Freshman guard S'Mya Nichols led Kansas in scoring for the second consecutive exhibition game, center Danai Papadopoulou scored 14 points back in her native Greece, and Laia Conesa and Nadira Eltayeb each put up double-doubles as the KU women's basketball team beat Greek Select 108-52 on Sunday. The Jayhawks outrebounded Greek Select by a staggering 59-22 margin and used that dominance on the boards to build ...
In describing defensive end Austin Booker, any animal metaphor will do. His position coach Taiwo Onatolu calls the 6-foot-6, 245-pound lineman a "baby deer." "He can really open up and run," Onatolu said Monday. "So a guy that long that can change direction in (a) small area and still has that short-area quickness, that’s hard to find.” Teammate Hayden Hatcher opts for a less elegant reference point: the ...
As Kansas wide receivers coach Terry Samuel describes it, when a young receiver catches the ball, he's often so relieved that he ran the right route, and so shocked that it actually paid off, that he rarely knows what to do next. KU's receiving corps isn't quite that young anymore. The Jayhawks return a whopping seven of their top eight receivers from last season. Already possessing a firm grasp of the ...
It’s not out of the question, in a linebacker room led by position coach Chris Simpson, that a No. 4 player coming off the bench, “a utility guy that I could bounce around and get guys off the field" as Simpson puts it, could earn more snaps than one of his three starters. Simpson certainly saw it happen when he was working under head coach Lance Leipold at Buffalo. And the way this year’s position group ...
The Kansas men's basketball team opened its 2024 recruiting class with a bang when Flory Bidunga, a 6-foot-9 center ranked as the nation's best at his position and fifth-best overall, committed to join the Jayhawks next year. Bidunga, who attends Kokomo High in Kokomo, Indiana, and plays for the Indiana Elite amateur team, announced his decision at halftime of the Under Armour Elite 24 game for top high school ...
To bolster its diverse backfield going forward, the Kansas football team will look to one player in his first collegiate season and one in his last. Even with workhorse starter Devin Neal set for an encore after his strong 2022 campaign, Daniel Hishaw Jr. back after consecutive season-ending injuries and Sevion Morrison widening his role as a complementary piece, the Jayhawks can apparently never have too many ...