After 10 days of swirling rumors, Kansas and Wichita State have officially agreed to play a nonconference basketball game that has been in the making for much, much longer. The two in-state schools will face off in the regular season for the first time in 31 years when they battle at the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City on Saturday, Dec. 30. Early reports of the pending game had placed the date a day ...
As Kansas coach Bill Self will tell you — and indeed, as he told reporters Wednesday — a scrimmage “isn’t real ball, so it’s not worth really evaluating or spending much time on it.” That may be, but for a few minutes at the end of Wednesday afternoon's Bill Self Basketball Camps exhibition at Allen Fieldhouse, the KU veterans nevertheless ratcheted up the intensity. Trailing 59-50 in a game set to ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold said Tuesday that he had a former coworker come through town recently and wasn't able to make time for them to stop by. "Stuff ran over and it didn’t work out," he said, "and I said, ‘Yeah, June’s not what it used to be.’” What used to be a light month separating spring football and fall camp has turned into another epicenter of the college football calendar, ...
Kansas football has added another piece to its backfield of the future. Harry Stewart III, a running back from Centennial High in Frisco, Texas, committed to KU Tuesday afternoon following his official visit over the weekend. The consensus three-star prospect, who also had offers from schools like Baylor, BYU, Cal, Michigan, Missouri and Texas A&M, now becomes the fourth player to commit after a dozen ...
More than four years ago, Kansas women’s basketball found itself mired in a string of losing seasons, and head coach Brandon Schneider offered a scholarship to a promising player from Overland Park who wasn’t even in high school yet. Now, the Jayhawks have reached the NCAA Tournament and then won the WNIT in back-to-back seasons, and that young woman — who soon became one of the top players nationwide in ...
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 ...