It’s time to close the book on a wide-ranging year of University of Kansas sports, one that saw some programs continue their upward trajectories and others begin the process of reinventing themselves completely. Here are a few of the most significant storylines that defined 2023 for KU, plus quite a few more that merit mentioning. March 9 and on: Head coach Bill Self endures health scare, misses end of ...
Freshman guard Johnny Furphy will miss Friday’s game against Yale due to “a family commitment that he had to be at,” Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said Monday night. “Certainly, we’ve known this for months, that this could potentially happen,” Self said on his “Hawk Talk” radio show. “So we will be without Johnny on Friday.” Self added that Furphy was originally supposed to leave ...
For Kansas' ebullient assistant coach Jim Zebrowski, "every day is good," as he put it. But Friday was "kind of a special day," he admitted, just as he sat down for a pre-Guaranteed Rate Bowl media availability. Just hours earlier, his son Zach had been announced as the winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy, presented to the most valuable player in NCAA Division II football. “It's so awesome, he's having a ...
Bloomington, Ind. — The offensive struggles that had hamstrung Kansas all afternoon subsided at the most convenient possible time for the Jayhawks. KU went on a 16-5 run to claim its first lead of the game over Indiana on a hook shot from Hunter Dickinson with 4:53 to go; Kevin McCullar Jr. drained a no-hesitation deep 3-pointer a minute and a half later, and the red-hot Hoosier Trey Galloway missed a ...
For the first time this season, the Kansas men’s basketball team is going on the road. That seems like a strange statement to make given that KU has already played four neutral-site games and even took on Illinois in Champaign for a charity exhibition prior to the season. But it’s true: Saturday’s clash with Indiana in Bloomington, 11:30 a.m. Central Time in Assembly Hall, will be the Jayhawks’ first ...
For three pre-bowl practices now, since he arrived in Lawrence a week ago, new Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes has been observing from the sidelines, jotting down observations in a little red notebook as he surveys the personnel and schemes he'll inherit this spring. “I told him I’m trying to get a read on him yet," head coach Lance Leipold said Friday. "He’s pretty tight to the vest. But ...