Former Kansas guard Arterio Morris now plans to play basketball at Los Angeles Southwest College, a junior college in the West Athens area of Los Angeles, this season, its head coach Mack Cleveland told the Journal-World Saturday. Jonatan Rivera, a basketball coach commonly cited as Morris’ mentor, confirmed the news. Cleveland said Morris has been enrolled in LA Southwest since late September. Rivera said ...
The 16th-ranked Kansas volleyball team rebounded from a pair of losses at Texas last weekend and beat a fellow departing member of the Big 12 Conference, Oklahoma, in a 3-0 sweep (25-20, 25-21, 25-18) Saturday afternoon. Looking for their first league win of the year, on the road in Lawrence, the Sooners kept it close in each of their three sets with the Jayhawks but couldn’t pull through. Reagan Cooper and ...
Stillwater, Okla. — Oklahoma State’s defense didn’t stand a chance against the Kansas passing game for the better part of three quarters, but halted the Jayhawks three times when it needed to most. Kendal Daniels and Dylan Smith each picked off Jason Bean once, but the Cowboys could only turn those opportunities into three combined points. What really made the difference was a fourth-down strip-sack by ...
Stillwater, Okla. — Before the unsuccessful fourth-and-5 with seven minutes left that derailed Kansas' fourth quarter, there was a personal foul for a hit after the whistle, assessed to running back Devin Neal, which all but canceled out a key 20-yard catch by Trevor Kardell. "I don’t know," KU coach Lance Leipold said. "It’s amazing sometimes what’s decided to be called and what’s not in this league. ...
For Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, stopping the Kansas rushing attack means focusing on the triple option. As he sees it, KU offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki is a “traditional wishbone guy,” and much of the success the Jayhawks have had in recent weeks — most recently, they put up a 399-yard performance against UCF last Saturday — stems from the classic concepts of a triple-option ...
Big 12 Conference coaches picked the Kansas men’s basketball team to finish first in the league this season in a poll released Friday morning. Twelve coaches selected KU for the top spot. It is the 20th of 28 Big 12 seasons in which KU has been picked first or to tie for first. This year, the No. 1 ranking reflects widespread confidence in a revamped KU squad despite a competitive Big 12, as the Jayhawks add ...