On the strength of a 39-32 upset of No. 23 Kansas, Oklahoma State made the biggest move in this week’s Big 12 Conference power rankings. The Cowboys climbed six spots to fourth place in voting by a panel of 14 beat writers who regularly cover the league. Meanwhile, KU had the biggest drop of the week, going from third to eighth. Idle Oklahoma remained the unanimous No. 1 for the second consecutive week, ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self was feeling a mixture of relief and pain Wednesday at the Big 12 Conference's annual media day. Relief because one week earlier, the Independent Accountability Resolution Process had rendered its long-awaited ruling on NCAA violations by his program and delivered a principal penalty — 15 vacated wins from the 2017-18 season — that he said he ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Big 12 Conference Commissioner Brett Yormark preemptively declined comment on his league's hottest topic, expansion — other than to say that nothing else was imminent in that domain — but he still found a way deliver some intra-conference news at the podium Tuesday. Opening the Big 12's annual women's basketball media day, Yormark said that the conference is working on a contract ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider still remembers a vivid impression he got when his team played Stanford in the 2022 NCAA Tournament. “One through five, I thought we were really, really competitive,” Schneider told reporters at Big 12 Conference media day Tuesday. “It’s when we went to six, seven, eight, they went to their six, seven and eight, where there was a ...
Kansas coach Mark Francis called Sunday's match against West Virginia "like so many of the other games in the conference that we have played" in a postgame press release. Indeed, the Jayhawks went back and forth with the Mountaineers in a fairly even run of play, much as they have in the majority of their seven one-goal losses on the year. But a scoreless first period gave way to a familiar second-half ...
Kansas tight end Mason Fairchild broke free for two wide-open touchdowns in two minutes Saturday at Oklahoma State, after being held without a score for the first six games of the season. Chances are, though, that’s not what he’ll remember when he looks back on his trip to Stillwater. “We have a tendency to look at the things we did wrong,” he said postgame. “I’m my biggest critic. I’m not really ...