A series loss to Illinois-Chicago to open the 2024 season meant that the Kansas baseball team already had a black mark on its schedule in mid-February. The Jayhawks don’t have to worry about that this year. KU pulled off a four-game road sweep of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in its first action of 2025, escaping with an extra-innings victory in the opener Friday and then breezing past the Islanders in three ...
Salt Lake City — One of the principal storylines throughout Kansas’ nonconference schedule was the Jayhawks’ ongoing search for a team identity. “Because who are we?” KU coach Bill Self wondered aloud on Dec. 8, after the Jayhawks had lost back-to-back road games at Creighton and Missouri. “Are we a skilled team? Are we an athletic team? Are we an execution team? What do we really hang our hat on? ...
Salt Lake City — The fateful selection show on which it will learn its seeding for the NCAA Tournament is still four weeks and a handful of games away, but the NCAA March Madness Men’s Bracket Preview show, aired on CBS on Saturday morning, projected Kansas to receive a No. 4 seed. The projection, which preceded KU’s Saturday night matchup with Utah at the Jon M. Huntsman Center, followed an inconsistent ...
Salt Lake City — A week after it went on the road and led for just two minutes and 26 seconds in a decisive loss to rival Kansas State, the Kansas men’s basketball team did even worse on Saturday: It never led at all. Even as Utah underwent scoreless stretches of 5:06 in the first half and 7:17 in the second, the Jayhawks were able to tie the game on several occasions but never quite get over the hump. Most ...
After rekindling a rivalry with an old conference foe in Tuesday’s victory over Colorado, the Kansas men’s basketball team is now in uncharted territory as it travels to Utah for a five-day continuous swing featuring games against Utah and BYU. “I think this is great,” KU coach Bill Self said. “We didn’t get a Thanksgiving trip, we didn’t get a trip in November that’s a team bonding trip where ...
First pitch for the third season of Kansas baseball under head coach Dan Fitzgerald is set for 5 p.m. on Friday at Whataburger Field, as the Jayhawks travel for a four-game series on the road at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Sophomore standout Dominic Voegele will make his return to the mound for the Jayhawks after becoming the first player in program history to receive preseason All-American honors from three ...