Kansas City, Mo. — Big 12 Conference Commissioner Brett Yormark preemptively declined comment on his league's hottest topic, expansion — other than to say that nothing else was imminent in that domain — but he still found a way deliver some intra-conference news at the podium Tuesday. Opening the Big 12's annual women's basketball media day, Yormark said that the conference is working on a contract ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider still remembers a vivid impression he got when his team played Stanford in the 2022 NCAA Tournament. “One through five, I thought we were really, really competitive,” Schneider told reporters at Big 12 Conference media day Tuesday. “It’s when we went to six, seven, eight, they went to their six, seven and eight, where there was a ...
Kansas coach Mark Francis called Sunday's match against West Virginia "like so many of the other games in the conference that we have played" in a postgame press release. Indeed, the Jayhawks went back and forth with the Mountaineers in a fairly even run of play, much as they have in the majority of their seven one-goal losses on the year. But a scoreless first period gave way to a familiar second-half ...
Kansas tight end Mason Fairchild broke free for two wide-open touchdowns in two minutes Saturday at Oklahoma State, after being held without a score for the first six games of the season. Chances are, though, that’s not what he’ll remember when he looks back on his trip to Stillwater. “We have a tendency to look at the things we did wrong,” he said postgame. “I’m my biggest critic. I’m not really ...
The votes are in and after months of offseason speculation, the Kansas men's basketball program finally has a highly coveted number it can affix to its name: No. 1. The Jayhawks were selected for the top spot in the Associated Press' preseason poll Monday, earning 46 of a possible 63 first-place votes from the AP's panel of media members. It is the fourth time that KU has been anointed as preseason No. 1, after ...
There may be no position group on Kansas’ roster more in need of a bye week than the defensive ends. After starters Hayden Hatcher and Jereme Robinson went down with injuries late in the game against UCF on Oct. 7 and missed practice the following Monday, Robinson specifically was able to play significant time in Saturday’s game at Oklahoma State. But then Austin Booker, arguably the breakout player of the ...