After the Kansas men’s basketball team knocked off Oklahoma on the road and Texas at home without the injured Kevin McCullar Jr., it started to seem like its blowout loss at Texas Tech on Feb. 12 in his absence was an outlier. But Tuesday night’s home loss to BYU saw the Jayhawks struggle to defend or score on the perimeter and — perhaps most crucially when it came to the final result — hit free throws. ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team is now facing a future without potentially its best all-around player. On Saturday night, that future looked brighter than expected. Playing without do-everything super-senior guard Kevin McCullar Jr. for the fourth time in seven games — but this time on a night when KU coach Bill Self expressed concern about getting McCullar back from his bone bruise at any point this ...
The Kansas softball team picked up five wins in four days at the Texas A&M Invitational — including three by run rule — but one in particular gave a jolt to their season. KU defeated the host Aggies, who were ranked No. 17 in the nation, 1-0 on Saturday night, behind Kasey Hamilton’s seven shutout innings in the circle and Olivia Bruno’s go-ahead home run in the final frame. “I’m so proud of ...
Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas played the sort of game in which Parker Braun could mishandle a layup attempt off an errant lob pass, only for KJ Adams to corral Braun’s miss and make a contested close-range shot. It was the sort of game in which a 3-point attempt by Texas’ Tyrese Hunter could get stuck in between the rim and the backboard, only for the Longhorns to miss an open look at a hook ...
The defensive matchup against Texas had looked like a massive test for Kansas. The Longhorns were bringing to Lawrence guard Max Abmas, a newly minted 3,000-point scorer in his career, one of just 12 men to reach that milestone — but not even the Longhorns’ top scorer of late, because they also have forward Dylan Disu, who entered Saturday's game leading the Big 12 Conference with 18.8 points per game since ...
Both Kansas and Texas are likely a couple games behind where they expected to be at this point in the season. KU, the preseason No. 1 team in the country and early favorite to win the Big 12 Conference, is 8-5 in league play and will have to rely on help from Baylor against Houston and the likes of UCF and rival Kansas State against Iowa State if it wants to snag a share of the title. The Jayhawks are in this ...