Missouri will make its latest attempt to reverse the course of its rivalry when it visits Allen Fieldhouse Saturday for this year’s edition of the Border Showdown. The Tigers have lost eight of the last nine matchups against the Jayhawks, including both meetings since the rivalry first got renewed as a nonconference contest in 2021 — 102-65 in Lawrence that year and 95-67 in Columbia last season. Because ...
Updated 4:25 p.m. Dec. 7: Former Baylor and BYU offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes will assume the role of assistant head coach/offensive coordinator for the Kansas football team, KU Athletics officially announced Thursday afternoon. Grimes replaces Andy Kotelnicki, who left for the offensive coordinator job at Penn State last week after three seasons at KU. Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger was first to report ...
When new Kansas coach Nate Lie addressed his team for the first time Tuesday, he said, there was a moment where he hesitated and was wondering how to begin. Lie had become thoroughly ingrained in the routines he had built over seven seasons coaching at Xavier. Now, after having spent so much of his life and career in Ohio that athletic director Travis Goff referred to him as “Mr. Ohio” during the search ...
Updated 3 p.m. Dec. 5: Kansas great Thomas Robinson will have his jersey retired at halftime of Saturday's game against Missouri, KU coach Bill Self said on his "Hawk Talk" radio show Monday night. Self called the gesture and opponent "perfectly fitting." “He’s been back, but this will mean a ton to him, because he loves this place and this place obviously changed his life," Self said. The 6-foot-10 ...
Kansas started fast against Kansas City behind an unbelievable opening few minutes from Kevin McCullar Jr., but of course the Jayhawks had come out just as strong last week against Eastern Illinois and nearly found themselves on the wrong end of a historic upset. What really mattered Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse, particularly after a sloppy performance entering halftime, was how KU played down the stretch. ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said prior to the Eastern Illinois game that he didn’t expect UConn or Missouri to be the sort of games in which he could afford to give a lot of minutes to his bench players. Missouri still awaits on Saturday, but he was certainly right about Friday's win over UConn. Fifth starter Elmarko Jackson played a career-high 32 minutes and Johnny Furphy acquitted himself well in 14 as the ...