WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Whole KU squad to share responsibility of holding team together

Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team’s season has gotten off to an unexpectedly poor 1-3 start, culminating in Saturday’s conference-opening loss at West Virginia. As the Jayhawks’ vaunted class of seniors looks to keep the team together and get the year back on track, though, many of them can take solace in the fact that they’ve endured much worse — at a time when they played for a vastly ...

Preview: Daniels, KU offense have opportunity against struggling WVU secondary

West Virginia coach Neal Brown agreed on Monday with a reporter’s suggestion that “Jalon Daniels’ biggest strengths are the things that you’ve struggled with so far.” “That’s fair,” Brown said. “He’s probably pretty excited.” The Mountaineers, who like Kansas have suffered a pair of frustrating nonconference losses, finished their third week of the season allowing 280.7 passing yards per ...

Dunn has delivered greater consistency this season

During the spring, the Kansas coaching staff told Tommy Dunn he was “inconsistent.” The redshirt junior defensive tackle wrote that word down and looked at it every morning when he woke up. “So I could try to beat it, you know what I’m saying,” Dunn recalled this week. “Me versus me, try to beat myself.” Several weeks into the 2024 season, it certainly looks like Dunn has won the battle. ...

KU marks stadium construction milestone

Kansas Athletics held a topping-out ceremony for its stadium renovation project on Thursday afternoon, marking a significant milestone as it continues on track toward the August 2025 deadline for the project’s first phase. The last of about 6,500 total pieces of steel required for phase one, which deals chiefly with the north and west portions of the venue, assumed its permanent place near the southwestern ...

Jayhawk Classic brings top-10 matchups to Horejsi

Three of the top 10 collegiate volleyball teams in the nation — including the newly minted No. 10 Kansas Jayhawks — will descend on Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this week for a high-stakes edition of the Jayhawk Classic nonconference tournament. KU will host No. 6 Purdue on Thursday, unranked Tulsa on Friday and No. 9 Creighton on Saturday in a three-match gantlet that will demonstrate just how prepared ...

Big 12 power rankings: High-ranked teams face off this week, KU continues to drop

Only three points separate the top two teams in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. Utah remained No. 1 for the third consecutive week, receiving eight of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Kansas State, one of the league’s seven unbeaten teams, moved up to No. 2 with six first-place votes and 242 points. The marquee matchup of the weekend will ...