WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU volleyball falls to defending champion Penn State in five sets

Updated 9:11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025: The Kansas volleyball team had a single match-point opportunity in extra points in the fourth set and then led 4-1 early in the fifth, but couldn't quite finish off No. 2 Penn State on Monday night and lost 3-2 (22-25, 26-24, 25-16, 28-30, 12-15) in a marathon match in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Holding a 2-1 advantage, the Jayhawks erased a 19-14 deficit and staved ...

Jayhawks held to scoreless draw by Utah State

In its first road match of the year, the Kansas soccer team was held to a scoreless draw by Utah State on Sunday afternoon at the Chuck & Gloria Bell Soccer Field in Logan, Utah. KU had scored nine total goals in its trio of season-opening victories at Rock Chalk Park, but couldn’t find the back of the net against the Aggies and their goalkeeper Taylor Rath. She had four saves on the day, including a ...

KU cruises past Fresno State for 31-7 season-opening victory

The Kansas football team may have been playing in a newly remodeled stadium on Saturday night, but it got a very familiar sort of performance from Jalon Daniels. The Jayhawks’ sixth-year quarterback was nearly perfect in the season opener against Fresno State, with more touchdown passes (three) than incompletions (two) as he went 18-for-20 for 173 yards, adding 47 more yards on the ground. It evoked the ...

KU claims first win of Ulmer era in 5-setter against Vanderbilt

After trailing by a set on a pair of occasions, the Kansas volleyball team rallied on Saturday afternoon to beat Vanderbilt 3-2 (19-25, 25-18, 24-26, 25-20, 15-4) at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Jayhawks won their season opener and earned their first victory under new head coach Matt Ulmer. In the decisive fifth set, middle blocker Reese Ptacek tallied four kills and outside hitter Grace ...

KU defense tightens up, forces mistakes in victory over Fresno State

Neither Bangally Kamara nor Kenean Caldwell knew that Fresno State quarterback E.J. Warner had actually fumbled the ball in the third quarter on Saturday. Kamara had zoomed past the Bulldogs’ freshman left tackle Brayden Walton and thrown down Warner for a sack in the first place, and Caldwell was the one who dove on the ball when it flipped out of Warner’s right hand and off into wide-open space. “I ...

Preview: Jayhawks tasked with making new stadium feel normal for opener against Fresno State

Like the rest of his teammates, Kansas center Bryce Foster is excited to play in the revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. He said he and freshman lineman Anderson Kopp were the first two players ever to run out of the new tunnel, and KU’s offensive line unit — which calls itself the MOB, or “men of Booth” — is happy to be back playing in a place where its nickname actually makes sense. ...