Kansas legend Danny Manning will be back in the Big 12 Conference next season. Manning has been hired as an assistant coach at Colorado, where his former KU teammate Tad Boyle is the head coach. The school announced the news Tuesday morning. "I'm very excited to join coach Boyle's staff," Manning said in a press release. "This staff has been together for quite some time and has had quite a bit of success, so I ...
After losing 10 consecutive games to conclude the regular season, the Kansas softball team slid to seventh in the Big 12 Conference and will play last-place Houston to open the league's postseason tournament Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Big 12 championship at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City is nearly 50% larger and a day longer this season after the league added three softball programs — ...
The Kansas baseball team held narrow leads in a pair of road matchups at rival Kansas State on Friday and Sunday but dropped both, falling 2-1 to the Wildcats in a key late-season series in Manhattan. KU fell to 13-11 in Big 12 Conference play, tied for fifth with Cincinnati, and 27-17 overall, while K-State improved to 12-12 with a 28-19 record on the year. On Friday, KU ace Reese Dutton was nursing a one-run ...
Kansas freshman Johnny Furphy had a season that exceeded "what anyone would ever imagine," head coach Bill Self said Monday, and now Self believes it will likely be Furphy's lone season at KU. Speaking to NCAA correspondent Andy Katz in an offseason video interview published Monday afternoon, Self said, "Chances are I think that he’ll probably stay in the draft, because I think he’ll go in the first ...
The Kansas men's basketball staff began what turned out to be an impressive run in the transfer portal back on March 31 when it earned the commitment of former Florida wing Riley Kugel. KU went on to earn commitments from — and, importantly, sign to financial aid agreements — guard Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State) and wings AJ Storr (Wisconsin) and Rylan Griffen (Alabama). Now there is some question as to ...
Kansas basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. have officially been invited to participate in the NBA Draft Combine, the NBA announced Friday afternoon. The event, which provides an opportunity for NBA hopefuls to work out for and get evaluated by professional teams, will take place at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis in Chicago for a week beginning May 12. For McCullar, this marks a ...