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 ...
Kansas forward Brie Severns scored in her return from injury and the Jayhawks sent nine shots on goal to South Dakota State's two, but the Jackrabbits converted on both those opportunities and won 2-1 in an exhibition match at Rock Chalk Park Friday afternoon. SDSU's Maya Hansen, the reigning Summit League offensive player of the year, and fellow super-senior Reagan Anderson netted on either side of the ...
The Kansas women's basketball team began the earliest stages of its highly anticipated 2022-23 campaign with a bang Wednesday in Rome, jumping out to a 14-point lead following the first quarter and extending it all the way to a 99-58 victory over an Italian Select team. Highly touted freshman guard S'Mya Nichols led the way with 22 points in her first collegiate action, and senior center Taiyanna Jackson, one ...