The Kansas football team continues to bolster its depth in the trenches via the transfer portal, and on Thursday it earned the commitment of North Dakota State transfer Javier Derritt for the upcoming season. The native of Warrensburg, Missouri, who attended St. Thomas Aquinas in Overland Park, played five seasons as a defensive tackle for the Bison and will spend his last year of eligibility with the ...
Orlando, Fla. — UCF could not have scripted a worse nine-minute stretch in the first half of its first-ever home Big 12 Conference game. The Knights saw an early lead fall by the wayside when Kansas embarked on a 23-5 run spearheaded by a hard-charging KJ Adams and stellar bench play. The Jayhawks led by as many as 16 points in the first half. “I told our guys in the under-4 timeout, ‘We’ve got to get ...
Orlando, Fla. — Kansas didn’t allow 10 straight points late in the first half against UCF just because it had center Hunter Dickinson sitting on the bench with two early fouls. The last four minutes of the first period Wednesday — during which KU coach Bill Self ultimately said, together with the first three minutes of the second half, “the game was lost, or the game was won, depending on which side ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said last Thursday of Big 12 Conference men’s basketball, “I think we have as many pleasant surprises as probably any league in the country.” At the time of his statement, Oklahoma and newcomer BYU, picked to finish respectively 12th and 13th in the league, instead found themselves 11th and 12th in the entire nation via the AP Top 25 poll. Then fellow new addition Cincinnati upset ...
The Kansas football team has finished a season ranked for the first time in 16 years. KU, which concluded the year at 9-4 with a bowl victory, earned a No. 23 ranking in the final AP Poll released following Monday's national championship game. This is just the eighth time the program has received a season-ending ranking; most recently, the Jayhawks were No. 7 after winning the Orange Bowl to conclude the 2007 ...
After losing Mike Novitsky and Dominick Puni to graduation, then Ar'maj Reed-Adams and Spencer Lovell to the transfer portal rather unexpectedly, the Kansas football team made a critical move to supplement its offensive line. KU secured the services of Shane Bumgardner, a 6-foot-3, 290-pound center who spent four years at Division II Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio, and announced his commitment on social ...