The Kansas women’s basketball team finished 11th in the Big 12 and missed the NCAA Tournament despite featuring two of the best players in the league and perhaps the nation. Forward Jaliya Davis became the first power-conference player ever to win her league’s freshman of the week honor nine times in a row and in turn was quite unsurprisingly named freshman of the year before finishing the season averaging ...
The process of projecting a starting lineup for the Kansas men’s basketball team usually brings with it plenty of intrigue and uncertainty, with numerous combinations and endless debates in the lead-up to the fall. But the way KU has constructed its roster this season, along with recent comments by head coach Bill Self and associate head coach Jeremy Case in the days and weeks since the Jayhawks arrived on ...
Olivia Bruno needed a second opinion. When the former two-way standout for Kansas softball got a message in February from an Italian club team asking if she wanted to play for them, she had to consult Morgan Zerkle, her boss at Marshall. “I showed her the DM and I was like, ‘Is this fake?’” recalled Bruno, who works as a graduate assistant for the Thundering Herd. “I couldn’t really believe it at ...
The Kansas softball team reached new heights, at least for Jennifer McFalls’ eight-year tenure as head coach, by earning a postseason bid in 2026. Now the work of replicating that performance continues, and the Jayhawks will have to go forward without an influential class of seniors that included a host of longtime starters, such as second baseman Campbell Bagshaw, shortstop Hailey Cripe (Big 12 co-defensive ...
In his previous stops as a baseball coach, Dan Fitzgerald worked with some talented players who went on to great success. Fitzgerald recruited Scott Schebler, from Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Des Moines Area Community College in what he described to The Athletic as his biggest recruiting find; Schebler went on to a seven-year major-league career, primarily with the Cincinnati Reds. Later, as ...
Former Kansas forward KJ Adams will soon make his return to the basketball court after a yearlong absence from competitive play. Adams, who suffered a torn Achilles in his final collegiate game on March 20, 2025, is getting a shot in the NBA Summer League. He will play for the Golden State Warriors in the annual preseason exhibition event. The Warriors' schedule begins in the California Classic with a game ...