During a season in which the Kansas front four has struggled to generate pressure, its best option for getting after opposing quarterbacks might be a redshirt freshman defensive tackle. Defensive coordinator Brian Borland said as much on Wednesday about Blake Herold, unheralded out of Shenandoah, Iowa, who in rotational action has emerged as one of the Jayhawks’ most promising young players. “(I) tried to ...
For the first time since they met on a fateful Monday night in April, the Kansas and North Carolina men’s basketball teams will share the same court. “Our history is so intertwined,” KU coach Bill Self said on Thursday, “that you can’t help but respect the other because we’re not what we are, either one of us, without the other.” The traditional powerhouses KU and UNC, which competed for the 2022 ...
Benefiting from losses by Iowa State and Kansas State, Colorado moved into second place behind BYU in this week's edition of the Big 12 power rankings. Texas Tech knocked ISU, which faces Kansas this week, from the ranks of the unbeaten and K-State lost to Houston. Meanwhile, BYU, following a bye week, became the unanimous choice for No. 1, receiving all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media that regularly ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The corner flag was Kansas’ friend on Wednesday night. The Jayhawks scored two goals, one on either side of halftime, off corner kicks, and held on after conceding once midway through the second half to upset second-seeded Texas Tech 2-1 at CPKC Stadium. Raena Knust and Olivia Page netted once apiece for the Jayhawks, who both put themselves in an excellent position for an at-large bid ...
The Kansas soccer team has already experienced one rematch against a team it had just beaten, and one against a team it had lost to earlier in the regular season. Despite facing a different sort of challenge on each occasion, the Jayhawks emerged from those matches against Arizona State and West Virginia with one-goal victories. Against WVU on Saturday night, Lexi Watts drove home an overtime winner and KU ...
With several weeks to go before the end of the Kansas football season, the Jayhawks have already begun building what will be a new-look 2025 squad. Bangally Kamara, a linebacker who has played at South Carolina and Pittsburgh, will join KU next year, his agent Darren Wilson confirmed to the Journal-World on Monday morning. ESPN's Pete Thamel first reported the news. Kamara is from Akron, Ohio, and came out of ...