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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kansas redshirt sophomore cornerback Brian Dilworth announced on Tuesday afternoon that he plans to enter the transfer portal. He became the first player to do so after KU's season concluded with its loss at Baylor on Saturday. Dilworth, who was one of very few sophomores on KU's 2024 roster, played just 18 snaps on defense and two on special teams this season, according to Pro Football Focus, with most of his ...
It was a truly dreadful year for those of us who, as at least some small part of our professional duties, have to project how Big 12 Conference teams will fare in football. As a voter in the league’s preseason poll, I was as guilty as anyone of incorrectly assuming that Utah (5-7, 2-7 Big 12) and Oklahoma State (3-9, 0-9 Big 12) would run the league in its first year without traditional powers Oklahoma and ...