Updated Sunday at 9:30 p.m. Simmering unease among Kansas fans was threatening to boil over Sunday afternoon until KU football coach Lance Leipold posted on X, "The guys come back to campus tomorrow. Can’t wait to get back to work with them in ‘24!! Rock Chalk!!" An increasing number of reports had begun to connect Leipold with the University of Washington's opening for a new head coach, including ...
After losing a pair of linemen to the transfer portal, Kansas has now added two new players to the position group. KU earned the commitment of Iowa State transfer guard Darrell Simmons Jr., Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com reported Sunday. Simmons' commitment follows that of Tiffin transfer Shane Bumgardner, who pledged to join the Jayhawks last week. Bumgardner could slot in as KU's new center, while Simmons ...
Kansas had a tough time closing out its first two conference games against TCU and UCF; one resulted in a last-second win, one in a crushing loss on the road. Back home Saturday, Kansas found a second-half run it hadn’t been able to string together in either of its first two games of conference play. In fact, it found two. The Jayhawks used 11-2 and 9-0 stretches in the later stages of Saturday’s game to ...
Hunter Dickinson has established himself as one of the preeminent college basketball players in a variety of domains over the course of four seasons. Blocking shots, though, has not necessarily been his calling card. At Michigan, the center averaged about a block and a half per game; so far in his first season at Kansas he had been about half a block worse, prior to Saturday and hadn’t rejected a shot in ...
No. 3 Kansas and No. 9 Oklahoma both found themselves casualties of a wild week in college basketball. Within a matter of hours Wednesday night, each school lost on the road to an unranked Big 12 Conference foe: OU at TCU, KU at UCF. Those unexpected results came on the heels of No. 2 Houston’s loss at Iowa State on Tuesday, to say nothing of the chaos unfolding in other conferences: No. 1 Purdue couldn’t ...
Kansas running back Devin Neal will return for his senior season. Neal announced the decision in a social media video posted Thursday afternoon. His plan to return to KU was first reported by ESPN on Dec. 26, just before KU's victory in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. The video reflects on Neal's decision to stay in his hometown of Lawrence to help build up the KU program. "I've never shied away from anything, ...