Kansas super-senior Taiyanna Jackson was selected in the WNBA Draft Monday night, making her the Jayhawks’ first player picked in nine years and the first under head coach Brandon Schneider. The 6-foot-6 center went in the second round to the Connecticut Sun at pick No. 19 overall. The last KU player to get selected in the WNBA Draft was forward Chelsea Gardner, who went to the Indiana Fever in 2015. In ...
The Kansas football program has only had one player drafted since 2020. It will almost certainly exceed that total in a single draft later this month, with offensive lineman Dominick Puni and defensive end Austin Booker expected to go in the middle rounds of the 2024 NFL Draft. If either player goes in the third round, he would become the highest-drafted Jayhawk since Aqib Talib went 20th overall in 2008. In ...
The Kansas football team introduced fans to its 2024 squad at the annual Spring Showcase on Friday night, treating a crowd of loyal fans to a cycle of practice drills followed by about an hour of scrimmage action. The event was held at KU’s soccer complex at Rock Chalk Park, at one of the four fields on which the Jayhawks have practiced this spring with David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium under construction ...
With a glut of experienced players on the Jayhawks’ roster, Kansas head coach Lance Leipold previously said he wants KU’s annual Spring Showcase to be “probably the same as last year, if not less,” in contrast with a more traditional spring game. That should help moderate expectations for the intensity of Friday’s pseudo-scrimmage event, given that last year’s edition already had a rather loose ...
Kansas guard Johnny Furphy could have a chance to represent his country at the Olympics in Paris this summer. Furphy was chosen on Wednesday for a 22-man preliminary squad from which Australia will pick its final roster of 12. Basketball Australia’s official press release refers to the young selection as a “US college enigma.” The native of Melbourne, Australia, came to KU from the Centre of Excellence, ...
This is the fourth time Daryl Agpalsa has come into a veteran offensive line room as its new coach, and he fully acknowledges that he hasn't always found the right balance between his own way of thinking and his players'. “I’ve done this before and I’ve failed, if I’m being completely honest," he said Thursday, and later added, “I made the mistake, probably, earlier on in my career of saying, ‘Hey, ...