Texas has returned to the No. 1 spot in the Big 12 Conference power rankings. With Oklahoma’s upset loss to Kansas, the Longhorns – 29-point winners over BYU – moved back into the top spot in this week’s rankings. Texas picked up nine first-place votes in balloting of 14 beat writers that regularly cover the league, while the Sooners received four votes. Kansas State received the other first-place ...
Eight completed passes, 3.6 yards per carry, 10 first downs, 213 yards of total offense. The 2022 game against Iowa State at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium went down as a win for Kansas in the record books, but has remained one of the Jayhawks’ poorest offensive performances of the last two seasons. The Cyclones’ 3-3-5 defense essentially means that they start out with an extra safety dropped back for ...
This story will be updated. The Kansas Jayhawks got ready for the regular season with their last of a whopping five exhibition games, polishing off Division II Fort Hays State 73-55 at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night. Center Hunter Dickinson rode a strong first half to a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Kevin McCullar Jr. was his team’s leading scorer for the second exhibition in a row ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold said Monday that he admired how his Iowa State counterpart Matt Campbell steered his squad through distractions back in the summer — when the Cyclones saw an ever-growing number of their student-athletes disciplined in an ongoing sports gambling investigation — and still put the team on track for a good season (5-3, 4-1 Big 12 Conference so far). “A sign of an excellent head ...
It didn't take long for guard Nick Timberlake to get reminded of Sunday's perimeter-shooting disparity between Kansas and Illinois. Joe Dooley, the KU director of student-athlete development, made sure it was fresh in Timberlake's mind as he worked on his shooting back in Lawrence on Tuesday. "That was the first thing that he came over and said to me, pretty much," Timberlake said Tuesday, "was, ‘They got ...
The Kansas football program has received a ranking in the College Football Playoff’s top 25 teams for the first time in its history. The CFP’s 13-member selection committee unveiled its first rankings of the season Tuesday night live on ESPN, and it will continue ranking teams on a weekly basis until it selects its ultimate top four participants in early December. KU comes in at No. 21 in the first edition ...