In the two decades before he came to Kansas, D.K. McDonald learned from a slew of accomplished defensive coaches. He began his coaching career at the Division II level and worked under Lou Tepper, who had been a coordinator at Colorado and Illinois; in his days on Matt Campbell’s staffs at Toledo and Iowa State, he worked for well-regarded Jon Heacock; when he started with the Philadelphia Eagles their DC was ...
Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer isn’t new to replacing accomplished veterans. Seven experienced players, including six starters, turned pro following his 2023 season at Oregon, in which the Ducks had gone on an Elite Eight run. “It was just like total turnover on the roster, as far as what you saw on the court, but we had a lot of really good young talent that just hadn’t had their chance yet,” ...
Provo, Utah — Kansas’ two-game road swing through Utah began with optimism, as head coach Bill Self believed the trip could bring the Jayhawks together like a November multi-team event — something this year’s team didn’t get — usually does. It ended with the Jayhawks two losses worse, with another unsuccessful starting lineup in the rearview mirror, poised to drop out of the AP Top 25 for the first ...
Provo, Utah — Ahead of Tuesday night’s matchup with BYU, the Kansas men’s basketball team found itself in an unfamiliar position: the No. 5 seed line. ESPN’s bracketology expert Joe Lunardi dropped the Jayhawks to No. 19 overall, in the aftermath of their 74-67 loss at unranked Utah on Saturday. He placed them in the Seattle site, facing McNeese with No. 4 Michigan State and No. 13 Lipscomb in the other ...
Provo, Utah — In a conference schedule that had already featured plenty of deep, deep lows, the Kansas men’s basketball team may have hit rock bottom on Tuesday night. The Jayhawks gave up 10 first-half 3s, trailed by 20 points at the break and did nothing to make the game competitive from then on. They suffered one of the worst losses by margin in school history, a 91-57 drubbing by BYU at the Marriott ...
A series loss to Illinois-Chicago to open the 2024 season meant that the Kansas baseball team already had a black mark on its schedule in mid-February. The Jayhawks don’t have to worry about that this year. KU pulled off a four-game road sweep of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in its first action of 2025, escaping with an extra-innings victory in the opener Friday and then breezing past the Islanders in three ...