One of the most potent aspects of the Kansas receiving corps under Lance Leipold and Terrence Samuel is that even with the same players remaining in fairly well-defined roles for years at a time, any player can have a breakout game at seemingly any moment. In the 2022 Liberty Bowl, Luke Grimm had 10 catches for 167 yards after combining for nine catches for 91 yards in his previous three appearances. At ...
The Kansas men's track and field team tied for 10th among 71 scoring schools at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, with four athletes picking up first-team All-American nods as top-eight finishers. Pole vaulter Clayton Simms, a junior, was KU's top performer, as he became the national runner-up on Wednesday by clearing 5.62 meters, just short of Kentucky senior Keaton ...
As the identities of college basketball conferences continue to shift wildly from one season to the next, it’s pretty clear that the Big 12 Conference will still have a lot to say about the result of the 2024-25 men’s basketball season. Both CBS and ESPN have KU at No. 1 in early preseason rankings and three other Big 12 schools — Houston, Iowa State and Baylor — in the top seven. The league didn’t ...
Updated 12:38 p.m. Thursday: After taking the Kansas women's basketball team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years, with a Women's National Invitation Tournament title in between, head coach Brandon Schneider has been rewarded with a contract extension. Schneider, who has led the program since the 2015-16 season, will now be under contract through 2027-28. "Coach Schneider continues to ...
Kansas guard Elmarko Jackson tore his patellar tendon and will need surgery and a year's worth of recovery, KU men's basketball coach Bill Self announced Wednesday afternoon. The injury occurred during a scrimmage at Self's youth camp on Tuesday afternoon at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena when Jackson got hit and landed awkwardly while driving to the basket. “Yesterday, while working out in front of the ...
Updated 4:39 p.m. Wednesday: Elmarko Jackson's torn patellar tendon, which has a 12-month recovery time and so looks like it will likely end his 2024-25 season months before it was even slated to begin, has altered the roster-building calculus for the Kansas men's basketball team for the remainder of the offseason. Mississippi State transfer Shakeel Moore, a strong defender with years of power-conference ...