Provo, Utah — In the aftermath of Saturday’s surprise 74-67 road loss to Utah, the Kansas men’s basketball team did not have its usual refuge of an immediate trip back to Lawrence. The Jayhawks stayed overnight in Salt Lake City with a plan to practice at the Utah Jazz’s facility on Sunday, engage in some team bonding and then make the move down to Provo on Monday ahead of KU’s game against BYU on ...
A series loss to Illinois-Chicago to open the 2024 season meant that the Kansas baseball team already had a black mark on its schedule in mid-February. The Jayhawks don’t have to worry about that this year. KU pulled off a four-game road sweep of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in its first action of 2025, escaping with an extra-innings victory in the opener Friday and then breezing past the Islanders in three ...
Salt Lake City — One of the principal storylines throughout Kansas’ nonconference schedule was the Jayhawks’ ongoing search for a team identity. “Because who are we?” KU coach Bill Self wondered aloud on Dec. 8, after the Jayhawks had lost back-to-back road games at Creighton and Missouri. “Are we a skilled team? Are we an athletic team? Are we an execution team? What do we really hang our hat on? ...
Salt Lake City — The fateful selection show on which it will learn its seeding for the NCAA Tournament is still four weeks and a handful of games away, but the NCAA March Madness Men’s Bracket Preview show, aired on CBS on Saturday morning, projected Kansas to receive a No. 4 seed. The projection, which preceded KU’s Saturday night matchup with Utah at the Jon M. Huntsman Center, followed an inconsistent ...
Salt Lake City — A week after it went on the road and led for just two minutes and 26 seconds in a decisive loss to rival Kansas State, the Kansas men’s basketball team did even worse on Saturday: It never led at all. Even as Utah underwent scoreless stretches of 5:06 in the first half and 7:17 in the second, the Jayhawks were able to tie the game on several occasions but never quite get over the hump. Most ...
After rekindling a rivalry with an old conference foe in Tuesday’s victory over Colorado, the Kansas men’s basketball team is now in uncharted territory as it travels to Utah for a five-day continuous swing featuring games against Utah and BYU. “I think this is great,” KU coach Bill Self said. “We didn’t get a Thanksgiving trip, we didn’t get a trip in November that’s a team bonding trip where ...