MANHATTAN — The Kansas alumni team JHX Hoops is on the brink of first-round elimination from The Basketball Tournament after losing 80-61 to Kansas State alumni team Purple Reign on Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. Michael Beasley led Purple Reign with 20 points and six assists, and Austin Trice’s 16 helped the former Wildcats keep their distance late, while Billy Preston scored 15 for JHX with seven ...
The Kansas baseball team will play a unique exhibition game this fall as part of its preparation for the 2027 season. KU and Iowa will face off in Dyersville, Iowa, near the site where the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. The matchup is set for Oct. 10 at 1 p.m., Iowa announced on Monday. The ballpark has been the site of past MLB and minor-league games and will host more on Aug. 11 (the Iowa Cubs ...
With the conclusion of Sunday night’s championship game between the Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies, the 2026 edition of the NBA Summer League came to a close. The 11-day whirlwind of exhibition action — preceded by offshoot competitions in California and Utah — provided opportunities for a handful of young former Kansas basketball players to test their mettle in the early stages of their ...
It’s been a quieter-than-usual month of July for JHX Hoops ahead of The Basketball Tournament. The events that have dotted the dog days of summer in recent years — a meet-and-greet, a camp, an open practice, a scrimmage — have been largely absent this time around in the lead-up to the Kansas alumni team’s best-of-three series with Kansas State alumni squad Purple Reign. That begins on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ...
When it comes to the Big 12’s forays into international play, Kansas coach Lance Leipold wants his team to be “on the cutting edge of this for years to come,” he said at the conference’s media days in Frisco, Texas. “We talk about a lot of things in our sport now that are going on that emulate a lot of things that are done in the NFL,” Leipold said. “Well, there's a reason why the NFL keeps adding ...
It’s that quiet time of the year well after spring sports come to a close, one that Kansas Athletics forestalled a bit this time around with a lengthy postseason run for its baseball team and a few strong track and field performances, but one that inevitably arrives every summer. In reality, the start of the athletic calendar isn’t so far away. The KU soccer team begins quite early this year with a home ...