Providence, R.I. — It was so far from the way KJ Adams would have wanted to end his Kansas career. A day earlier, on the podium ahead of KU’s first-round tilt with Arkansas, the senior forward from Austin, Texas, had spoken of excitement within the team and how his teammates were "just ready to play hard and start that new season.” On Thursday night, though, right as the Jayhawks seemed poised to open ...
Providence, R.I. — For the first time since 2006, the Kansas men’s basketball team has failed to advance out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament. As befit a team that entered the postseason as an uncharacteristically low No. 7 seed, the Jayhawks’ first-round foe wasn’t an opportunistic Bucknell or Bradley on this occasion but instead a highly talented, John Calipari-coached Arkansas. "This is the ...
Providence, R.I. — Before it was Kansas' turn to take the floor at Amica Mutual Pavilion on Thursday night for its NCAA Tournament matchup against Arkansas, a former Jayhawk had already sealed his first-round fate on the same court. Senior guard Bobby Pettiford, who played a pair of seasons for KU, including on the Jayhawks’ national-title team in 2021-22, before transferring to East Carolina, established ...
The Kansas football team will not host a Spring Showcase this season, a KU Athletics spokesperson said on Thursday morning. KU cited logistical conflicts at Rock Chalk Park with other events during the weekend the Spring Showcase was set to take place. According to a spring practice schedule some KU staffers had circulated on social media, the event was set to occur on April 11. Rock Chalk Park would have been ...
Providence, R.I. — Escaping the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament has become an increasingly difficult task for the Kansas men's basketball team in recent years. Since 2018, the Jayhawks have done so just once — and it resulted in a national title. This year, after a lackluster regular season that resulted in a No. 7 seed, the Jayhawks have earned themselves a harder road out of their tournament-opening ...
Providence, R.I. — Some of the loudest cheers in Allen Fieldhouse — and in college basketball arenas across the country — rain down in the final minutes of blowout home wins. Crowds get reinvigorated when fans see their favorite walk-ons come to the scorer’s table to enter the game and, better yet, leave their mark on the final box score. On Feb. 22, forward Dillon Wilhite, a nonscholarship player from ...