Oklahoma City — The Kansas softball team opened its matchup against Oklahoma on Thursday with three straight hits and then did not record another for the remainder of the game. Those three hits amounted to just one run. And in the ensuing innings, the Sooners did what the Sooners tend to do with their second-ranked scoring offense, piling on one score after another against multiple KU pitchers, and beat the ...
Kansas “caught a break” by getting Hunter Dickinson back for a fifth season, as head coach Bill Self put it Monday. Even though he hasn’t been a marquee professional prospect, the second-team All-American center already played four accomplished seasons in college, went through senior-night festivities and could have decided to move on. Now that he’s back, though, Self has pinpointed some areas for the ...
Florida transfer wing Riley Kugel will not attend Kansas, according to multiple reports Wednesday afternoon. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was first to report the news, which follows a comment by KU coach Bill Self in an interview with the NCAA Monday about the prospect of the long-committed Kugel joining the team was "up in the air." Self did not provide the reasoning for the commitment's uncertainty. Kugel, ...
The Kansas football coaching staff returned to the Division II ranks and added an intriguing transfer at a position of need. Leyton Cure, a native of Goodland who played at Fort Hays State, announced his commitment to KU Wednesday evening. Cure is a 6-foot-3, 235-pound tight end who had 26 catches for 281 yards and two touchdowns as a redshirt freshman in 2022. He will join a position group that, with DeShawn ...
The Kansas women’s golf team finished sixth of 12 teams at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional in Washington state on Wednesday. The Jayhawks outperformed their No. 9 seed, but fell one place short of what they would have needed to make their first NCAA Championship in 10 years. "I am really proud of the way we fought today," KU coach Lindsay Kuhle said in a press release Wednesday evening. "It was another difficult ...
Oklahoma City — Sophomore shortstop Hailey Cripe tied a Big 12 Conference record by driving in five runs, becoming just the fifth player to do so in the league’s softball tournament, and she led the Kansas softball team to a 6-5 win over Houston at Devon Park on Wednesday night. Cripe hit a two-run home run in the first inning and then cleared the bases with a two-out double in the fourth. She had ...