Fresh off a big win on the gridiron Saturday night, the Kansas football team posted another significant victory on Monday morning, this time on the recruiting trail. Justin Thurman, a running back from Tampa, Florida, in the class of 2025 who once received his first collegiate scholarship offer from KU, announced that he has flipped his commitment from Notre Dame to the Jayhawks. Thurman, a four-star prospect ...
One of UNC Wilmington’s recent performances clearly made an impact on Kansas coach Bill Self. As part of an answer to a reporter's question on Monday about the ongoing development of his rotation, Self pointed out, "We’re playing a team tomorrow that scored 143 points in a game.” Indeed the Seahawks did, against Division II Mount Olive, with a whopping eight players in double figures, and UNCW has kept ...
Provo, Utah — The best play of the year for the Kansas football team was a punt. Faced with an unenviable fourth-and-14 on BYU’s 36-yard line, down 13-10 with quarterback Jalon Daniels having just taken a sack to push the Jayhawks out of field-goal range, KU lined up as though it was going to try for an extremely unlikely conversion. Instead, Daniels took the snap and punted. The ball improbably bounced ...
Provo, Utah — In virtually all of the Kansas football team’s six losses this season, the Jayhawks’ defense had a chance to get one decisive stop and seal a victory. At Illinois, KU gave up a go-ahead touchdown and then a clock-killing drive that resulted in a field goal. Against UNLV, the Jayhawks let the Rebels crawl down the field for nearly 10 minutes to take a late lead. At West Virginia and Arizona ...
Updated 4:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16: Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said on Friday that with Darryn Peterson and Samis Calderon already signed, the Jayhawks were “two-thirds done” with the early signing period. The final third came through just one day later. Bryson Tiller, a four-star forward ranked No. 20 in the nation by 247Sports and No. 21 by Rivals, announced on a 247Sports livestream on ...
Rallying from early deficits in each of the first two sets, the 12th-ranked Kansas volleyball team pulled away from No. 17 Baylor on Saturday and claimed a 3-0 sweep (25-22, 26-24, 25-17) at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. KU, which had just beaten No. 18 TCU three days earlier, improved to 22-3 overall and 13-2 in Big 12 play with three matches to go in the year. Saturday's victory relied on a well-rounded ...