WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Logan Brown will enter NFL Draft

The Kansas football team has a chance to send an offensive tackle to the NFL once again, as starting right tackle Logan Brown announced on Wednesday that he is declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft. "It has been an honor to represent the University of Kansas football program these past two years," Brown wrote on social media. "I want to thank my teammates for the memories we have made on and off the field and for ...

KU sustains first loss of season, 76-63 at Creighton

Omaha, Neb. — Kansas coach Bill Self knew Creighton wasn’t shooting from beyond the arc as well as it could. He said as much before the Jayhawks left Lawrence to take on the Bluejays on Wednesday night. Almost as soon as the game tipped off, Self was proven right. Creighton made five of its first eight shots from deep and was 7-for-14 by halftime, allowing it to outpace a KU offense that wasn’t ...

Creighton prevented Dickinson from getting seriously involved in Wednesday's game

Omaha, Neb. — There were two potential All-American centers on the floor Wednesday night, but you might not have known it from watching the game — unless you looked at the alignment of Creighton's defense. The Bluejays returned to a tried-and-true strategy from past KU opponents that had inhibited Dickinson in some of his worst games of the 2023-24 season, loading up the paint with defenders, beyond just ...

Preview: Health permitting for Kalkbrenner, big-time centers will face off in KU-Creighton

Wednesday’s big-man battle between 7-footers Hunter Dickinson of Kansas and Ryan Kalkbrenner of Creighton has loomed on the schedule for months, to the point that Bluejays coach Greg McDermott even referenced the matchup as part of Kalkbrenner’s announcement in May that he was returning for a fifth collegiate season. “It’ll be like two dinosaurs, he and Hunter going against each other, because they’re ...

The biggest needs for KU football in the transfer portal

Updated 5:42 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3: While the transfer portal officially opens on Monday, the frenzy has already begun. Graduate transfers have long been able to enter the portal, and the Kansas football coaching staff has already dished out a host of scholarship offers to four-year college and JUCO transfers, many of which players have reported on social media in recent days. Plus, just a few days removed ...

Ptacek wins freshman of the year, Bien scholar-athlete of the year; 4 more Jayhawks honored

For a Kansas volleyball team with so much experience across the board, one of the biggest postseason honors went to a freshman. Reese Ptacek, a first-year middle blocker from Prescott, Wisconsin, saw her first action at KU in late September and by early October had become a fixture in the Jayhawks' starting lineup. After averaging 1.94 kills per set on .325 hitting during the regular season to go with a ...