Amid an offseason that has featured some of the most significant roster turnover in recent Kansas men’s basketball history, the new-look Jayhawks will get a chance to bond before the going gets tough. KU will embark on its first summer tour since a 2017 trip to Rome when it travels to Puerto Rico from Aug. 1-8. The Jayhawks, who will be based out of the capital, San Juan, are currently scheduled for one ...
The eighth and final former Kansas men's basketball player in the transfer portal found a new home Wednesday when Ernest Udeh Jr. committed to TCU. The 6-foot-11 center, who averaged 2.6 points and 1.8 rebounds as a freshman, posted a stylized graphic on Twitter announcing his commitment to the Horned Frogs with the caption "Imma need to grow some horns." Udeh arrived in Lawrence from Orlando, Florida, just ...
For most of the 2022-23 season, Kansas freshman Will King only occasionally placed among the top golfers on his own team. As recently as the Big 12 Conference Men’s Golf Championship, he ranked last among five Jayhawk competitors. It wasn’t until the end of the campaign, and his white-knuckle qualification out of NCAA regionals, that he found himself consistently going head to head with the best in the Big ...
The Kansas football team is still just over two months away from assembling its 2023 team for fall camp, but its coaches are already far along in the process of shaping the 2024 squad. The Jayhawks secured their fifth commitment in the 2024 freshman class Sunday, beating out 12 other Division I schools, including Big 12 foes Iowa State, Kansas State and Texas, for the services of Jonathan Kamara. The 6-foot-4, ...
A discus flew 4 centimeters farther, a runner finished half a second faster and a pair of Kansas track and field athletes earned their places at the NCAA Championships by the narrowest of margins. At the NCAA West Preliminary in Sacramento, Calif., Friday afternoon, KU sophomore thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis edged out UCLA's Aidan Elbettar for 12th place in the discus, as Elbettar's final mark of 56.82 meters ...
Kansas men’s basketball head coach Bill Self’s hospitalization and ensuing recovery in March caused him to miss five KU postseason games, three in the Big 12 Conference tournament and two in the NCAA Tournament. That flare-up, which required a heart catheterization and the installment of two stents, was actually the culmination of longer-term lingering discomfort, as Self explained Thursday on The Field of ...