Saturday’s matchup between Kansas and Kansas State featured the latest expression of gratitude for a senior class that Lance Leipold has credited with helping turn the program around. The group was honored pregame as part of Senior Day festivities before the Jayhawks played their last home game of the season. It included longtime stalwarts like Mason Fairchild and Kenny Logan Jr.; Buffalo transfers like Rich ...
Kansas had a chance to extend its lead to three possessions early in the third quarter Saturday night. With Kansas State deep in its own territory, Rich Miller broke on a short pass from the Wildcats’ quarterback Will Howard looking for Phillip Brooks. Howard never saw Miller coming; all the middle linebacker needed to do was snag the ball and trot into the end zone to put KU up 33-16. Miller dropped the ...
As has often been the case this season, another week has brought another mystery about just who might be playing quarterback for Kansas this weekend. Head coach Lance Leipold suggested on Monday that he was “very optimistic” about Jason Bean returning from a head injury to lead the Jayhawks Saturday, even after Bean missed the week’s first practice; however, Leipold then said on 810 WHB’s “The Border ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team took a small but significant step toward proving itself worthy of its preseason No. 1 ranking when it held off No. 17 Kentucky at the Champions Classic Tuesday night. What it faces in the coming days will be even more challenging. The Jayhawks will return to the Maui Invitational for the eighth time, looking to follow up their 2015 and 2019 appearances with a third straight ...
When the Maui Invitational announced its field for its 2023 edition — way back on April 5, 2022, the day after Kansas won the national championship — tournament head Dave Odom said that the group “may be the best one, at least on paper, that we've ever had.” A year and a half can render teams unrecognizable in college basketball, especially given the frequency and abruptness of player and coach movement ...
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels, who has been out for most of the season due to a back injury, quieted speculation about his future Thursday afternoon when he posted a social media video affirming that he intends to stay at KU following this year. "So you want something to talk about? Talk about this: I'm not done yet and I'm not going anywhere," Daniels said in the video. "Rock Chalk." In an accompanying ...