Kansas football doubled the size of its 2025 recruiting class Sunday when it earned the commitment of Malachi Curvey from Waukee, Iowa, a three-star athlete as assessed by Rivals and 247Sports and a four-star at On3. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Curvey could play on either side of the ball as a Jayhawk, as he has been variously assessed as a prospective tight end, outside linebacker or edge rusher during his ...
One of Kansas men’s basketball’s most impressive streaks is still alive. KU’s Hunter Dickinson laid the ball up and in from between two defenders with 3.4 seconds left, TCU’s Jameer Nelson Jr. came up short on a wild shot from beyond the arc as time expired and the Jayhawks won their conference opener, for the 33rd consecutive season, by a score of 83-81. Thus KU opened its latest Big 12 Conference ...
When former Kansas men's basketball coach Ted Owens gets together with his former players, he told the current KU team Friday, “Nobody remembers who the leading scorers were." Instead, they reflect on what they accomplished together. One of Owens’ greatest teams in 19 years at KU was reunited for just that sort of reflection in Lawrence on Saturday. The 1973-74 squad got honored on the James Naismith Court ...
TCU stormed into Lawrence last January, led for 39 minutes and left with its first-ever road victory at Allen Fieldhouse. It was an 83-60 “beatdown,” as Kansas coach Bill Self called it then, and one of KU’s worst home losses in recent history. “They came in here and got after us, I remember that,” guard Kevin McCullar Jr. said Thursday, adding that Self had reminded the team about it at practice. ...
The year 2023 featured a conference championship in men’s basketball, a Women’s National Invitation Tournament title in women’s basketball, broken records in women’s golf, a football bowl victory and plenty more. What will 2024 have in store? As usual, the Kansas athletic department features an intriguing mix of programs on the rise and more established teams looking to secure their position in the ...
The writing was on the wall when he opted out of the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, but Kansas defensive end Austin Booker made his departure official Thursday when he announced on Instagram that he will enter the 2024 NFL Draft. In his post, he thanked head coach Lance Leipold, defensive tackles coach Jim Panagos and the rest of his support system at KU — "it felt like family and I will be forever grateful for the ...