Olathe native Julian "Juju" Marks announced his commitment to play football at Kansas on Sunday afternoon, kicking off what figures to be a busy month of visits and acquisitions for KU as Lance Leipold and his staff shape their 2025 recruiting class. Marks, a 6-foot-8, 275-pound offensive tackle who has previously attended Saint Thomas Aquinas and will play his senior year at Olathe South, is the first ...
Incoming freshman Rakease Passmore watched Kansas' spree of offseason acquisitions just like everyone else. At one point, the Jayhawks had four off-ball guards and wings — Riley Kugel, Zeke Mayo, AJ Storr and Rylan Griffen — committed to join the team for Passmore's first season in Lawrence. But Passmore, despite his similar positional fit, didn't waver in his pledge to come to KU. “I’m always ...
When Zach Clemence returned to Kansas last offseason following a brief stint in the transfer portal and an ill-fated commitment to attend UC Santa Barbara, the agreement with head coach Bill Self was that Clemence would take a redshirt to work on his game, then emerge as a better player in 2024. But, as KU saw key members of an already thin team miss time due to injury, did Clemence ever think about burning the ...
One of the most potent aspects of the Kansas receiving corps under Lance Leipold and Terrence Samuel is that even with the same players remaining in fairly well-defined roles for years at a time, any player can have a breakout game at seemingly any moment. In the 2022 Liberty Bowl, Luke Grimm had 10 catches for 167 yards after combining for nine catches for 91 yards in his previous three appearances. At ...
The Kansas men's track and field team tied for 10th among 71 scoring schools at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, with four athletes picking up first-team All-American nods as top-eight finishers. Pole vaulter Clayton Simms, a junior, was KU's top performer, as he became the national runner-up on Wednesday by clearing 5.62 meters, just short of Kentucky senior Keaton ...
As the identities of college basketball conferences continue to shift wildly from one season to the next, it’s pretty clear that the Big 12 Conference will still have a lot to say about the result of the 2024-25 men’s basketball season. Both CBS and ESPN have KU at No. 1 in early preseason rankings and three other Big 12 schools — Houston, Iowa State and Baylor — in the top seven. The league didn’t ...