Kansas coach Lance Leipold is very open about his tendency to focus on the negatives. For example, in the aftermath of his team's upset victory over No. 6 Oklahoma, when he learned cornerback Kwinton Lassiter hadn't been credited with an interception on his out-of-bounds snag of Dillon Gabriel's Hail Mary, Leipold said, "Thank goodness." As he watched the play, he explained, "I’m thinking, why aren’t we ...
The Kansas volleyball team picked up right where it left off Thursday with a second straight 3-0 victory, this time 25-18, 25-22, 25-17, over West Virginia. The Jayhawks hit .337 as a team, including .414 to help separate themselves in what began as a tight first set. Outside hitters Reagan Cooper and Ayah Elnady led KU in kills once again with 13 and 12, respectively, and opposite London Davis added 10 more on ...
Kansas defensive coordinator Brian Borland estimates that when the Oklahoma offense gets in gear, the Jayhawks will have about 10 seconds from the end of one play to the start of another. “I can’t be up there, thumb through my notes about making the perfect call,” Borland said. “You got to make a good call right now, (which) is better than the perfect call five minutes from now.” KU will have a ...
"Big Noon Kickoff" host Rob Stone, the veteran, multi-sport Fox broadcaster, has no qualms about labeling his pregame show and the marquee broadcast that follows "a five-hour national commercial, essentially free of charge." The beneficiaries of that promotion this weekend will be the University of Kansas and its football program, a "burgeoning power" as Stone says, receiving its first-ever visit from "Big ...
Kansas men's basketball freshman Johnny Furphy met with reporters for the first time at the team's media day Wednesday, but fans may have to wait a little longer to see him in extended action. The same day that Furphy earned a nod to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's 2024 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Watch List — before ever having played college basketball — his head coach Bill ...
The top four spots in the Big 12 Conference power rankings were unchanged after Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State all won over the weekend. Oklahoma, the unanimous No. 1 in voting by 14 beat writers that regularly cover the Big 12, escaped upset-minded UCF. Texas got a favorable spot at its own 10-yard line in the final minute to narrowly beat Houston, while Oklahoma State staged a ...