STILLWATER, Okla. — Kansas jumped out to a 23-point lead in the first half thanks to a red-hot shooting start for Darryn Peterson, then the Jayhawks held on as Peterson sat out most of the second half and they managed to secure an 81-69 victory over Oklahoma State at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Wednesday night. Peterson scored 23 points in 18 minutes before exiting for good with 17:22 to play due to cramps in a ...
Updated 1:53 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, 2026: STILLWATER, Okla. — Kansas coach Bill Self has spoken at length this season — even at his team’s happiest moments, like after KU beat No. 1 Arizona on Feb. 9 — about how he believes his team can reach another level of play when it has all its pieces firmly in place. The way Wednesday night’s victory at Oklahoma State went down makes one wonder exactly when ...
Each game gets magnified as the end of the season draws nearer, as Kansas coach Bill Self sees it. “When we can see the finish line, things that happen closer to the finish line are more important,” Self said, “because just like a game, you can make a mistake in the first five or 10 minutes and there’s time to recover. You get under the five-minute mark and whatever, there may not be time to recover. ...
Kansas women’s basketball forward Jaliya Davis on Tuesday afternoon became the first player in league history to receive Big 12 freshman of the week honors in seven consecutive weeks. Davis, a first-year player from Overland Park and a former McDonald’s All-American, leads the Jayhawks in scoring and is second in the league at 22.4 points per game in conference play. She also averages 6.5 rebounds and one ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said on Monday that he was surprised by the timing of rival Kansas State’s decision to dismiss head coach Jerome Tang, which the school announced on Sunday with six games remaining in the regular season. “I like Jerome,” Self said. “I hate to see when any coach gets let go. But I also know that it’s big money and it’s big business, and people make decisions based on what is in ...
Gavyn Schlotterback played 58 baseball games at Paris Junior College in Texas last spring and another 44 over the summer for the Badlands Big Sticks in North Dakota without knowing that something was terribly wrong. He felt fine. He played well. So well in Paris, in fact, that he was all-conference at two positions and all-region at a third and earned an opportunity to play baseball at Kansas as a catcher, ...