Your turn, Texas Tech. On the verge of a top-10 national ranking after an impressive road win against Utah, the Red Raiders moved into the top spot in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. Texas Tech received 13 of a possible 16 first-place votes and 245 points from a panel of media who regularly cover the Big 12. Iowa State, which held the No. 1 spot the previous two weeks, received two first-place votes and ...
The Kansas men's basketball team learned on Tuesday afternoon which teams it will face and when over the course of its Big 12 Conference schedule. The Jayhawks will play 18 games between Jan. 3 and March 7 as part of the slate, which was reduced from 20 games to 18 this season. KU will face Arizona, Iowa State and Kansas State both home and away; host Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, TCU and Utah; and travel ...
Coaching Tamecka Dixon was fun, as former Kansas assistant Pam DeCosta puts it, because she and her fellow coaches could be certain that every day, “'Meek' was going to show up and give everything that she had.” “That was very comforting as a coach,” DeCosta added, “because there was no question mark. You knew what you were getting.” And when it came time for tipoff, what the Jayhawks reliably got ...
When Lance Leipold was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin in 1993, the Badgers faced Michigan State in Tokyo in the Coca-Coca Classic; when Leipold was head coach at Buffalo in 2019, the Bulls took on Charlotte in the Bahamas Bowl. “Guys on that team talk about those experiences for the rest of their lives,” Leipold said on Monday. The KU coach said the opportunity to create such memorable moments for ...
The Big 12 Conference on Monday afternoon announced its league schedule for women's basketball games, including the 18 contests that await Kansas this winter. As was announced in June, over the course of that schedule the Jayhawks face Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech both home and away; host BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Houston, Utah and West Virginia; and travel to face Arizona, Arizona State, ...
Kansas is rotating through various players to occupy its fourth team captain spot over the course of the 2025 season, and of course it made sense for head coach Lance Leipold to pick middle linebacker Trey Lathan — a West Virginia transfer — during the week the Mountaineers were in town. But that was just one factor in Leipold’s decision to place Lathan alongside Jalon Daniels, Justice Finkley and Bryce ...