Landyn Watson, a transfer linebacker from Kentucky who committed to Kansas back in January and was with the Jayhawks this spring, is no longer on KU’s roster and will not be eligible to play this upcoming season. Watson would have been a sixth-year senior, but he told the Journal-World in a text message that he had been appealing for the sixth year of eligibility based on tearing his meniscus as a freshman at ...
The Kansas football team continues to strengthen its future in the trenches. Richie Dexter, a 6-foot-7, 303-pound offensive tackle from Chandler, Arizona, announced his commitment to KU on Tuesday night in a post on social media. “I chose to commit to Kansas because of the great fans they have and the amazing coaching staff that I will have behind me,” Dexter told Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com. Dexter ...
TOPEKA — By virtue of his No. 1 ranking in the 2026 recruiting class — not to mention the protracted and suspenseful recruitment that accompanied it, or the immense talent that justified it in the first place — forward Tyran Stokes is sure to be the focal point of most discussions surrounding the 2026-27 Kansas men’s basketball team. But head coach Bill Self didn’t hesitate on Monday at the Otto ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team on Tuesday morning announced its full nonconference schedule for the 2026-27 season. KU’s slate is headlined by previously announced matchups against the likes of Kentucky and Ohio State and on the road at UConn, as well as a set of three games at the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas in mid-November. The Jayhawks open the year at Allen Fieldhouse with games against ...
Kansas head coach Dan Fitzgerald found himself transported to another time and place in the early innings of Sunday’s regional final against Arkansas. Another regional final, specifically, when he was an assistant at Dallas Baptist at the Fort Worth Regional in 2021 and the Patriots fell behind 5-0 against Oregon State in a winner-take-all Game 7. “I had one of those flashback moments of like, ‘I’ve ...
Updated 2:44 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2026: In an improbable turn of events, there will in fact be a Lawrence Super Regional. Oklahoma’s Dayton Tockey hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to stun Georgia Tech 8-7 in Game 7 of the Atlanta Regional on Monday, eliminating the No. 2 national seed and sending the Sooners to a matchup with their former conference rival. The NCAA announced details of the super ...