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 ...
As the Kansas football team begins the long process of replenishing its skill positions, it earned a significant commitment from an experienced power-conference running back on Monday. Leshon Williams, a transfer from Iowa who had less than a week earlier committed to Memphis, announced on Instagram that he will instead attend KU. Williams is a 5-foot-10, 214-pound running back who carried the ball 170 times ...
The contingent of unavailable players on the Kansas women's basketball team's bench this year has in many games featured some of its most promising talents. One of the players notably absent from KU's early-season action has been Jordan Webster, a fifth-year senior from Dallas who transferred from UC Riverside in the offseason. After his team returned from a 3-0 run through the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin ...
Updated 3:36 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2: After waiting seven years between opportunities to host NCAA Tournament matches, then losing its second-round tilt with Penn State in agonizing fashion last year, the Kansas volleyball team will welcome postseason competition back to Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this week. KU, which earned a No. 3 seed in the tournament, will take on the unseeded Patriot League champion ...
Waco, Texas — The recipe for success for the Kansas defense during the Jayhawks’ impressive late-season run was holding firm in the red zone and forcing the occasional turnover on downs, like early in KU’s win over Colorado, or well-timed interception, like before the half against BYU. That recipe turned rotten on Saturday afternoon at Baylor, when the Jayhawks had no answer for any facet of the Bears’ ...
Waco, Texas — Running back Devin Neal technically became a Kansas football alumnus as soon as he walked off the field at McLane Stadium on Saturday, following his school-record 20th career 100-yard rushing performance. The Jayhawks’ turnover-laden and massively disappointing 45-17 loss to Baylor had ended any reasonable hope that they could reach a third straight bowl game under head coach Lance ...