WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU women's basketball adds transfer Harshaw

The Kansas women's basketball team continues to flesh out its roster and to attract local players in the transfer portal. Three days after luring Kansas City, Kansas, product Sania Copeland, formerly of Wisconsin, the Jayhawks earned the commitment of Andover native and Creighton transfer Brittany Harshaw on Thursday morning. Harshaw, who played three sports at Andover Central High School, spent the 2023-24 ...

Early KU results from Kansas Relays include pole-vault win, lots of 5K success

Junior Avery Brooks’ victory in the women’s unseeded pole vault was the one of the biggest individual highlights of the day for the Kansas track and field team Thursday, as the Kansas Relays opened — after a two-hour delay to 2 p.m. — with a slate of all-collegiate action. Brooks, a native of Georgetown, Texas, cleared 3.65 meters, beating out the next four competitors by a full 30 centimeters. She did ...

Grimes hopes increased trust leads to more aggressive KU offense

When Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes asked his players how they felt the spring went — his first with the program — wide receiver Lawrence Arnold had an answer, gleaned from his days spent watching from the sidelines. "I feel like we played with a lot more energy as spring progressed," Arnold said, as relayed by Grimes. "I felt like early on we were just kind of flat, and then as spring went on we ...

KU track and field set for ever-growing Kansas Relays

Bringing 5,000 athletes to Rock Chalk Park last year for the 100th edition of the Kansas Relays, a long-awaited return for the historic event, was an accomplishment in and of itself. But Tim Byers, the meet director entering his second Relays in charge, has apparently managed to top that for meet No. 101. “Tim just informed me the other day that we have 5,200 athletes, so it’s grown,” KU track and field ...

How newest NBA Jayhawks Dick and Wilson fared in their rookie year

Toronto Raptors rookie wing Gradey Dick mustered his best scoring performance of the season in its final days, as he went off for 24 points — including six 3-pointers — last Wednesday. That game happened to come against the Brooklyn Nets and Dick’s former Kansas teammate Jalen Wilson, who played 20 minutes that night. It was the third and final NBA meeting between the two during the 2023-24 campaign, and ...

Furphy declares for draft while retaining college eligibility

Updated 10:20 a.m. Wednesday: Kansas freshman guard Johnny Furphy announced Tuesday night that he intends to declare for the 2024 NBA Draft while leaving the door open for a potential return to college basketball. In a statement released by the KU men's basketball program on its X account, Furphy wrote in part, "I am so grateful to Coach Self and the whole team at KU for the opportunity they gave me to be a ...