The Kansas softball team claimed four straight wins over the course of Friday and Saturday, its first two days in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but lost to the host Razorbacks on Sunday to conclude the Wooo Pig Classic. KU will now take a 14-6 record into a midweek road date at Wichita State on Wednesday night ahead of its home opener on Friday. The Jayhawks commenced their weekend tournament on Friday morning ...
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Kansas men’s basketball team didn’t have Darryn Peterson when it beat Arizona in Lawrence, and on Saturday Peterson supplied 24 points to the cause as the Jayhawks battled the Wildcats again at the McKale Center. The problem this time for KU was how the rest of the game went. Melvin Council Jr. supplied an efficient 13, and Tre White got to the same total on 10 shots, with most of his ...
TUCSON, Ariz. — Some teams could draw two early fouls on Kansas forward Bryson Tiller and not do all that much to improve their chances of winning. Tiller is a strong and steadily improving player, of course, and the Jayhawks are better with his scoring spark. But for Arizona — one of the most physical teams in the country, with a front line of bruising forwards Ivan Kharchenkov (6-foot-7, 230 pounds) and ...
After Kansas beat Houston on Monday to bring itself into what eventually became a four-way tie for second place in the league standings, KU guard Melvin Council Jr. said the Jayhawks were focused on securing a double bye in the Big 12 tournament — that is, finishing as one of the league’s top four teams so they can begin playing on the third day of the event, March 12. They are not fully out of contention ...
Jamari McDowell has by any metric exceeded expectations this season. The offseason acquisitions of players like reclassifying freshman wing Kohl Rosario and Loyola-Chicago transfer guard Jayden Dawson seemed poised to push McDowell far down the rotation, especially because both those players came to Lawrence with reputations as reliable 3-point shooters. Instead, McDowell’s development during his redshirt ...
The increased numerical size and broader geographical footprint of the new-look Big 12 has generated a number of situations in which teams have been scheduled to play back-to-back opponents in the same distant state or region of the country, and so chosen to stick around for a couple days in between games. The first such opportunity didn’t go so well for Kansas last year when it took on Utah in Salt Lake City ...