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The Kansas Jayhawks got ready for the regular season with their last of a whopping five exhibition games, polishing off Division II Fort Hays State 73-55 at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night.
Center Hunter Dickinson rode a strong first half to a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Kevin McCullar Jr. was his team’s leading scorer for the second exhibition in a row ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold said Monday that he admired how his Iowa State counterpart Matt Campbell steered his squad through distractions back in the summer — when the Cyclones saw an ever-growing number of their student-athletes disciplined in an ongoing sports gambling investigation — and still put the team on track for a good season (5-3, 4-1 Big 12 Conference so far).
“A sign of an excellent head ...
It didn't take long for guard Nick Timberlake to get reminded of Sunday's perimeter-shooting disparity between Kansas and Illinois. Joe Dooley, the KU director of student-athlete development, made sure it was fresh in Timberlake's mind as he worked on his shooting back in Lawrence on Tuesday.
"That was the first thing that he came over and said to me, pretty much," Timberlake said Tuesday, "was, ‘They got ...
The Kansas football program has received a ranking in the College Football Playoff’s top 25 teams for the first time in its history.
The CFP’s 13-member selection committee unveiled its first rankings of the season Tuesday night live on ESPN, and it will continue ranking teams on a weekly basis until it selects its ultimate top four participants in early December. KU comes in at No. 21 in the first edition ...
Champaign, Ill. — Neither former Illinois coach Bill Self nor former Michigan center Hunter Dickinson experienced an ideal return to the State Farm Center, but at least Self got to reunite with eight or nine of his former Illini players from the three years he spent in Champaign and received a pretty warm reception in his old stomping grounds.
Dickinson, however, came out of the gate in Sunday’s exhibition ...
Champaign, Ill. — The Kansas men’s basketball team, making its unofficial return to the court for an exhibition match at Illinois to benefit victims of the Maui wildfires, trailed nearly wire-to-wire and fell 82-75 to the Illini Sunday evening.
KU, the preseason No. 1 team in the nation, was within striking distance throughout but managed to hold an advantage for just one cumulative minute, entirely ...