Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald, by his own admission, was a bit hoarse when he entered the Allen Fieldhouse media room for a press conference on Wednesday morning. He attributed it to the unrelenting noise made by the resurgent KU baseball fan base. “It’s because I’m trying to get our guys’ attention on the field,” Fitzgerald said. “Those guys are so loud.” The Jayhawks welcomed Omaha to ...
In keeping with her ongoing rise to national prominence, Kansas' standout guard S'Mya Nichols received a highly selective honor from the Big 12 Conference on Tuesday afternoon. For the second season in a row, Nichols is a first-team all-league selection. The sophomore from Overland Park, who stepped into a leadership role as KU's primary scoring option this year after the departures of several longtime program ...
Houston — When Houston stunned Kansas in double overtime at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 25, L.J. Cryer’s offensive production had little to do with it. The guard from Katy, Texas, scored just nine points in 48 minutes on that day. When the two teams faced off again on Monday night, Cryer had 18 by halftime. As the rest of his teammates shot an uncharacteristic 5-for-26 (19.2%) from the field, with no ...
Houston — In Kansas’ last three games, forward KJ Adams and center Hunter Dickinson have combined to supply 58% of the Jayhawks’ points. That’s a welcome development for KU from a certain perspective — Adams has averaged 17 points per game in his last three contests after reaching that mark just once in the prior 25 — but it also speaks to more salient and concerning developments: simultaneous cold ...
The precise ways in which the Kansas football team fell short in 2024 have informed the ways it approaches the 2025 season — sometimes very directly. “There’s no secret that we didn’t have much success in the fourth quarter last year,” strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said on Sunday. “So you come up with unique ways to get creative and emphasize those things.” Indeed, the Jayhawks let late lead ...
The Haskell Indian Nations University women’s basketball team knocked off top-seeded Northern New Mexico 57-52 in the Continental Athletic Conference championship game on Sunday night at Coffin Sports Complex, earning an automatic bid to the NAIA Tournament after a one-year absence from the competition. The Fighting Indians’ season continues, as does the tenure of head coach Adam Strom, who has committed to ...