After a brief lull with a pair of home matchups against mid-major opponents, both of whom the Jayhawks handled fairly well — “get-better games,” as point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. called them — the difficulty of Kansas’ schedule is about to ratchet back up. KU will travel to face No. 11 Duke in Las Vegas at 8 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday as part of the Vegas Showdown event. It’s another battle of ...
Current Kansas volleyball seniors Toyosi Onabanjo and Camryn Turner will have a chance to play domestically at the next level once they conclude their college careers. Onabanjo was selected with the last pick of the first round of Monday's Pro Volleyball Federation draft, No. 8 overall by the Omaha Supernovas, while her teammate Turner went with the sixth pick of the third round, 22nd overall to the Grand ...
The Kansas volleyball team beat rival Kansas State for the eighth straight time, fighting off the Wildcats in extra points in the fourth set to claim a 3-1 victory (25-17, 23-25, 25-18, 28-26) at Morgan Family Arena in Manhattan. K-State's star outside hitter Aliyah Carter racked up a game-high 24 kills on 68 total attacks throughout the afternoon, but the well-rounded and efficient offense of KU, with five ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Devin Neal would settle for nothing less than a victory in his final home game as a Jayhawk. The KU senior running back posted one of the best single-game efforts of his career to will KU to its third straight victory over a ranked opponent, putting up 287 total yards and four touchdowns as the Jayhawks scored on seven consecutive drives and beat No. 16 Colorado, 37-21. “It was a truly a ...
Kansas City, Mo. — To hear head coach Lance Leipold tell it, Kansas running backs coach Jonathan Wallace rotated in backup running back Sevion Morrison early with the knowledge it might be “a heavy day of carries” for senior starter Devin Neal. That ended up being an understatement. Neal finished Saturday with a career-high 37 carries and 41 overall touches for 287 yards. “I’m going to feel that ...
Two disparate rebuilding projects that have run in parallel will intersect on Saturday when Colorado visits GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium to face Kansas. It will be the first meeting between the two schools since Colorado initially left the Big 12 prior to the 2011 season — only to return to the conference 13 years later. But the program the Jayhawks face on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. bears little resemblance ...