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 ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald has said that the baseball world took notice of his program’s strong showing in the Big 12 tournament last May, and of the slew of Jayhawks selected in the MLB Draft following the season. At first it was difficult for Fitzgerald himself to reflect on the season in quite the same fashion, after the way KU had given up its lead over conference champion Oklahoma with a trip ...
Lawrence native and former All-American linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. is headed back to Kansas to serve as a defensive analyst for the KU football program, the Journal-World has confirmed. Dineen spent the past two years as the outside linebackers coach at Purdue, where he worked under a fellow former Jayhawk linebacker in Kevin Kane. He had come with Kane from Illinois and previously SMU. On the field, Dineen ...
Jack Utz, a tight end from Platte County High School in Missouri, announced on Tuesday afternoon his intention to join the Kansas football team as part of its class of 2026. A three-star prospect who stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 225 pounds, Utz becomes KU's 11th commitment in the class. That number currently leads the nation, according to Rivals' recruiting rankings, a metric that provides one indication of how ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self believed he was going to have his point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. for Tuesday night’s game against UCF — the same way he had Harris in the fold for the prior 159 games, including 98 in a row as a starter. “We thought he was playing this morning,” Self said. “We thought he was fine this morning and obviously he goes out to shootaround and couldn’t do anything ...
The first Kansas men’s basketball game without Dajuan Harris Jr. in the lineup since March 7, 2020, featured some never-before-seen sets of five Jayhawks. As KU coach Bill Self searched for answers, there were groups without point guards. There were groups with three big men. One lineup late in the first half even fulfilled both those constraints. Two constants amid much of the turnover were Hunter Dickinson ...