This year's Kansas men’s basketball conference schedule is more difficult to comprehend in full than ever before. The Jayhawks will play 20 games in league play, beginning even before the start of the new year, as the Big 12 has expanded to contain 16 teams. As it did last season, KU also plays some teams only at home, some only on the road and some both home and away. As such, with so many different ...
The Kansas volleyball team has lived up to expectations early in its Big 12 slate, sweeping UCF in its nationally televised league opener (25-16, 31-29, 25-22) on Wednesday and taking down a solid Houston team 3-1 (22-25, 25-14, 25-17, 26-24) on Friday to advance to 11-1 overall on the season. While the Jayhawks didn't have to go five sets in either matchup — and in fact still haven't been taken that far in ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Many of Kansas’ players have dreams of making it to the NFL. Few had experienced playing in an NFL stadium prior to Saturday afternoon. They had, however, gotten the chance to practice at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium just before the start of the season, which, as defensive tackle Caleb Taylor put it, helped them get the “oohs and aahs” out of the way. “It’s a lot different ...
Kansas City, Mo. — By the end of the first quarter on Saturday, TCU’s Josh Hoover had thrown for 135 yards against Kansas’ defense. By halftime he had racked up 227 on 21-for-26 passing. While the Jayhawks were periodically able to force turnovers and benefited from a missed field goal in the third quarter, they never truly found a way to slow Hoover down. Hoover finished with 356 yards and three ...
Kansas City, Mo. — By the time Kansas’ game against TCU on Saturday kicked off at 2:30 p.m., Taiwan Berryhill Jr. had already been awake for more than 12 hours. It wasn’t pregame jitters, or anything like that. Berryhill had spent the previous night at his mother’s wedding in Louisiana. The veteran linebacker had left Lawrence after practice on Thursday to make it to his hometown New Orleans in time for ...
Kansas City, Mo. — When a reporter asked Lance Leipold about an officiating decision after Kansas lost at Illinois on Sept. 7, Leipold joked, “You’re going to try to get me fined, aren’t you? I’ll split the money with you if you let me say it. You’re in for five grand?” He then went into a direct, but only lightly critical, explanation of the issue at hand (a picked-up flag for pass ...