An experienced Kansas women’s basketball team looking to find its way back to the NCAA Tournament learned on Thursday morning exactly what sort of challenges await it this year. The Big 12 Conference announced its 18-game conference schedule, which begins before the new year and concludes ahead of the league tournament on March 3. The schedule unfolds mainly on Wednesdays and either Saturdays or Sundays this ...
ISLEWORTH, England — When the Kansas football team headed out to practice on Wednesday afternoon in the suburban London district of Osterley, some 4,400 miles from Lawrence, they might not have seen anything particularly familiar — outside of the sign touting a Mr. Dineen as head teacher at the Sikh school across the parking lot. But as parents were streaming in to pick their kids up from that Nishkam ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team received a commitment on Monday evening from Kawehi Borden, a 6-foot guard from Sumner, Washington. Borden made her announcement on Instagram. She had reported previous offers from BYU, Oregon, Seton Hall, TCU, Utah and Washington, and now joins guard Amillia Prochnow of Overland Park in KU’s class of 2027. Rivals lists Borden as a four-star recruit. As a junior at Sumner ...
If the Kansas defensive backs need to be convinced of the potential benefits of playing more aggressive coverage, beginning on Saturday against Arizona State, they need only look at their own body of work for evidence. On one particular snap in Friday’s loss to Missouri, cornerback Austin Alexander played stifling defense on a wide receiver. It was such good work that defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald added ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team learned the first couple pieces of information about its Big 12 Conference schedule on Monday morning with the announcement of a pair of ESPN Big Monday games for the season ahead. The Jayhawks will travel to Houston to face the Cougars at the Fertitta Center on Feb. 1 and then host Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse on March 1. Both games will take place at 8 p.m. and be ...
When college football teams have received opportunities to play international games in recent years, they have invariably occurred either at the very start of the season or during the postseason. Kansas and Arizona State will be the first teams to reckon with the novelty of a rare experience — the Union Jack Classic will make them the first power-conference football teams to play in the United Kingdom — ...