Updated 2:28 p.m. Monday, June 2: Kansas coach Dan Fitzgerald’s first two seasons at the helm suggested incremental progress each year, but in 2025 the Jayhawks took a significant leap forward. Relying on a team essentially built from scratch after the 2024 MLB Draft derailed some of KU’s plans for its 2025 roster, Fitzgerald and his staff led one of the best seasons in program history, which included ...
Topeka — Kansas coach Bill Self knows that a lot of recruiting discussions are predicated on the reputations of the players involved. He also knows that the reputations of the particular transfers KU has added during the 2025 offseason might create “an appearance that we haven’t gotten as highly respected guys, nationally,” as in other years. But that doesn’t mean he’s in any way down on this ...
A total of 11 Kansas track and field athletes are headed to the outdoor national meet in Eugene, Oregon, following the weekend’s results in NCAA preliminary competition. Joining decathletes Alexander Jung and Tayton Klein, who had already qualified by virtue of their scores earlier in the season, were Ashton and Bryce Barkdull (men’s pole vault), Jacob Cookinham (men’s shot put), Ebba Cronholm (women’s ...
Fayetteville, Ark. — A memorable season for the Kansas baseball team concluded with a forgettable trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks left Baum-Walker Stadium without a postseason win, as they fell 4-3 to fourth-seeded North Dakota State (21-33) on Saturday afternoon. With the Bison nursing a one-run lead for the final third of the game, reliever Danny Lachenmayer pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings to ...
Fayetteville, Ark. — When Jackson Hauge entered the portal following a severe concussion, not everyone believed he could help a team the way he ultimately did the 2025 Kansas Jayhawks. “I had one guy telling me to come help his team out,” Hauge said, “and I had another guy on the other side telling me I was going to be a .200 hitter at the next level. Really thankful for the chance that I got, and ...
Fayetteville, Ark. — The Kansas baseball team has come from behind to win on 26 occasions this season, accounting for a solid 60% of its overall win total on the year. The Jayhawks had never come back from seven runs down, though, and Creighton imposed that big a deficit on KU in the span of a single inning on Friday night at Baum-Walker Stadium, turning a 3-3 tie into a 10-3 blowout. In the sixth inning, ...