WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Quartlebaum to leave KU staff; office manager Price promoted as replacement

Director of Basketball Operations Fred Quartlebaum will leave the Kansas program in June after a dozen seasons in Lawrence, head coach Bill Self announced on Thursday morning. Quartlebaum spent seven years as the director of student-athlete development before assuming his current role in 2020. A veteran assistant coach whose first college basketball role was at Navy in 1992, he played a key role in shaping the ...

KU looks to start regional strong against Creighton

Updated 12:59 p.m. Thursday, May 29: The Kansas baseball team will get its first taste of NCAA regional baseball since 2014 as KU, a No. 2 seed, takes on No. 3 seed Creighton at 7 p.m. on Friday at Baum-Walker Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The postseason berth is the result of a memorable season that put the Jayhawks’ program back on the national stage in just its third year under head coach Dan ...

KU women's golf adds pair of all-conference transfers

Fresh off its best season in program history, the Kansas women's golf team has begun to reload in advance of the 2025-26 campaign and on Tuesday announced the signing of a pair of accomplished transfer golfers. Jillian Fatkin will enter as a sophomore after playing one season at Queens (NC), while Zoe Pinillos will be a junior and previously competed at Augusta. Both were first-team all-conference selections ...

Self eager to see House settlement finalized so Big 12 coaches can stop 'dealing in hypotheticals'

The forthcoming House v. NCAA settlement has already radically reshaped the way college basketball teams build their rosters, as the nation’s preeminent programs prepare to pay their athletes directly for the first time. But as of Wednesday, as Kansas coach Bill Self and Houston coach Kelvin Sampson sat at a podium at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando, Florida, speaking to reporters on the first day of the Big ...

KU athletes will compete in NCAA prelims beginning Wednesday

Having earned the opportunity to compete by recording some of the top marks in the nation over the course of the 2025 outdoor season, a variety of Kansas athletes will get the chance to earn spots in the national championship. Top competitors like senior men’s discus thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis and sophomore women’s pole vaulter Mason Meinershagen will get their latest chance to reach the national stage if ...

KU baseball headed to Fayetteville for NCAA Tournament, will open against Creighton

Kansas baseball is officially headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014. Though they were the last team revealed in Monday morning's selection show on ESPN2 — "You could see the guys getting restless," head coach Dan Fitzgerald said — the Jayhawks have been fairly confident in their postseason fate for weeks. Fitzgerald had a good idea they'd make it in when they sealed a series win ...