Kansas tight end DeShawn Hanika's teammates have given him plenty of grief about his status as the oldest one on the team. Hanika, 25, has been on the receiving end of nicknames like “grandpa,” “old-timer” and his personal favorite, “The Godfather.” He gets it from his fellow tight ends, from quarterbacks, from wide receivers, and even from the KU defense: “When we’re going 11-on-11, they love ...
The sixth-seeded Kansas men's basketball team will face No. 14 UCF on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. to open the Big 12 tournament, after the Knights knocked off No. 11 Utah 87-72 on Tuesday night at the T-Mobile Center. Forward Keyshawn Hall, the Big 12's leading scorer, led UCF with 23 points against the Utes, while guard Darius Johnson added 20 more. The Knights, who improved to 17-15 on the year and beat Utah for ...
Kansas senior Lauren Clark had already been named the Big 12 Conference's golfer of the month after winning the PDI Intercollegiate in Orlando, Florida, and the Wisconsin Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona, over the course of February. She did one better on Tuesday, finishing off her third straight individual victory by carding a 6-under 66 to finish 12-under at the Yale Invitational West in La Quinta, ...
Kansas center Hunter Dickinson on Monday afternoon received first-team All-Big 12 honors from a poll of the league's head coaches, making him one of three Jayhawks to earn some kind of distinction. This is the second straight year Dickinson has been named to the first team. This season, the fifth-year senior center, who is coming off a 33-point career-high showing in his final game at Allen Fieldhouse, has ...
Kansas head coach Bill Self said on Monday that KU itself is his sleeper team heading into the Big 12 tournament. “This year’s been — and last year too — probably been more inconsistent going into the tournament than maybe we have in past years, but yeah, I’m excited,” Self said. “I think we still have enough gas in the tank to play our best moving forward. And if we do that, then it could make ...
The Kansas softball team's 20-game road trip to start the 2025 season is at an end, and the Jayhawks are coming home series winners after a 12-2 six-inning victory at Baylor on Sunday afternoon. Junior second baseman Emma Tatum went 2-for-5 with a home run that tripled KU's lead in the fourth inning and a bases-clearing double that put the Jayhawks in run-rule territory in the sixth. Pitchers Lizzy Ludwig, ...