Kansas men’s basketball assistant coach Chase Buford is leaving the team after one season, as head coach Bill Self said on Friday that Buford has accepted an assistant coach job with the NBA’s Denver Nuggets. “It’s a great gig for him, and happy for him, and he did a really good job here,” Self said. Buford, a former walk-on player under Self from 2007 to 2010, departs Self’s coaching staff after ...
The Kansas football team debuted a new “Whitehawk” uniform in a video posted on social media on Friday morning. According to KU’s post, the white alternate jersey will be worn at some point in October, a month in which the Jayhawks have away games at UCF on Oct. 4 and at Texas Tech on Oct. 11. The Whitehawk is essentially an inverted variant of the Blackhawk uniform that KU debuted in 2023 against ...
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said on Friday that he did not consider stepping away for health reasons due to his hospitalization in July. But as he recalled, he did ask his surgeon at one point, “What do you think? Is this something that should change my way of thinking on stuff? “He said, ‘Do you love what you do?’” Self said. “And I said yes, and he said, ‘Well, keep doing ...
Kansas athletic director Travis Goff said on Thursday that KU’s “confidence has increased dramatically” in beginning construction on the second phase of its Gateway project following the 2025 football season, after a pair of key developments that took place over a pivotal two-day span for the athletic department. On Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners approved a package of financial incentives worth ...
When it comes to Jim Zebrowski calling plays from the coaching booth, Kansas football team already has proof of concept. “It worked pretty well in the bowl game,” Zebrowski said on Thursday. Indeed, when Zebrowski — then KU’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach — served as the interim offensive coordinator in the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl, the Jayhawks put together one of their best ...
Touting it as one of the biggest single donations in the history of college sports, the University of Kansas athletic department announced on Wednesday morning that it had received a gift of $300 million from donor David Booth. The donation, which is also the largest ever to the university, includes $75 million to help jump-start the upcoming second phase of KU’s Gateway project. Plans for that phase include ...