The Kansas football team emerged from a busy weekend of official visits with its sixth, seventh and eighth commitments for the class of 2024. Linebacker Jacorey Stewart, from Milton High in Georgia, and offensive lineman Harrison Utley, of Norman North High in Oklahoma both announced their decisions Sunday night after committing during their visits to Lawrence. Cornerback Austin Alexander, an incoming senior at ...
After a breakthrough 2022-23 campaign that earned him plaudits and an award nod as the Big 12 Conference's most improved player, Kansas junior KJ Adams Jr. is looking to take another step forward next season. The 6-foot-7 Adams played primarily as an undersized center last year, averaging more than 10 points and four rebounds in the process, and so did most of his work near the rim. But with the arrival of ...
If you view a college athletic conference primarily as a bundle of brand equity and disparate assets to be auctioned off to the highest media-rights bidder, you probably love the direction the current conference-realignment cycle seems to be headed. If you place a certain emphasis on regional cohesiveness and historic rivalries, as I do, you may find yourself a little bit perturbed by the suggestion — ...
Already no stranger to playing in far-flung locales, the Kansas men's and women's basketball teams will participate in an international doubleheader much closer to home next year. The Big 12 Conference and Kansas Athletics announced Thursday morning that both KU teams will play against Houston at Arena CDMX in Mexico City in December 2024 part of an initiative known as Big 12 Mexico, which Commissioner Brett ...
In what Kansas Athletics is touting as the school's first weeknight ESPN football game in 28 years, KU will face Illinois at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8 on ESPN2, the school announced Thursday. “We look forward to showcasing a program on an unrivaled trajectory to a national audience against a high-quality opponent," KU athletic director Travis Goff said in a news release. "This is a testament to a new era ...
The two most exhilarating moments of Thursday night’s Rock Chalk Roundball Classic at Free State High School came immediately before and after the final whistle. First, four of the six beneficiaries of the charity basketball game — the 15th annual installment of the event, founded by Kansas broadcaster Brian Hanni, which raises money for children with cancer — were able to run gleefully through a tunnel ...