WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU soccer held to draw at Kansas City

Hallie Klanke continued her red-hot start to the 2023 season with a goal just after halftime, but Kansas City equalized two minutes later and held Kansas to a 1-1 road draw at Durwood Soccer Stadium Thursday night. KU coach Mark Francis and assistant Kelly Miller each coached their 500th game at KU Thursday night, but it was Jess Smith, the former Jayhawk now at the helm of the Kansas City program, who led the ...

Kansas volleyball wins pair of matches in Wichita

The Kansas volleyball team continued its early-season success away from home, beating Wichita State (25-22, 25-19, 22-25, 25-23) and Colorado (25-23, 25-27, 25-17, 25-20) in a pair of tight 3-1 matches in Wichita on Thursday and Friday to improve to 5-1 on the season. Reigning Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week Camryn Turner racked up 53 assists against the Shockers and 33 more against the ...

Notebook: KU sends out two quarterbacks to open Friday's game

Kansas somehow found a way to have both Jason Bean and Jalon Daniels start Friday night, an unusual but fitting development following the last month of speculation about Daniels’ back injury. In an extremely on-brand wrinkle from offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki, Daniels came out in the shotgun with Bean at his side, faked a handoff to his fellow quarterback and hit Lawrence Arnold for his first ...

Week 2 preview: Illinois result could alter trajectory of KU's season

Illinois coach Bret Bielema knows how much Friday's game means to his opponent. As he put it in a press conference Tuesday, "Kansas has targeted this game for a long time." "You know, when we agreed to move this game to Friday, they moved their (Missouri State) game to Friday so it's not as big a break or they didn't gain two days of advantage," he said in a press conference Tuesday "... I know they got new ...

KU golfer Belisle earns first career victory to open Jayhawks' season

Kansas' Cecil Belisle opened his senior season with a bang this week, shooting a 1-under 212 in three rounds at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Grand Haven, Michigan, and winning his first event as a Jayhawk. Belisle began the event with a 3-under 68 on Monday to tie for second place right away, then stayed consistent with a pair of 1-over 72s Tuesday and Wednesday to claim victory by a one-stroke ...

KU comes in fifth, Texas No. 1 in inaugural Big 12 power rankings

The Texas Longhorns, set to leave for the Southeastern Conference after this season, received 11 of a possible 14 first-place votes in a new Big 12 Conference football power ranking from a panel of 14 beat writers that regularly cover the conference. Oklahoma, Kansas State and UCF each received one first-place vote. Kansas came in fifth following its season-opening victory over Football Championship Subdivision ...