Kansas basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. have officially been invited to participate in the NBA Draft Combine, the NBA announced Friday afternoon. The event, which provides an opportunity for NBA hopefuls to work out for and get evaluated by professional teams, will take place at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis in Chicago for a week beginning May 12. For McCullar, this marks a ...
Sean McDermott remembers a piece of advice that Joe Marciano, his special teams coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, gave him and his fellow undrafted free agents back in 2001. The battle for an NFL roster, he recalled Marciano saying, is like a boxing match. A tie, in terms of on-field performance, will go to an incumbent veteran over an upstart rookie. “He’s got real tape. He’s got a proven ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team is involved in recruiting yet another high-scoring transfer. Jordan Ivy-Curry, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard from La Marque, Texas, who most recently played UTSA, was slated to have a Zoom call with KU on Friday, The Portal Report and Shay Wildeboor of JayhawkSlant.com reported. Despite coming off the bench and playing just 27 minutes per game, Ivy-Curry averaged 17.1 points ...
The transfer portal officially closed Wednesday night. After having eight players decide to enter last offseason and seven ultimately depart, the Kansas men’s basketball team is poised to emerge unscathed from this year’s cycle. All indications are that KU has successfully retained every possible player from last season’s roster, with the exception of freshman Johnny Furphy, who is currently in the NBA ...
The Kansas football team earned its first commitment out of the spring transfer portal window on Thursday afternoon when former Michigan offensive lineman Amir Herring announced that he will join the Jayhawks next season. “It just feels really good to know where I'm going,” Herring told Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com. “You know there are a lot of special people in that building working ... countless hours ...
A series of ill-timed defensive errors in the middle innings sank the Kansas softball team in Thursday’s series opener at Arrocha Ballpark, as the Jayhawks fell 8-6 to BYU. “Routine outs that we make every day in practice — mentally, physically, just didn’t execute in those situations,” KU coach Jennifer McFalls said. “(We) let a little pressure situations get to us and eat us up tonight.” KU ...