WRITER: Henry Greenstein

WVU beats No. 7 KU on game-winning free throw in final seconds of league opener

West Virginia was missing two of its top three scorers due to injury and didn’t make it to Lawrence until the wee hours of the morning, but you wouldn’t have known it from the way the Mountaineers opened Tuesday afternoon’s game at Kansas. Down Tucker DeVries and Amani Hansberry, WVU needed its peripheral players to step up, and the likes of Eduardo Andre and Sencire Harris punished the Jayhawks ...

Preview: KU begins Big 12 grind at home against West Virginia

Updated 2:27 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30: Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has already indicated that the Big 12’s 20-game conference schedule, to which he had on several occasions expressed his opposition, might not stick around very long. “Next year, if I’m not mistaken, we play, what is it, three teams twice?” Self said on Dec. 19. “Because we’re going from 20 to 18, is that what it is next ...

Griffen feeling comfortable at key time as KU enters conference play

Rylan Griffen came home for the holidays with a battle wound. After hitting heads with one of Brown's players during the second half of Kansas’ win over the Bears on Dec. 22, Griffen saw the effects of the collision for days afterward — or was unable to see, as it turned out. “I had a black eye for like two days,” he said on Monday. “I actually couldn’t see out of it for, like, really until ...

Columbia transfer receiver Canty commits to KU

The Kansas football team completed a quartet of transfer wide receivers on Monday, earning the commitment of former Columbia wideout Bryson Canty. Canty will be in his final year of eligibility after playing four seasons at the Ivy League school, including one campaign, 2023, in which he missed the vast majority due to injury and redshirted. In 2024 he helped the Lions win their first Ivy League football title ...

Year in review, Part 3: A look ahead to 2025

The next year is shaping up to feature some of the most dramatic changes in college sports history, at least since the equally monumental shifts that took place four years earlier. Not long after rule changes first allowed college athletes to take financial advantage of their name, image and likeness rights, schools are now slated to pay their athletes directly for the first time in 2025 as the result of a ...

Transfer portal check-in: How has KU done and what do the Jayhawks still need?

The college football transfer portal always seems to create action at the most unexpected moments, but right now is about as quiet as it gets this time of year. The window for players to enter the portal concludes on Saturday and schools are currently in the midst of a dead period during which they cannot bring potential transfers on campus for visits. At this point, Kansas is up to 17 transfer commitments, ...