Another member of the Kansas men’s basketball freshman class is leaving the program. Marcus Adams Jr., a 6-foot-8 wing from Torrance, California, who had reclassified from the class of 2024 in order to join the Jayhawks this season, announced on social media Sunday that he plans to request a release from his letter of intent and leave the program. “It was a hard decision,” Adams wrote. “I decided it ...
The expected three-Jayhawk NBA Summer League matchup was not to be Thursday night, as Gradey Dick and David McCormack both sat out for Toronto, but Jalen Wilson softened the blow to Kansas fans a little. Wilson scooped up an offensive rebound on an errant layup attempt by Kennedy Chandler, tossed it high off the backboard and fist-pumped as it sank in for the overtime game-winner as his Brooklyn Nets defeated ...
Arlington, Texas — The Kansas State High School Activities Association Twitter account is, generally, a beacon of positivity. The association is quite liberal in its use of exclamation points, exhorting its followers to "Become a high school official!" or urging "Don't miss out!" on a coaching clinic or wishing "Good luck!" as its member schools engage in high-level competition. So what prompted KSHSAA to ...
Missouri will have to wait a little longer to certify its next lawyer. Kansas right-handed pitcher Collin Baumgartner has been signed as an undrafted free agent by the Colorado Rockies after one season in Lawrence, KU announced in a press release Wednesday. Baumgartner, who already has an MBA, had been slated to attend Saint Louis University for law school in the fall — the native of Brighton, Illinois, ...
Arlington, Texas — By any metric, Kansas football has retained one of the most similar rosters to its 2022 iteration of any Division I team in the country. The most concise way to express this fact is via the Jayhawks’ first-place position in the returning production rankings from ESPN’s Bill Connelly; according to his post-spring assessment, KU returns effectively 91% of its offense and 79% of its defense ...
Arlington, Texas — Two years ago, the Kansas football team didn't even make it to the Big 12 Conference Media Days. Severe weather coming out of Lawrence grounded head coach Lance Leipold in his first year at the helm, and he and the Jayhawk players had to videoconference from afar. In 2022, after a 2-10 season, the new-era Jayhawks made the rounds at their media-day debut at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, ...