WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Future Jayhawks represent KU in McDonald's All-American Game

Two future Jayhawks represented Kansas in the McDonald’s All-American Game on Tuesday night in Glendale, Arizona. Guard Taylen Kinney of Newport, Kentucky, played for the East team in the boys’ game, while center Cydnee Bryant of Riverside, California, played for the West team in the girls’ game. Kinney, the men's program's 53rd signee to earn the McDonald's honor, recorded five points on 2-for-8 ...

Another offseason brings development for last year's breakout player Harris

Leroy Harris III’s performance as a sophomore in 2025 might have come out of the blue for Kansas fans, and perhaps even for his own coaches, after he arrived as an unheralded transfer from Chattanooga. Not so much for Harris himself. “It was never a surprise,” he said. The 6-foot-5 defensive end from Brentwood, Tennessee, ultimately earned enough playing time as to receive more snaps on the season than ...

How KU's new Australian punter Gill became an American football player

Last July, Matt Gill moved from Sydney to Melbourne to train in a sport he had never previously played at a newly established punting academy that had not yet produced a player. By the end of October, Gill was receiving interest from American colleges, and by January he was signed to play at Kansas. “Never played in a football game ever to now he’s going to open up Week 1 versus LIU,” long snapper Rino ...

BYU will get another shot at KU in WBIT semifinal

Updated 4:06 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2026: When the full results of the WBIT quarterfinals were not yet known on Thursday night, Kansas coach Brandon Schneider said he had enjoyed preparing for new opponents over the course of the tournament. The second-seeded Jayhawks have handled a series of unfamiliar mid-major challengers with aplomb during the postseason, dispatching Troy, Rice and San Diego State, without ...

KU baseball piles on 9 runs in 9th inning to take series at No. 25 Cincinnati

The Kansas baseball team broke open a 4-4 tie with nine runs in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati and ultimately claimed a 13-6 victory in the rubber match of a three-game series with the 25th-ranked Bearcats. Shortstop Tyson LeBlanc hit an opposite-field grand slam and catcher Augusto Mungarrieta clubbed another two-run homer as part of the big inning, which lifted KU to a win on a day when ...

KU softball wins series at BYU

Three weekends of conference play have now yielded three series wins for the Kansas softball team, which took two out of three games against BYU at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. After losing on a walk-off home run on Friday night, the Jayhawks were able to regroup and win the decisive third game, something they have done in each of their Big 12 series. This time, they did it by a score of 10-3 on Saturday. KU is ...