One of Kansas' best-ever point guards, who also happens to be a former NBA head coach, is joining Bill Self's staff. Jacque Vaughn is coming back to KU as an assistant coach, Self announced on Wednesday, filling the spot left vacant by the recent retirement of Norm Roberts. "I've known Jacque from a distance for several years now and have always admired how he has conducted himself professionally and how he ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald was named the Big 12's coach of the year in a poll of his fellow head coaches, the league announced on Tuesday afternoon. Fitzgerald, who is in his third year helming the program, led the Jayhawks to their best regular season in school history, featuring records for regular-season wins, conference wins and road wins. KU finished second in the Big 12 Conference during the ...
Updated 1:01 p.m. Wednesday, May 21: Reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014 could be rewarding beyond the baseball diamond for head coach Dan Fitzgerald and the Kansas program. The Jayhawks’ forthcoming postseason berth — essentially cemented by KU’s series win against BYU and sweep on the road at West Virginia — will automatically extend Fitzgerald’s contract by a year. That’s ...
The University of Kansas athletic department has in less than a year reduced its workforce by about 30 people, athletic director Travis Goff told the Journal-World on Tuesday afternoon. By beginning with a hiring freeze at the start of last fall, continuing by offering its employees voluntary separations in January and most recently undergoing an “involuntary targeted reduction,” or layoffs, KU Athletics ...
One of the former Kansas men’s basketball players drafted in 2024 will have the chance to advance to the NBA Finals in his first professional season. The Indiana Pacers, who acquired Johnny Furphy No. 35 overall via a trade with the San Antonio Spurs, and the New York Knicks, who got Kevin McCullar Jr. at No. 56 by trading with the Phoenix Suns, will meet in the Eastern Conference Finals beginning on ...
As the Big 12 prepares for its baseball tournament on Wednesday at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, the conference is already looking ahead to a different host site next season. The league announced on Monday morning that beginning next year, the event will take place at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Arizona, which is the Phoenix-area spring training home of the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers. “We ...