Kansas head coach Bill Self said on Monday that KU itself is his sleeper team heading into the Big 12 tournament. “This year’s been — and last year too — probably been more inconsistent going into the tournament than maybe we have in past years, but yeah, I’m excited,” Self said. “I think we still have enough gas in the tank to play our best moving forward. And if we do that, then it could make ...
The Kansas softball team's 20-game road trip to start the 2025 season is at an end, and the Jayhawks are coming home series winners after a 12-2 six-inning victory at Baylor on Sunday afternoon. Junior second baseman Emma Tatum went 2-for-5 with a home run that tripled KU's lead in the fourth inning and a bases-clearing double that put the Jayhawks in run-rule territory in the sixth. Pitchers Lizzy Ludwig, ...
In the lead-up to Saturday’s senior-night battle with Arizona, Kansas coach Bill Self said center Hunter Dickinson had a chance to cement his legacy at KU by carrying the Jayhawks down the stretch. He told Dickinson as much in a team meeting at McCarthy Hall on Friday. “I told him last night in front of the team, ‘You’ve done a lot of good things since you’ve been here, but I haven’t seen you put a ...
Early in the season, Kansas guard Zeke Mayo found a way to contribute even if he didn’t have his shot. For example, Mayo earned a direct shout-out from Michigan State’s Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo when he managed to give the Jayhawks 10 rebounds and seven assists on a night when he went 2-for-8 from the field — playing a direct role in one of KU’s biggest wins of the year, 77-69 over the Spartans on ...
In a season that has seen an array of longstanding Kansas men’s basketball streaks fall by the wayside, the Jayhawks have a chance to preserve one of their most durable on Saturday afternoon. KU will attempt to win in its regular-season home finale for the 42nd straight time, as it hosts Arizona for senior day at 3:30 p.m., sporting its traditional crimson uniforms. “We don’t lose in those jerseys,” ...
The Kansas softball team opened the season by losing four of its first five games by a combined seven runs. “Even though it was painful for our team right out of the gate to not get those wins,” head coach Jennifer McFalls said on Wednesday, later adding that she looks back and feels the Jayhawks could easily have been 5-0, “I thought it was really good for our players to understand that we were not far ...