Kansas didn’t encounter a lot of resistance in its 46-7 victory over Wagner last Friday, but one of the “disappointments of the game,” as head coach Lance Leipold put it, arrived late in the first quarter. Redshirt freshman linebacker Jon Jon Kamara, making his first career start at weak-side linebacker with teammates Jayson Gilliom and Bangally Kamara recently injured, got ejected for targeting when he ...
Arizona State begins this season in the same spot as it ended last season – at the top. The defending Big 12 champions are No. 1 in the first Big 12 power rankings, receiving 11 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Iowa State picked up four first-place votes and TCU received the other after an impressive win over North Carolina. Kansas began the ...
The 2025 matchup between Kansas and Missouri has been on the books since 2020, which means it’s been on the horizon for the entire duration of Lance Leipold’s tenure as KU’s head coach. He’s just started to hear about it a little more often recently. “You know, you try to push it off until it’s the game week,” Leipold said on Monday. “I guess now, we got to address it, right? Last Friday, ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold didn’t have to go far to find good information about Missouri quarterback Beau Pribula. Andy Kotelnicki, who spent 11 seasons working for Leipold as his offensive coordinator across stops at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Buffalo and KU, “raved about him as a person, as a quarterback,” when the two coaches spoke this summer, Leipold said. In his first year away from Leipold, Kotelnicki ...
Kansas fans who do not make the trip to Columbia, Missouri, to see the long-awaited renewal of the Kansas-Missouri rivalry in person will still have an opportunity to watch the game in a pumped-up stadium environment. KU Athletics is hosting a watch party for the Border Showdown game on Saturday at the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. The event begins at 1:30 p.m., an hour before kickoff ...
The Kansas volleyball team has found every conceivable way to take a match to five sets in the first two weekend tournaments of its season, but it has now lost three such matches in a row. After rallying from down 2-0 in the match and scoring the first three points of the final set, the 14th-ranked Jayhawks allowed nine straight and ultimately fell 3-2 (17-25, 21-25, 25-21, 27-25, 12-15) to No. 12 Creighton at ...