WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Kansas announces men's basketball conference schedule

A new-look Kansas men's basketball team expected — as usual — to rank among the best in the country will have the chance to prove its Big 12 Conference bona fides beginning in January. Its league schedule for the upcoming year was announced Tuesday morning. The Jayhawks' campaign through the newly expanded 14-team conference — which added BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF and doesn't lose Oklahoma and ...

Tough loss to UCF concludes KU soccer's road trip

The Kansas soccer team played what head coach Mark Francis called "hands down our best game of the year on both sides of the ball," but fell short in a 1-0 loss at UCF on Sunday night when the Knights' Katie Bradley converted a penalty kick in the 84th minute. "The game is cruel sometimes," Francis said in a press release. UCF forward Chloe Netzel drew contact from KU defender Moira Kelley in the box, and ...

KU men's basketball earns second commitment for 2024: four-star guard Philon

The Kansas men's basketball team began to round out its 2024 recruiting class when it earned the commitment of Labaron Philon, a four-star point guard from Mobile, Alabama, who plays at Link Academy in Branson, Missouri. Philon, who visited KU over the weekend, had previously been committed to Auburn in his home state until April, and eventually chose the Jayhawks over finalists Alabama, Cincinnati and Ole ...

Kansas enters AP Top 25 for second straight year

After opening the season 4-0, and most recently beating BYU 38-27 Saturday, the Kansas football team has been rewarded Sunday with the No. 24 spot in the Associated Press' Top 25 rankings. This is the second year in a row that KU has been ranked after a hiatus of nearly 13 years between appearances. The Jayhawks earned their previous ranking in 2022 just before hosting ESPN's "College GameDay" ahead of a game ...

KU volleyball splits two matches at Texas Tech

The Kansas volleyball team bounced back from a fifth-set heartbreak Friday, flipping the script Saturday to earn a win over Texas Tech and boost its record to 10-2 on the season (1-1 Big 12 Conference). The Jayhawks will be back at home next Friday for their first-ever home conference matchups against Houston. Match 1 The Jayhawks saw a seven-match winning streak come to an end in dramatic fashion, as Reagan ...

Notebook: New conference foes KU and BYU share key historical memory

The way the trajectory of Kansas football history has gone, Jayhawk fans will have the memory of any bowl win (or appearance, even) firmly lodged in their brains. BYU’s visit this week may have dredged up the memory of a particularly prominent game, the 1992 Aloha Bowl that saw KU beat the Cougars for its first postseason win in 31 years. That matchup was the only meeting between the two schools prior to ...