If the Kansas defensive backs need to be convinced of the potential benefits of playing more aggressive coverage, beginning on Saturday against Arizona State, they need only look at their own body of work for evidence. On one particular snap in Friday’s loss to Missouri, cornerback Austin Alexander played stifling defense on a wide receiver. It was such good work that defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald added ...
When college football teams have received opportunities to play international games in recent years, they have invariably occurred either at the very start of the season or during the postseason. Kansas and Arizona State will be the first teams to reckon with the novelty of a rare experience — the Union Jack Classic will make them the first power-conference football teams to play in the United Kingdom — ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team learned the first couple pieces of information about its Big 12 Conference schedule on Monday morning with the announcement of a pair of ESPN Big Monday games for the season ahead. The Jayhawks will travel to Houston to face the Cougars at the Fertitta Center on Feb. 1 and then host Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse on March 1. Both games will take place at 8 p.m. and be ...
After weeks of rumors that he might take some sort of action to return for a fifth collegiate season, recent Kansas forward Tre White joined an eligibility lawsuit against the NCAA on Monday. White is part of a group of 89 plaintiffs who were added to a lawsuit in Monroe County, Indiana, that essentially includes athletes from the high school class of 2022 who played four seasons of a sport, exhausted their ...
Fourteen years removed from Missouri’s departure for the SEC, maybe the Border War still has some juice after all? After a Civil War-themed hype video released by Kansas on social media, entitled “Heroes and Villains,” sparked national interest in Friday night’s rivalry clash by depicting the rivalry as a battle of good and evil, Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz appeared to generally rebuke it in his ...
When Kansas quarterback Isaiah Marshall makes a mistake in a game, he says, he takes a look at his tablet on the sideline to try to understand what he did wrong and how he can correct it next time. Unfortunately for the Jayhawks, Marshall had to undergo that particular routine several times on Friday night, as he endured a pair of interceptions and a fumble in the first high-level action of his career, a 38-21 ...