When Andy Kotelnicki first got offered and accepted a job working for Lance Leipold back in 2013, he took less than 48 hours to make his way to Bismarck, North Dakota, where he had been working at the University of Mary, and then back to Whitewater, Wisconsin, to get started as Leipold’s offensive coordinator. “And that’s the type of guy that he is,” Leipold said. Leipold found himself reminiscing on ...
LUBBOCK, Texas — Kansas guard Darryn Peterson will be the first to tell you that he had a bad game on Monday night at Texas Tech. Or at least he did for the first 38 1/2 minutes at United Supermarkets Arena. “Shots weren’t really going in,” he said. “They guarded me kind of well. I just trusted the work.” The work shone through in the end, and it was scintillating. The freshman from Canton, Ohio, ...
LUBBOCK, Texas — Kansas guard Darryn Peterson was 3-for-12 from the field and had been largely invisible in the latter stages of the game when he hit back-to-back 3-pointers to put KU ahead with 44 seconds remaining. The Jayhawks’ star took the air out of United Supermarkets Arena, Tyeree Bryan and Donovan Atwell missed potential game-tying attempts and KU claimed a stunning 64-61 victory over the ...
The Kansas men’s and women’s basketball teams each had one signee named to the rosters for the McDonald’s All-American Game on Monday afternoon. The event, which features the best high school basketball players in the nation, will take place on March 31 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Future KU guard Taylen Kinney, of Newport, Kentucky, was named to the East team for the men’s game, ...
Mark Turgeon has been hired as the head coach at Kansas City, the school announced on Sunday morning. The move brings the former Kansas player and assistant coach, a Topeka native, back close to his home state as the leader of the Roos. It will be Turgeon's first job in coaching since he stepped down at Maryland early in the 2021-22 season. Kansas City is able to make this unusual midseason coaching hire ...
Kansas needed every ounce of energy it could possibly muster to take down No. 13 BYU 90-82 on Saturday afternoon. The problem was that it had already expended a great deal of its energy reserves in the first half before a rocking Allen Fieldhouse crowd — as good an atmosphere as head coach Bill Self could remember in the building, he said — on its way to a big halftime lead. So it was perhaps a predictable ...