WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Griffen enters portal after lone season at KU

A year after arriving at Kansas from Alabama, Rylan Griffen is back in the transfer portal. The junior wing, who has one year of eligibility remaining, entered the portal on Monday morning, a KU Athletics official confirmed to the Journal-World. Griffen, who had started and averaged 11.2 points per game for the Crimson Tide's 2024 Final Four team, including an NCAA Tournament hot streak, never quite reached ...

Peterson says he told Self he's not worried about recent portal entries

Just like everyone else, Darryn Peterson has seen that a lot of Kansas players are entering the transfer portal. He’s just not that concerned about it, as he said on Monday, recounting a conversation that same day with head coach Bill Self. “He asked me was I worried about it,” Peterson told reporters at the McDonald's All-American Game media day in Brooklyn, New York. “I told him, ‘Nah,’ and his ...

Leipold discusses future of spring football as KU approaches new Fan Appreciation Day

By announcing on March 20 that it would not host its usual Spring Showcase this year, the Kansas football team became part of a broader national conversation about the ongoing evolution of spring football practices. And while head coach Lance Leipold reiterated on Saturday KU’s initial rationale for making the change — logistical conflicts at Rock Chalk Park, which he said he should have been more aware of ...

KU came highly recommended for transfer linebacker Sipp

Joseph Sipp Jr. still would have come to Kansas even if he hadn’t heard about the school from JB Brown. “Just coming here, stepping on ground, stepping on campus when I took my visit, it just felt like home from the get-go,” Sipp said on Saturday. There’s no denying, though, that the chance to learn about the merits of KU from his ex-roommate — Sipp and Brown played together as linebackers at Bowling ...

Passmore plans to enter portal

Updated 1:42 p.m. Monday, March 31: Kansas wing Rakease Passmore plans to enter the transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Journal-World on Sunday night. The news constituted the third portal entry for KU in a three-day span, and guards David Coit and Rylan Griffen closely followed on Monday morning . It also means there is a high chance the Jayhawks will lose the entirety of their 2024 signing class ...

KU diver Lai earns variety of honors to conclude memorable season

Kansas diver Shiyun Lai has completed one of the most decorated seasons in her program’s recent history. Lai reached sixth place in the 3-meter dive at NCAA nationals in Federal Way, Washington, with a score of 357.40, and seventh place in the 1-meter dive at 309.10. In doing so, she claimed the highest individual finish for a Jayhawk since Michelle Rojohn won the 3-meter event in 1996 — and her ...