Just two years ago, the Kansas women's basketball team was picked to finish last in the Big 12 Conference in the league's preseason poll. After qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in 2022 and then winning the Women's National Invitation Tournament in 2023, head coach Brandon Schneider's squad is facing significantly higher expectations. In a preseason poll of conference coaches released Thursday, KU slotted in ...
The Big 12 Conference coaches expect the Kansas women's basketball team to pick up right where it left off. Seven months after center Taiyanna Jackson and guard Zakiyah Franklin earned first-team All-Big 12 honors and Holly Kersgieter picked up an honorable mention, those three players were honored again in the league's 2023 preseason poll of Big 12 coaches. All three players are super-seniors who have chosen ...
The Kansas defense and its coordinator Brian Borland were acutely aware last week that the Jayhawks had given up 427 rushing yards to Texas in 2022. When it came time to take on the Longhorns again, though, that awareness only meant so much. “We were 100 yards better than we were a year ago against Texas," Borland said Wednesday, "but that’s not saying much." This time around, KU gave up 336 yards on an ...
Last year’s Kansas men’s basketball team had 13 players on scholarship, and its bench was widely considered one of its greatest weaknesses; the Jayhawks’ backups averaged just 10.89 points per game, one of the lowest marks in the country. This year, with Zach Clemence still slated to redshirt after his unexpected return from the transfer portal (in what coach Bill Self called a “very fair” ...
Fresh off his victory at Notre Dame's Joe Piane Invitational on Friday, Kansas senior Chandler Gibbens earned the NCAA Division I National Athlete of the Week award Monday from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Gibbens finished first in a field of 155 runners at Notre Dame, beating his personal record by more than half a minute and coming in just two seconds before runner-up ...
Freshman Caroline Castans scored her first collegiate goal in the 86th minute on a rebound off a free kick, but Kansas couldn't muster another shot in the final moments and fell 2-1 to No. 21 Texas at Rock Chalk Park on Sunday. Both teams struggled to put shots on target in the first half, but the Longhorns' Trinity Byars seized on an errant pass from KU goalkeeper Melania Pasar to put Texas up 1-0 soon after ...