WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Preview: KU to open season against Howard on Monday

After enduring a long offseason following a second straight second-round exit from the NCAA Tournament, then playing a pair of disparate exhibition games, the Kansas men’s basketball team returns to the court for real on Monday. The Jayhawks will host Howard at Allen Fieldhouse at 7 p.m. Monday night. The game is both the second annual McLendon Classic — honoring John McLendon, a KU alumnus and the first ...

KU to play November 2025 tournament in San Diego, per report

The Kansas men's basketball team will take part in a tournament in San Diego in November 2025, according to a report on Friday morning. Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today reports that the Jayhawks will be featured in the four-team field of the Rady Children's Invitational, along with Florida, Providence and Wisconsin. Next year's edition of the tournament will be the third. Last year's inaugural event ...

Peterson, No. 3 recruit in 2025, commits to KU men's basketball

Mere days before its first official action at Allen Fieldhouse during the 2024-25 season, the Kansas men’s basketball team earned a significant commitment for 2025-26. Darryn Peterson, a 6-foot-5 combo guard who ranks as the consensus No. 3 player in the 2025 recruiting class, announced on a 247Sports livestream Friday night that he will join the Jayhawks next year. The five-star prospect picked KU over ...

Bye-week breakdown: How KU has progressed on offense

A quirk in the college football calendar has left the Kansas football team with an odd late-season lull. For the first time since 2019, the schedule has aligned in a precise way — in short, it has to do with having an earlier Labor Day than usual, and will happen again next year — such that the Jayhawks have two bye weeks. They are not necessarily distributed at optimal intervals. Just three weeks and two ...

Big 12 power rankings: BYU is new No. 1

There's a new No. 1. BYU moved into the top spot in this week's Big 12 power rankings, receiving 11 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media that regular covers the conference. Iowa State, which had been No. 1 the previous four weeks, dropped to second (with five first-place votes). Kansas plays each of the top two teams, both of which are unbeaten, in its next two games: Iowa State at GEHA ...

KU soccer holds off ASU to advance in Big 12 tournament

Kansas City, Mo. — First-team all-conference selections Lexi Watts and Caroline Castans scored once each, and the Kansas soccer team weathered a sudden momentum swing midway through the second half to beat Arizona State 2-1 at CPKC Stadium. In the 58th minute of Wednesday’s match, with KU leading 1-0, Makayla Merlo found Castans, the reigning Big 12 defensive player of the week, wide open on the left side ...