Kansas coach Bill Self made it painfully clear Wednesday night how he felt about his team's preparedness for regular-season action, with three days of practice remaining before it tips off Monday versus North Carolina Central. "No, we’re not ready," Self said. "No, no, no, we’re not ready." The central areas of concern for Self coming out of Wednesday night's 73-55 exhibition victory over Fort Hays State ...
The Kansas football team is still trying to make the most of its 2023 campaign, but has just received a window into what its 2024 and beyond will look like. The Big 12 Conference, which will grow to 16 teams in 2024 with the additions of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah and departures of Oklahoma and Texas, unveiled Wednesday afternoon its "scheduling matrix" for the next four football seasons. ...
Texas has returned to the No. 1 spot in the Big 12 Conference power rankings. With Oklahoma’s upset loss to Kansas, the Longhorns – 29-point winners over BYU – moved back into the top spot in this week’s rankings. Texas picked up nine first-place votes in balloting of 14 beat writers that regularly cover the league, while the Sooners received four votes. Kansas State received the other first-place ...
Eight completed passes, 3.6 yards per carry, 10 first downs, 213 yards of total offense. The 2022 game against Iowa State at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium went down as a win for Kansas in the record books, but has remained one of the Jayhawks’ poorest offensive performances of the last two seasons. The Cyclones’ 3-3-5 defense essentially means that they start out with an extra safety dropped back for ...
This story will be updated. The Kansas Jayhawks got ready for the regular season with their last of a whopping five exhibition games, polishing off Division II Fort Hays State 73-55 at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night. Center Hunter Dickinson rode a strong first half to a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Kevin McCullar Jr. was his team’s leading scorer for the second exhibition in a row ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold said Monday that he admired how his Iowa State counterpart Matt Campbell steered his squad through distractions back in the summer — when the Cyclones saw an ever-growing number of their student-athletes disciplined in an ongoing sports gambling investigation — and still put the team on track for a good season (5-3, 4-1 Big 12 Conference so far). “A sign of an excellent head ...