The selection of UNLV for last season’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl came out of nowhere. Weeks of bowl projections had pitted Kansas against Big Ten Conference opponents like Northwestern and Maryland — understandable, given that the game’s conference tie-ins are with the Big Ten and Big 12. Instead, the pick went to the Las Vegas-based Rebels out of the Mountain West, not too far away from Phoenix. With 2024 ...
Updated 3:32 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9: Kansas guard Shakeel Moore broke his foot and will be out for six to eight weeks, a KU athletics spokesperson confirmed on Monday afternoon. The result is a second offseason loss that will deplete KU’s guard depth for the moment, albeit for a shorter time frame than sophomore Elmarko Jackson’s season-ending torn patellar tendon. As of Monday, the Jayhawks were exactly ...
Champaign, Ill. — In the week leading up to Kansas’ loss to Illinois, new KU offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes was asked if he thought it might be an advantage that the Illini hadn’t really seen much of how he planned to operate the Jayhawks’ offense. “I hope so,” he responded. When it came time to play, though, the Illini were the ones with the element of surprise. From when they brought out a ...
The 13th-ranked Kansas volleyball team continued to bolster its resume in nonconference play, taking down No. 24 Marquette on Friday and then Western Michigan on Saturday in Milwaukee to advance to 6-0 on the year. The Marquette match saw the Jayhawks bounce back from dropping the first set to dispatch the tournament host Golden Eagles 3-1, much as they had at Duke a week earlier (the final tally this time was ...
Champaign, Ill. — While Kansas guard Michael Ford Jr. was interested in the University of Illinois growing up, when it came time for his recruitment, he was “a MAC guy.” Ford, a native of Homewood, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs, didn’t garner significant power-conference interest out of high school and ended up going to Buffalo, indeed, in the Mid-American Conference, from which he followed Lance ...
Champaign, Ill. — Whatever Illinois defensive coordinator Aaron Henry learned by watching last year’s game against Kansas more than 100 times, he clearly imparted it to his defensive backs. Xavier Scott intercepted KU quarterback Jalon Daniels twice in the first half, including once for a defensive touchdown with 36 seconds remaining that allowed the Illini to take a sudden surge of momentum into the break. ...