The Kansas softball team didn't just win a series against a ranked opponent for the first in 19 years; it finished off a sweep. KU took down Baylor, which had been ranked No. 13 in the country by the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll, three times at Arrocha Ballpark over the weekend: 3-2 on Friday, 2-0 on Saturday and 1-0 on Sunday. The victories earned the Jayhawks some national attention of their own; they opened ...
After a turbulent conclusion to its season, the Kansas men's basketball team has learned its opponent for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. KU, which earned a No. 4 seed, will face No. 13 Samford at Salt Lake City's Delta Center on Thursday at 8:55 p.m. Central Time. The game will be televised on TBS. “Everybody’s going to say they have a hard draw, I think we got a hard draw," KU coach Bill Self ...
The hours are ticking away until Sunday's selection show. The two Kansas basketball teams will enter the NCAA Tournament heading in opposite directions — the KU men’s team slumping to a degree it rarely has this century, the KU women’s team having closed the season winning nine of its last 11 games and vaulting itself into postseason contention — but they will find out their fates all the same Sunday ...
Spring practice is just a few days away for the Kansas football team, and head coach Lance Leipold has already suggested it could be pretty light at times for some of KU’s more experienced players. And the Jayhawks have quite a few this time around, particularly on offense, where ESPN ranks them 16th in the nation in returning production. Some less heralded players will have a chance to make an impression ...
When Nate Lie first got introduced as the Kansas soccer coach in December, he expressed not only an admiration for Kansas City’s role in the current soccer landscape but an optimism for its future prospects. “We are in the soccer capital of America, or maybe 45 minutes down the road from it,” he said then. “And I don’t think that that is changing any time soon. If anything, it’s going to be more ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The evening of Nov. 10 feels long enough ago on its own, but the Kansas men’s basketball team’s performance that night against Manhattan almost feels like it took place in another lifetime. KU shot 10-for-26 from deep for a solid, though not necessarily spectacular, 38.5%, as freshman guard Johnny Furphy connected on three 3s and scored in double figures for the first time as a Jayhawk, ...