Kansas head coach Nate Lie felt some pressure to reach the Big 12 tournament at CPKC Stadium in his first year with the program. “You don’t want to be the team that’s sort of the home team,” he said, “and then have to watch it from the sidelines.” At the time of his arrival from Xavier, becoming one of the top 12 in a 16-team league seemed like a reasonable but still challenging goal — ...
By halftime on Tuesday night, the Kansas men’s basketball team had made more 3-pointers — eight — than in all but one of its conference games last season. Facing off against a lower-division Washburn squad, the new-look Jayhawks continued apace in the second half and gave the KU faithful a succinct demonstration of their outside-shooting potential in their final exhibition of the fall, taking down former ...
David Coit was celebrating before his teammate’s shot had even gone in. Coit had just made a no-look pass to Zeke Mayo in the corner and clearly felt certain his fellow transfer would make it. His confidence turned out to be quite justified, as Mayo drained the second of a pair of back-to-back 3-pointers to put Kansas up 63-28 in the second half of Tuesday’s exhibition victory over Washburn. “It’s the ...
Jaylen Mason, a high school junior quarterback from Wichita Northwest, announced his commitment on Tuesday night to play college football at Kansas. He became the first member of the Jayhawks' 2026 recruiting class. In doing so he followed in the footsteps of Edmond, Oklahoma, quarterback David McComb, KU's first 2025 commitment in July 2023. Between current true freshman Isaiah Marshall, McComb and Mason, KU ...
Washburn coach Brett Ballard had a humble suggestion. In response to a reporter’s post on X last week about Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson, Rylan Griffen and Shakeel Moore sitting out the Jayhawks’ exhibition game at Arkansas due to injury, Ballard joked, “I think they should all rest until at least next Wednesday,” with shrugging and laughing emojis appended. Unfortunately for Ballard, the former KU ...
Manhattan — Kansas wide receiver Luke Grimm has been in the program long enough — having witnessed a 55-14 loss to Kansas State his freshman year — to understand what a Sunflower Showdown victory could have done for the Jayhawks. He and his teammates were one good drive away, on either of two occasions, from getting to experience one for the first time on Saturday night. After all the chaos and ...