Kansas picked up the commitment of one transfer guard Sunday, is one of the top choices for another and has now placed itself in contention for a third. With the services of Florida transfer Riley Kugel already secured and Lawrence native Zeke Mayo considering making the move from South Dakota State, KU is firmly in the conversation for former Toledo guard Dante Maddox Jr. Sam Kayser of 24/7 High School Hoops ...
Updated 3:07 p.m. Sunday: The Kansas men's basketball team picked up its first transfer of the offseason on Easter Sunday when former Florida guard Riley Kugel announced that he will join the Jayhawks next year. Kugel, a native of Orlando, Florida, averaged 9.2 points and 3.5 rebounds per game for the Gators as a sophomore during the 2023-24 season, a slight scoring downturn after a breakout first year that ...
Kansas’ new offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes has said his quarterbacks will take some snaps under center this year. “How much we do under center just kind of depends on the personnel of the team,” he added. For example, he did more when he was at Baylor with Gerry Bohanon than in later years with the Bears; he did less at BYU with Zach Wilson than he had previously. That willingness to adapt could be ...
Just before Kansas took the field to battle Kansas State last November, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace asked Devin Neal — who had a pending decision to make about going to the NFL or staying for another year — whether it was going to be his last game in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. “He said, ‘We’ll find out,’” Wallace recalled on Thursday. “And I asked him that because I wanted to ...
Updated 11:20 p.m. Saturday: The college basketball season hasn’t even come to a close yet, but Kansas is well into its offseason and is already making moves in the transfer portal. South Dakota State transfer guard Zeke Mayo, who is a native of Lawrence, and Florida transfer guard Riley Kugel have each listed KU in their top four schools in the early stages of the recruiting process. Either would have a ...
The latest attempt at a spring football league has been formed by a merger of two others, and the new league’s rosters contain four players who finished their college football careers at the University of Kansas. After the XFL and USFL announced their merger on Dec. 31 to form the United Football League, the two leagues reduced their combined size from 16 teams down to eight and then held a dispersal draft to ...