Director of Basketball Operations Fred Quartlebaum will leave the Kansas program in June after a dozen seasons in Lawrence, head coach Bill Self announced on Thursday morning. Quartlebaum spent seven years as the director of student-athlete development before assuming his current role in 2020. A veteran assistant coach whose first college basketball role was at Navy in 1992, he played a key role in shaping the ...
The forthcoming House v. NCAA settlement has already radically reshaped the way college basketball teams build their rosters, as the nation’s preeminent programs prepare to pay their athletes directly for the first time. But as of Wednesday, as Kansas coach Bill Self and Houston coach Kelvin Sampson sat at a podium at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando, Florida, speaking to reporters on the first day of the Big ...
Fresh off its best season in program history, the Kansas women's golf team has begun to reload in advance of the 2025-26 campaign and on Tuesday announced the signing of a pair of accomplished transfer golfers. Jillian Fatkin will enter as a sophomore after playing one season at Queens (NC), while Zoe Pinillos will be a junior and previously competed at Augusta. Both were first-team all-conference selections ...
Having earned the opportunity to compete by recording some of the top marks in the nation over the course of the 2025 outdoor season, a variety of Kansas athletes will get the chance to earn spots in the national championship. Top competitors like senior men’s discus thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis and sophomore women’s pole vaulter Mason Meinershagen will get their latest chance to reach the national stage if ...
It would always have been a long shot for the Kansas baseball team to host an NCAA regional, even after the Jayhawks swept regular-season champion West Virginia, and the slim chance that remained entering the Big 12 Championship evaporated when the Jayhawks lost 11-1 to TCU in Friday’s semifinal. TCU then proceeded to lose to Arizona in extra innings in Saturday’s title game, giving the Wildcats a trophy in ...
Kansas baseball is officially headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014. Though they were the last team revealed in Monday morning's selection show on ESPN2 — "You could see the guys getting restless," head coach Dan Fitzgerald said — the Jayhawks have been fairly confident in their postseason fate for weeks. Fitzgerald had a good idea they'd make it in when they sealed a series win ...