Talandra Griffen’s choice of driving music may have had further-reaching consequences than either she or her son could have anticipated. Something about hearing Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” in her car made an impact on Rylan Griffen. She used to play it on a daily basis. “I don’t know why,” said Griffen, a junior wing who transferred to Kansas from Alabama this past offseason. “She used to ...
For the second season in a row and the fifth overall, the Kansas men’s basketball team will begin the year ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll. The Jayhawks, who received exactly half of the first-place votes from the 60-member panel, will look to convert that mark into a championship for the first time, after 2004-05 ended in a first-round elimination and 2009-10, 2018-19 and most recently ...
Time will tell if Kansas' first bye week of the season helped cure its on-field ills, but in the near term, it may not have done enough for the Jayhawks' physical health. Asked how much the bye week helped injured players get back into action, Leipold said, "Not as much as I had hoped yet right now, to be truthful." "We’ve still got a lot of guys that are questionable, working through it," he continued. ...
There was a time near the conclusion of the 2023-24 season when, as Kansas coach Bill Self put it, “That was not a very good team we were putting out there at the end.” The Jayhawks were thin from the start of the year but at one point were even missing both of their top two scorers, Kevin McCullar Jr. and Hunter Dickinson, in the Big 12 tournament due to injuries. Looking back, Self said it reminded him ...
During the first few weeks of the college football season, the popular narrative about Kansas and its early-season struggles was that new coordinator Jeff Grimes, Jalon Daniels and the offense were letting down a resurgent, high-intensity, physical KU defense. That storyline got twisted on Sept. 21 in Morgantown, West Virginia, after a lengthy lightning delay, when the Jayhawks’ defense needed just one stop ...
As Kansas coach Nate Lie put it on Thursday, after his Jayhawks battled back twice to earn a hard-won 2-2 draw against BYU, "A tie is nothing to celebrate." Lie, in a press release, praised his team's effort and resilience, particularly after it had struggled in a 3-0 home loss to Oklahoma State the previous weekend. As he noted, BYU is a talented team less than a year removed from a Final Four appearance. But ...