WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU to host super regional against OU beginning Saturday after Sooners stun Georgia Tech

Updated 2:44 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2026: In an improbable turn of events, there will in fact be a Lawrence Super Regional. Oklahoma’s Dayton Tockey hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to stun Georgia Tech 8-7 in Game 7 of the Atlanta Regional on Monday, eliminating the No. 2 national seed and sending the Sooners to a matchup with their former conference rival. The NCAA announced details of the super ...

Reeves' health to be one of KU's 'biggest keys'

TOPEKA — The availability of Charleston transfer Christian Reeves will change the identity of the Kansas men’s basketball team in one important way, to the point that head coach Bill Self called it “one of the biggest keys we have.” “When he gets healthy, God, we’ll go from being a small team to one of the biggest teams around,” Self said on Monday at the Topeka Jayhawk Club's Otto Schnellbacher ...

Jayhawks thrive in new roles after unexpected lineup change

The absence of Cade Baldridge from Kansas’ lineup for the first time all season — in a season that has now stretched to 61 games — was far from a certainty until mere minutes before first pitch against Arkansas on Sunday night, as Baldridge was dealing with an injury. That meant that both Dariel Osoria and Max Soliz Jr. had limited time to prepare for new roles. For Osoria, it meant playing second base, ...

KU baseball team reckons with historical significance of latest milestone

Kansas head coach Dan Fitzgerald found himself transported to another time and place in the early innings of Sunday’s regional final against Arkansas. Another regional final, specifically, when he was an assistant at Dallas Baptist at the Fort Worth Regional in 2021 and the Patriots fell behind 5-0 against Oregon State in a winner-take-all Game 7. “I had one of those flashback moments of like, ‘I’ve ...

Rahe continues to come through for KU in regional play

Even before Kansas kicked off the first-ever Lawrence Regional, pitcher Boede Rahe promised that KU was going to play the exact same way it had all season — which would in turn mean that Rahe himself would bring the same level of fire to his closer role. Through two days of the regional, Rahe’s emotions have indeed been on display, in large part because KU’s offense has set him up for a pair of six-out ...