WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU women's basketball gets commitment from Brown; more key visits to come

The Kansas women's basketball team added to its 2025 class when Tatyonna Brown, a 6-foot-2 forward, announced her commitment to join the Jayhawks on Sunday. Brown attends Air Academy High School, located at the Air Force Academy just outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her team reached the Colorado Class 5A Final Four in March, and Brown earned an all-tournament selection from Colorado Preps. Her ...

Bumgardner earned rotational chance at WVU, impressed coaches

When Shane Bumgardner lost out on a starting job to fellow transfer center Bryce Foster, he didn’t immediately have a clear-cut role on the 2024 Kansas football team. But offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes and offensive line coach Daryl Agpalsa clearly made good on their preseason allusions to the prospect of cross-training Bumgardner on the interior line, because after sitting out KU’s previous two games, ...

Big 12 power rankings: Utah tightens grip on top spot as BYU surges

Utah was a near-unanimous top pick in this week’s Big 12 Power Rankings. The unbeaten Utes received 15 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media who regularly cover the Big 12. Iowa State climbed to No. 2 this week, while BYU made the biggest jump of the week from ninth to third and received the other first-place vote. 1. Utah Previous ranking: 1 Points: 255 (15 first-place ...

Self: Mayo has been team's best player, is currently on track to start

In a podcast interview with The Field of 68 on Wednesday night, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said that if KU were playing a game tomorrow “it’d be hard to keep” transfer guard Zeke Mayo out of the starting lineup. “He’s been our most consistent, best guy since June, in my opinion,” Self said, reiterating a theme he had touched upon in a separate interview with Bleacher Report during the ...

KU volleyball opens conference play Wednesday

After Big 12 coaches selected Kansas as the favorite to win the league this season, the Jayhawks have a chance to go out and prove it on the court beginning on Wednesday night. KU will welcome UCF to Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena at 6 p.m. The contest will also air on ESPNU as one of the Jayhawks’ two nationally televised matches of the regular season. It’s the start of an 18-match grind in the new Big ...

Jayhawks on the move: Several former KU players find new NBA teams

The NBA season is only a month away, but recent weeks have featured some significant transactions for onetime Kansas players at the top level of professional basketball. Many of the former Jayhawks are firmly entrenched on their current NBA teams. Joel Embiid recently signed a multi-year maximum contract extension that will see him rack up nearly $300 million by the end of the 2028-29 season. Christian Braun ...