For most of the 2022-23 season, Kansas freshman Will King only occasionally placed among the top golfers on his own team. As recently as the Big 12 Conference Men’s Golf Championship, he ranked last among five Jayhawk competitors. It wasn’t until the end of the campaign, and his white-knuckle qualification out of NCAA regionals, that he found himself consistently going head to head with the best in the Big ...
The Kansas football team is still just over two months away from assembling its 2023 team for fall camp, but its coaches are already far along in the process of shaping the 2024 squad. The Jayhawks secured their fifth commitment in the 2024 freshman class Sunday, beating out 12 other Division I schools, including Big 12 foes Iowa State, Kansas State and Texas, for the services of Jonathan Kamara. The 6-foot-4, ...
A discus flew 4 centimeters farther, a runner finished half a second faster and a pair of Kansas track and field athletes earned their places at the NCAA Championships by the narrowest of margins. At the NCAA West Preliminary in Sacramento, Calif., Friday afternoon, KU sophomore thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis edged out UCLA's Aidan Elbettar for 12th place in the discus, as Elbettar's final mark of 56.82 meters ...
Kansas men’s basketball head coach Bill Self’s hospitalization and ensuing recovery in March caused him to miss five KU postseason games, three in the Big 12 Conference tournament and two in the NCAA Tournament. That flare-up, which required a heart catheterization and the installment of two stents, was actually the culmination of longer-term lingering discomfort, as Self explained Thursday on The Field of ...
The Kansas men’s track and field team built on its third-place showing at the Big 12 Conference Championships earlier this month with a strong start to Wednesday’s NCAA West Preliminary in Sacramento, Calif., qualifying a pair of Jayhawks for June's national tournament. Pole vaulter Clayton Simms posted KU’s top performance on the night in its final field event, finishing fifth at 5.40 meters to punch his ...
Kansas’ run at the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament isn’t quite over yet, but it sustained a series of punishing blows in the sixth inning Thursday night. An inning that began with small ball for TCU — a single to first base, a walk, a soft-hit ball up the middle to score a run and chase Jayhawks pitcher Ethan Bradford — got big very quickly when Horned Frogs third baseman Brayden Taylor sent a ...