It’ll be a battle for first place in the Big 12 this weekend at Hoglund Ballpark as No. 12 UCF visits Lawrence for a three-game series with Kansas, beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. The Knights, picked to finish 10th in the league in the preseason, are riding high in first place at 10-2 in Big 12 play after taking two of three on the road from fellow upper-echelon foe West Virginia. “I don’t think it’s ...
Kansas forward Samis Calderon will enter the transfer portal after one season with the Jayhawks, according to a report from Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress on Thursday morning. Calderon, a 6-foot-8 freshman, played sparingly during his lone season in Lawrence. He appeared in 16 games and averaged 0.4 points and 0.8 rebounds per game. His most extensive action came when he received 14 minutes and tallied two ...
When he concluded his high school career at Niles North in Skokie, Illinois, Jailen Butler would have considered himself more of a basketball player than a football player. He didn’t start playing football until his senior year of high school, and his allegiance to basketball persisted well into his junior-college career, as he participated in both sports at Trinity Valley Community College. He was a shooting ...
Updated 8:48 a.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2026: The general consensus around the Kansas football program seems to be that working alongside Andy Kotelnicki isn’t all that different the second time around. “You jump right back into it,” passing game coordinator Jim Zebrowski said. But there are some changes, to be sure. For one, head coach Lance Leipold said KU has reshaped some of its offensive terminology, ...
Kansas guard Jamari McDowell is entering the transfer portal, he announced in an Instagram post on Tuesday morning. “Wearing Kansas across my chest has been an honor I’ll carry with me forever,” he wrote in part. “The support, energy and love I’ve felt in Allen Fieldhouse is something I’ll never forget. You all helped shape me both on and off the court. After careful thought and prayer, I’ve ...
Kansas forward Bryson Tiller will enter the transfer portal, his agency Seros Partners confirmed to the Journal-World on Monday morning. Tiller is set to leave the Jayhawks after a season and a half. The 6-foot-11 forward from Atlanta out of Overtime Elite enrolled early at KU in the winter of 2025 when he was rehabbing a long-term ankle injury, then broke out at the start of the 2025-26 season to become a ...