The Kansas softball team stumbled on the road in Lubbock, Texas, dropping two of three to Texas Tech, which previously had just four conference wins on the season. The Red Raiders battled back from a three-run deficit to win 6-5 on Friday, then erased multiple four-run KU leads on Saturday, only for the Jayhawks to take a 15-12 victory in extra innings. The rubber match Sunday saw both offenses stall and ...
The Kansas women's basketball team has earned a key transfer commitment as it works on building a new-look roster for the 2024-25 season. Sania Copeland, a 5-foot-7 transfer guard from Wisconsin, announced on Instagram Monday afternoon that she will join KU next season and wrote that she is "home for good." Copeland is from Kansas City, Kansas, and played at Olathe North High School, making her the latest ...
Kansas super-senior Taiyanna Jackson was selected in the WNBA Draft Monday night, making her the Jayhawks’ first player picked in nine years and the first under head coach Brandon Schneider. The 6-foot-6 center went in the second round to the Connecticut Sun at pick No. 19 overall. The last KU player to get selected in the WNBA Draft was forward Chelsea Gardner, who went to the Indiana Fever in 2015. In ...
The Kansas football program has only had one player drafted since 2020. It will almost certainly exceed that total in a single draft later this month, with offensive lineman Dominick Puni and defensive end Austin Booker expected to go in the middle rounds of the 2024 NFL Draft. If either player goes in the third round, he would become the highest-drafted Jayhawk since Aqib Talib went 20th overall in 2008. In ...
The Kansas football team introduced fans to its 2024 squad at the annual Spring Showcase on Friday night, treating a crowd of loyal fans to a cycle of practice drills followed by about an hour of scrimmage action. The event was held at KU’s soccer complex at Rock Chalk Park, at one of the four fields on which the Jayhawks have practiced this spring with David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium under construction ...
With a glut of experienced players on the Jayhawks’ roster, Kansas head coach Lance Leipold previously said he wants KU’s annual Spring Showcase to be “probably the same as last year, if not less,” in contrast with a more traditional spring game. That should help moderate expectations for the intensity of Friday’s pseudo-scrimmage event, given that last year’s edition already had a rather loose ...