For the first time in 13 years, Kansas has not been picked to finish last in a preseason Big 12 Conference football poll. Beginning with the 2011 season, the first Big 12 campaign following the departures of Colorado and Nebraska, the media poll had projected the Jayhawks in last place — generally by a wide margin — every year. That changed Thursday afternoon when KU was selected as the ninth-place team in ...
What a difference a year has made for Kansas football — at least in terms of public perception. The Big 12 Conference announced Wednesday that its 2023 preseason all-conference football team, voted on by media members, includes KU junior quarterback Jalon Daniels as its offensive player of the year. Junior running back Devin Neal, redshirt senior offensive lineman Mike Novitsky and junior cornerback Cobee ...
It's easy to forget with the near-daily developments in the conference-realignment news cycle, but Kansas hasn't actually had a new league opponent for 11 years, since TCU and West Virginia first joined the Big 12 back in 2012. It will therefore be a significant adjustment for KU to have four new schools, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston, to play annually in some sports and near-annually in others. ...
In a four-day span, the Kansas football team has won a pair of competitive recruiting battles for highly touted edge rushers. Dakyus Brinkley, a linebacker and defensive end from Katy, Texas, wrote on Twitter that “Lawrence is home” Tuesday morning as he announced his commitment to join the Jayhawks’ 2024 recruiting class. The news follows Arizona end Deshawn Warner’s announcement on Saturday, giving KU ...
The NBA Summer League is one of the most thorough preseason evaluative periods afforded by any American sport. It’s essentially like if the former Week 4 of the NFL preseason, in which teams were composed of almost exclusively rookies and last-chance veteran backups seeking the spotlight, were extended into an 11-day, five-game Las Vegas basketball extravaganza, complete with a tournament, championship and ...
The Kansas football team completed its Desert Edge High trifecta Saturday evening when three-star edge rusher Deshawn Warner announced his long-awaited commitment to join the Jayhawks. Kansas won a tight race with Oregon State, Texas and Washington for the services of the Goodyear, Arizona, native, who now becomes the third player from his high school to commit to KU for the class of 2024, thanks in large part ...