Kansas head coach Bill Self said on Monday that KU itself is his sleeper team heading into the Big 12 tournament. “This year’s been — and last year too — probably been more inconsistent going into the tournament than maybe we have in past years, but yeah, I’m excited,” Self said. “I think we still have enough gas in the tank to play our best moving forward. And if we do that, then it could make ...
Kansas center Hunter Dickinson on Monday afternoon received first-team All-Big 12 honors from a poll of the league's head coaches, making him one of three Jayhawks to earn some kind of distinction. This is the second straight year Dickinson has been named to the first team. This season, the fifth-year senior center, who is coming off a 33-point career-high showing in his final game at Allen Fieldhouse, has ...
The Kansas softball team's 20-game road trip to start the 2025 season is at an end, and the Jayhawks are coming home series winners after a 12-2 six-inning victory at Baylor on Sunday afternoon. Junior second baseman Emma Tatum went 2-for-5 with a home run that tripled KU's lead in the fourth inning and a bases-clearing double that put the Jayhawks in run-rule territory in the sixth. Pitchers Lizzy Ludwig, ...
Early in the season, Kansas guard Zeke Mayo found a way to contribute even if he didn’t have his shot. For example, Mayo earned a direct shout-out from Michigan State’s Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo when he managed to give the Jayhawks 10 rebounds and seven assists on a night when he went 2-for-8 from the field — playing a direct role in one of KU’s biggest wins of the year, 77-69 over the Spartans on ...
In the lead-up to Saturday’s senior-night battle with Arizona, Kansas coach Bill Self said center Hunter Dickinson had a chance to cement his legacy at KU by carrying the Jayhawks down the stretch. He told Dickinson as much in a team meeting at McCarthy Hall on Friday. “I told him last night in front of the team, ‘You’ve done a lot of good things since you’ve been here, but I haven’t seen you put a ...
In a season that has seen an array of longstanding Kansas men’s basketball streaks fall by the wayside, the Jayhawks have a chance to preserve one of their most durable on Saturday afternoon. KU will attempt to win in its regular-season home finale for the 42nd straight time, as it hosts Arizona for senior day at 3:30 p.m., sporting its traditional crimson uniforms. “We don’t lose in those jerseys,” ...