The Kansas football team caught transfer safety Lyrik Rawls’ attention with its prompt and significant interest from the moment he decided to leave Oklahoma State. “I got in the portal like the day right before the portal opened, and then they had me on my visit, like, on that Tuesday,” he recalled on Thursday. “They showed me that they was serious about me, so why not go somewhere where I’m ...
The Haskell Indian Nations University women’s basketball team received its draw for the NAIA tournament on Thursday night, and it’s a daunting one. The Fighting Indians will travel to face No. 1 seed Dordt in its home city of Sioux Center, Iowa for a first-round matchup on March 14 at 5 p.m. The Defenders will be defending last year's national championship, and have gone 29-2 this season while claiming ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald, by his own admission, was a bit hoarse when he entered the Allen Fieldhouse media room for a press conference on Wednesday morning. He attributed it to the unrelenting noise made by the resurgent KU baseball fan base. “It’s because I’m trying to get our guys’ attention on the field,” Fitzgerald said. “Those guys are so loud.” The Jayhawks welcomed Omaha to ...
In keeping with her ongoing rise to national prominence, Kansas' standout guard S'Mya Nichols received a highly selective honor from the Big 12 Conference on Tuesday afternoon. For the second season in a row, Nichols is a first-team all-league selection. The sophomore from Overland Park, who stepped into a leadership role as KU's primary scoring option this year after the departures of several longtime program ...
Houston — In Kansas’ last three games, forward KJ Adams and center Hunter Dickinson have combined to supply 58% of the Jayhawks’ points. That’s a welcome development for KU from a certain perspective — Adams has averaged 17 points per game in his last three contests after reaching that mark just once in the prior 25 — but it also speaks to more salient and concerning developments: simultaneous cold ...
Houston — When Houston stunned Kansas in double overtime at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 25, L.J. Cryer’s offensive production had little to do with it. The guard from Katy, Texas, scored just nine points in 48 minutes on that day. When the two teams faced off again on Monday night, Cryer had 18 by halftime. As the rest of his teammates shot an uncharacteristic 5-for-26 (19.2%) from the field, with no ...