte High School, arrived at KU in 1959 on a basketball scholarship and played alongside and lived ...