The Kansas men’s basketball team got its season back on the right track during a well-timed homestand with a pair of dominant wins, 84-63 against then-No. 2 Iowa State and 80-62 over Baylor. Now, back above .500 in what are still the early stages of Big 12 play, the newly 19th-ranked Jayhawks will look to extend their momentum beyond the confines of Allen Fieldhouse. “We haven’t taken our act on the ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday and did not travel with the Jayhawks to their upcoming road game in Colorado, KU Athletics announced in a statement. The statement said Self “felt under the weather earlier today and, out of an abundance of caution, was taken to LMH Health where he received IV fluids." Self was previously hospitalized on March 8, ...
A new option has emerged in the competition to become Kansas’ day-one starter at quarterback for the 2026 season. Rice transfer Chase Jenkins committed to KU, he confirmed to the Journal-World on Sunday. Jenkins will be a redshirt junior with two years left to play. He fills the scholarship spot vacated by the departure of freshman David McComb, who transferred to Miami (Ohio). Jenkins now enters a room ...
Kansas waited until the tail end of the transfer-portal cycle to make one of its most attention-grabbing moves of the offseason. In a rare — albeit increasingly common in an era of greater player movement — transfer between rivals, former Kansas State running back Dylan Edwards announced in an Instagram post on Sunday morning that he is joining the Jayhawks. Edwards, a Derby native, began his career at ...
With 28 players joining through the transfer portal, 18 incoming freshmen (one newly added from Australia) and 40 returning players from last season’s roster, the Kansas football team appears to be up to 86 scholarships. That is, of course, an educated guess, as the team doesn’t publicize its exact numbers of scholarship players and walk-ons. There is no longer a hard cap at 85, with the abolition of ...
Prior to coming to Kansas, Darryn Peterson had asserted that Flory Bidunga was the player with whom he was most looking forward to playing. He made that comment in an interview after a Grind Session game at Haskell Indian Nations University in March, and he reminisced about it on Friday night, 10 months later, after he and Bidunga combined for an impressive 49 points on 22-for-27 shooting in a win over ...