The Kansas baseball team has reached essentially unprecedented heights during its 2026 season by somehow synthesizing its first regular-season conference title in 77 years, conference tournament title in 20 years and regional title in 33 years into a single dominant campaign. It’s not over yet, either, with the Jayhawks now two wins from a College World Series berth as they host Oklahoma for a best-of-three ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The absence of Cade Baldridge from Kansas’ lineup for the first time all season — in a season that has now stretched to 61 games — was far from a certainty until mere minutes before first pitch against Arkansas on Sunday night, as Baldridge was dealing with an injury. That meant that both Dariel Osoria and Max Soliz Jr. had limited time to prepare for new roles. For Osoria, it meant playing second base, ...