WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Without Harris, KU survives UCF 91-87

The first Kansas men’s basketball game without Dajuan Harris Jr. in the lineup since March 7, 2020, featured some never-before-seen sets of five Jayhawks. As KU coach Bill Self searched for answers, there were groups without point guards. There were groups with three big men. One lineup late in the first half even fulfilled both those constraints. Two constants amid much of the turnover were Hunter Dickinson ...

KU gets first taste of playing without Harris, which it may have to do again

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self believed he was going to have his point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. for Tuesday night’s game against UCF — the same way he had Harris in the fold for the prior 159 games, including 98 in a row as a starter. “We thought he was playing this morning,” Self said. “We thought he was fine this morning and obviously he goes out to shootaround and couldn’t do anything ...

Preview: KU will need to regroup in time for UCF rematch

Home losses are rare enough at Kansas that prior to Saturday, the Jayhawks hadn’t experienced more than one in a single season since the 2017-18 campaign. Every other home loss in the six and a half years since has been followed by a road trip. This time, though, the Jayhawks will have an immediate opportunity to redeem themselves in front of the Allen Fieldhouse crowd — which accepted KU coach Bill ...

Davis earns rare distinction as McDonald's All-American for KU women's basketball

One of the top recruits in the Kansas women's basketball team's recent program history received a noteworthy honor on Monday afternoon. Future Jayhawk Jaliya Davis, a 6-foot-2 five-star forward from Overland Park who ranks as ESPN’s No. 17 prospect in the nation, was named a McDonald’s All-American. She becomes just the third KU women’s basketball player ever to receive the honor overall and just the ...

KU women's golf keeps win streak going as Hirst claims first individual victory

The Kansas women's golf team, which prior to this season had not won back-to-back events in a dozen years, has secured a fourth straight victory. The Jayhawks' team score of a 2-over 290 was good enough for first place at the Match in the Desert, an event hosted by KU at the Prospector Golf Course in Gold Canyon, Arizona, where they had come in fifth last season. The win gave the 24th-ranked Jayhawks a ...

KU's barrage of commitments continues with Anderson

Landen Anderson, a defensive lineman from Santa Fe High School in Edmond, Oklahoma, announced on Monday evening that he will join the Kansas football team. Anderson is KU’s fourth commitment in the span of 48 hours and ninth overall in the class of 2026. Listed as a defensive end, but a strong candidate to move inside to tackle who was recruited by defensive tackles coach Jim Panagos, Anderson has not yet ...