Any chance of signing-day drama for the Kansas football team was extinguished very early Wednesday morning. By 9:30 a.m., the Jayhawks had officially announced the signings of each of their 17 expected high school recruits for the class of 2024. “I think we hit our needs, of course, like everyone always talks about,” head coach Lance Leipold told reporters later on Wednesday. “But I think this is a ...
A battle between former conference rivals that went down to the wire on two occasions last season — a triple-overtime meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, then a hard-fought Women’s National Invitation Tournament matchup in Lawrence — featured far less drama Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. The Kansas women’s basketball team embarked on an 18-3 run in the second quarter and never let Nebraska draw close ...
It’s time to close the book on a wide-ranging year of University of Kansas sports, one that saw some programs continue their upward trajectories and others begin the process of reinventing themselves completely. Here are a few of the most significant storylines that defined 2023 for KU, plus quite a few more that merit mentioning. March 9 and on: Head coach Bill Self endures health scare, misses end of ...
Freshman guard Johnny Furphy will miss Friday’s game against Yale due to “a family commitment that he had to be at,” Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said Monday night. “Certainly, we’ve known this for months, that this could potentially happen,” Self said on his “Hawk Talk” radio show. “So we will be without Johnny on Friday.” Self added that Furphy was originally supposed to leave ...
For Kansas' ebullient assistant coach Jim Zebrowski, "every day is good," as he put it. But Friday was "kind of a special day," he admitted, just as he sat down for a pre-Guaranteed Rate Bowl media availability. Just hours earlier, his son Zach had been announced as the winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy, presented to the most valuable player in NCAA Division II football. “It's so awesome, he's having a ...
Bloomington, Ind. — The offensive struggles that had hamstrung Kansas all afternoon subsided at the most convenient possible time for the Jayhawks. KU went on a 16-5 run to claim its first lead of the game over Indiana on a hook shot from Hunter Dickinson with 4:53 to go; Kevin McCullar Jr. drained a no-hesitation deep 3-pointer a minute and a half later, and the red-hot Hoosier Trey Galloway missed a ...