The Kansas football team announced on Tuesday morning its full schedule for the 2025 season, as the Jayhawks return to revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium for head coach Lance Leipold’s fifth year at the helm. Highlights of the schedule include the first game back in the Booth, on Aug. 23 against Fresno State; the renewal of the Border Showdown for football, as KU’s trip to Missouri on Sept. 6 ...
When Kansas lost to Iowa State on Jan. 15, KU coach Bill Self remarked on the Cyclones’ ability to snag “75% of every 50/50 ball.” Monday night’s rematch went the Jayhawks’ way, and so too did one particularly pivotal loose ball. With a minute and a half remaining in the first half, and KU up 31-19, ISU’s reserve big man Brandton Chatfield disrupted a one-handed pass by KU center Hunter Dickinson, ...
Both Kansas and Iowa State entered Monday night desperate for a win after two inconceivable losses apiece in the past week. In the first half, only one team’s desperation translated to making shots. The Cyclones converted just eight of their 34 attempts from the field over the course of the first 20 minutes, and took far too long to develop any sort of shooting touch in the second. In addition, despite ...
Waco, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self acted as though he had found an easy explanation for KU’s struggles in the final 20 minutes on Saturday afternoon. “I honestly believe the oranges that we ate at halftime that Baylor provided (were) probably the reason why we sucked the second half,” he deadpanned in his postgame press conference. Later, asked about giving up 60 points to Baylor in that half as KU ...
Waco, Texas — After several of its recent victories necessitated late rallies, the Kansas men’s basketball team found itself in the unfamiliar position of playing from ahead in the second half on Saturday afternoon. Perhaps the Jayhawks would have been more comfortable trying to string together another comeback. After leading by as many as 21 points in the first half, KU conceded a 26-6 run to open the ...
After the Kansas men’s basketball team suffered a blowout loss at Houston on March 9 in its final regular-season game of the 2023-24 season, KU head coach Bill Self said he regretted having super-senior Kevin McCullar Jr. play in the game. McCullar had been dealing off and on for the prior two months with a bone bruise to his knee that kept him out of action frequently and hampered him when he was able to ...