Kansas basketball is back — albeit basketball accompanied by a routine pairing the players with KU dancers and closely followed by a Flo Rida concert, but still Kansas basketball. Yes, KU held its annual Late Night in the Phog celebration Friday evening at Allen Fieldhouse. And while the formula may have been familiar to many of the attendees, it was new to six scholarship players and three walk-ons on the ...
The 17th-ranked Kansas volleyball team saw its momentum in Big 12 Conference play halted this week after a pair of road losses to No. 8 Texas. The Longhorns beat the Jayhawks 3-1 Thursday, and there would be no second-day resurgence for KU this week, as it fell in a sweep to Texas Friday night. The Jayhawks will host Oklahoma for a single match on the afternoon of Oct. 14. Match 1 A second-set surge that saw ...
Kansas super-senior Kevin McCullar Jr. told reporters this week that the players have been hard at work learning a dance routine for Friday's Late Night in the Phog. Just don't expect their Hall of Fame coach to join in. "That would be negative," Bill Self said with a smile Monday. "That would be no, and you can take that, and I won't have any more comment on that either." Don't mistake Self's lack of dance ...
Just two years ago, the Kansas women's basketball team was picked to finish last in the Big 12 Conference in the league's preseason poll. After qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in 2022 and then winning the Women's National Invitation Tournament in 2023, head coach Brandon Schneider's squad is facing significantly higher expectations. In a preseason poll of conference coaches released Thursday, KU slotted in ...
The Big 12 Conference coaches expect the Kansas women's basketball team to pick up right where it left off. Seven months after center Taiyanna Jackson and guard Zakiyah Franklin earned first-team All-Big 12 honors and Holly Kersgieter picked up an honorable mention, those three players were honored again in the league's 2023 preseason poll of Big 12 coaches. All three players are super-seniors who have chosen ...
The Kansas defense and its coordinator Brian Borland were acutely aware last week that the Jayhawks had given up 427 rushing yards to Texas in 2022. When it came time to take on the Longhorns again, though, that awareness only meant so much. “We were 100 yards better than we were a year ago against Texas," Borland said Wednesday, "but that’s not saying much." This time around, KU gave up 336 yards on an ...