Manhattan — Kansas wide receiver Luke Grimm has been in the program long enough — having witnessed a 55-14 loss to Kansas State his freshman year — to understand what a Sunflower Showdown victory could have done for the Jayhawks. He and his teammates were one good drive away, on either of two occasions, from getting to experience one for the first time on Saturday night. After all the chaos and ...
The Kansas men's basketball team will face Indiana in Las Vegas on Nov. 12, 2027, the Hall of Fame Series event announced on Sunday afternoon. “I just think it’s hard to pass up being part of something that’s going to be the focal point of all of the eyeballs in college basketball," KU coach Bill Self said on Monday. The game will take place as part of a doubleheader with an Arizona-Duke matchup, and it ...
The ninth-ranked Kansas volleyball team continued its unbeaten start to Big 12 play on Saturday afternoon, sweeping Utah 25-16, 25-21, 25-22 to improve to 18-1 (9-0 in league matches) on the season. Opposite hitter London Davis led the way for the Jayhawks with 11 kills on .429 hitting and setter Camryn Turner tallied 32 assists as KU recorded its 11th victory in straight sets this year. Senior middle blocker ...
Manhattan — The Kansas football team went into halftime of the 122nd Sunflower Showdown on Saturday night down just two points, a reasonably solid outcome given that host Kansas State had entered as the heavy favorite. But the 16-14 deficit looked vastly worse in the context of all that preceded it: a dropped touchdown pass that could have put the Jayhawks up 14-0 early, a bizarre special-teams blunder that ...
Manhattan — Lawrence native Devin Neal will have to wait until the next game to become Kansas football’s all-time rushing leader. Neal entered Saturday night with 3,769 career rushing yards and passed second-place Tony Sands (3,788) in the first half, but was not able to eclipse June Henley’s mark of 3,841 over the course of the Sunflower Showdown at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The Kansas State defense, ...
Kansas head coach Lance Leipold continues to stand by what he's been saying throughout his tenure: “To make games rivalries, you got to make them close and competitive.” The Jayhawks suffered a mistake-laden loss to rival Kansas State by four points last year after failing to score for the final 28 minutes. To hear Leipold’s K-State counterpart Chris Klieman tell it, “It’s turning into a great ...