WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU women will battle Baylor, Kansas State in days ahead as they angle for postseason positioning

The Kansas women's basketball team resuscitated its season with a landmark victory over Baylor last month. To continue its upward trajectory and build toward a potential NCAA Tournament berth, it will need to take down the Bears once again. After dropping several hard-fought nonconference games on the road, the Jayhawks — who had faced sky-high preseason expectations after adding freshman S'Mya Nichols to ...

Leipold set to hire Daryl Agpalsa as O-line coach, per report

After bringing in new faces at offensive coordinator (Jeff Grimes) and co-defensive coordinator (D.K. McDonald), Kansas coach Lance Leipold looks poised to pick a past colleague to lead his offensive line. ESPN reported Tuesday afternoon that Daryl Agpalsa, the run game coordinator and offensive line coach at Northern Illinois, is set to join the KU staff as Leipold's new O-line coach. In this role he would ...

New Mass St. Collective executive director Stowers talks current NIL challenges, targeting 'the common fan'

Keon Stowers may have been a student-athlete for the Kansas football team in the early 2010s, long before the rise of name, image and likeness money in college athletics, but he saw the seeds being planted even then. He remembered that people would discuss the O’Bannon vs. NCAA case — a lawsuit that contested the NCAA’s use of college athletes’ likenesses without compensation — and the Northwestern ...

KU baseball loses series at UIC but picks up season's first win

Despite scoring 23 total runs across its first three games of the season, the Kansas baseball team lost its first series of the year, 2-1 to Illinois-Chicago in Corpus Christi, Texas. On a challenging weekend for the Jayhawks' pitching staff, Central Arizona College transfer Patrick Steitz, a junior from Peoria, Arizona, had by far the most success on the mound as he pitched six scoreless innings with four hits ...

Two wins, two losses, two cancellations for KU softball at Spring Games

An up-and-down start for the Kansas softball team continued at The Spring Games tournament in Leesburg, Florida, as the Jayhawks won two games and lost two more — all decided by three runs or fewer — then had both of Saturday's games canceled due to inclement weather. With matchups against Big Ten Conference foes Iowa and Ohio State wiped off the schedule, KU (4-5-1) will proceed to the Texas A&M ...

Notebook: KU projected as No. 2 seed in tournament field preview

Norman, Okla. — With a month to go before it learns its tournament positioning, the Kansas men’s basketball team was projected as a No. 2 seed in the West Region in the NCAA March Madness Selection Preview Saturday morning. If the tournament started today, in other words, that would put KU in Los Angeles for potential Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games, if it were able to get past the first two rounds of the ...