UConn has won 24 nonconference games in a row — including every game in an NCAA Tournament — by double digits, the longest such streak since 1950. Kansas just barely fended off Eastern Illinois on Tuesday by an eight-point margin. “We know that that wasn’t our best basketball," KU center Hunter Dickinson said Thursday, "and I think, what better opportunity to showcase how good of a team you are than to ...
The vaunted continuity of Lance Leipold’s Kansas coaching staff could soon be dealt a significant blow. KU offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki — the architect of the motion-heavy offense with spread concepts that helped restore the Jayhawks to national prominence over the past several years — is expected to assume the same position at Penn State, The Athletic's Bruce Feldman first reported Thursday ...
The Kansas football team came in at No. 6 in the final edition of the Big 12 Conference power rankings voted on by a panel of beat writers who cover the league. Iowa State surged into fourth place ahead of both Kansas and Kansas State after beating the Wildcats in the Farmageddon rivalry game. Texas, which remained at No. 1, and Oklahoma State, which comes in at No. 3 behind Oklahoma, will face off in the Big ...
Long before she was a unanimous first-team all-conference selection for Kansas, Reagan Cooper first experienced Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena as an outsider. “While I was at Tech, one of the main things we would talk about was how loud it was in here and how the fans were all on top of us,” said Cooper, who transferred from Texas Tech prior to the season for her final year of collegiate volleyball. ...
As a reward for its successful season in Lance Leipold's third year at the helm, the Kansas football team received a bevy of individual honors from the Big 12 Conference coaches Wednesday afternoon. Sophomore defensive end Austin Booker, who barely played in two seasons at Minnesota, joined KU as a transfer in the offseason and made an immediate impact as one of the premier pass rushers in the conference, ...
At some points early Tuesday night, the Jayhawks passed the ball so easily it looked like Eastern Illinois wasn’t even on the court; at others later on — the ones that will undoubtedly last in their memory — they made the sorts of uncharacteristic errors that plagued them during their turnover-prone showing at the Maui Invitational. It was an off-and-on sort of night, more off than on, for the Kansas ...