WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Clark wins 3rd straight title

Kansas senior Lauren Clark had already been named the Big 12 Conference's golfer of the month after winning the PDI Intercollegiate in Orlando, Florida, and the Wisconsin Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona, over the course of February. She did one better on Tuesday, finishing off her third straight individual victory by carding a 6-under 66 to finish 12-under at the Yale Invitational West in La Quinta, ...

KU will face UCF to open Big 12 tournament

The sixth-seeded Kansas men's basketball team will face No. 14 UCF on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. to open the Big 12 tournament, after the Knights knocked off No. 11 Utah 87-72 on Tuesday night at the T-Mobile Center. Forward Keyshawn Hall, the Big 12's leading scorer, led UCF with 23 points against the Utes, while guard Darius Johnson added 20 more. The Knights, who improved to 17-15 on the year and beat Utah for ...

KU has chance to elevate level of play in Big 12 tournament, beginning against Utah or UCF

Kansas head coach Bill Self said on Monday that KU itself is his sleeper team heading into the Big 12 tournament. “This year’s been — and last year too — probably been more inconsistent going into the tournament than maybe we have in past years, but yeah, I’m excited,” Self said. “I think we still have enough gas in the tank to play our best moving forward. And if we do that, then it could make ...

Dickinson named first-team all-league; Mayo, Harris earn additional honors

Kansas center Hunter Dickinson on Monday afternoon received first-team All-Big 12 honors from a poll of the league's head coaches, making him one of three Jayhawks to earn some kind of distinction. This is the second straight year Dickinson has been named to the first team. This season, the fifth-year senior center, who is coming off a 33-point career-high showing in his final game at Allen Fieldhouse, has ...

KU softball routs Baylor 12-2 to claim victory in first Big 12 series

The Kansas softball team's 20-game road trip to start the 2025 season is at an end, and the Jayhawks are coming home series winners after a 12-2 six-inning victory at Baylor on Sunday afternoon. Junior second baseman Emma Tatum went 2-for-5 with a home run that tripled KU's lead in the fourth inning and a bases-clearing double that put the Jayhawks in run-rule territory in the sixth. Pitchers Lizzy Ludwig, ...

Mayo's strong bounce-back performance featured sharp scoring, passing

Early in the season, Kansas guard Zeke Mayo found a way to contribute even if he didn’t have his shot. For example, Mayo earned a direct shout-out from Michigan State’s Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo when he managed to give the Jayhawks 10 rebounds and seven assists on a night when he went 2-for-8 from the field — playing a direct role in one of KU’s biggest wins of the year, 77-69 over the Spartans on ...