The only remaining unbeaten team in the Big 12, BYU moved into the top spot in this week's power rankings. The Cougars received 14 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media who cover the Big 12. Cincinnati, tied for the league lead at 4-0, was second with one first-place vote. Texas Tech, the unanimous No. 1 the previous two weeks, dropped to third after a loss to Arizona State. The Red Raiders ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self is fond of saying that freshman guard Darryn Peterson is able to see the game in slow motion. It’s an attribute Self usually associates with veteran players, but one that Peterson has cultivated at a young age. “To be 18 and be able to slow the game down like that and be so cerebral and take everything in without being fazed, we try to just push him in practice to ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self still has a lot left to learn about his 2025-26 team, but he has a starting lineup in mind for Friday’s road exhibition game at Louisville. The Jayhawks’ first five at the KFC Yum! Center — ”as of today,” Self said on Wednesday at Big 12 media days at the T-Mobile Center — “even though that could change” — will consist of guards Darryn Peterson and ...
As good as Kansas was at the plate last season — and the Jayhawks both got on base and hit for power as well as anyone in their conference — they were noticeably lacking in a particular area on offense, one that head coach Dan Fitzgerald mentioned during the year and he said continued to bother him all through the summer. “We won at a really high level last year,” he told the Journal-World. “But in ...
Amid all of the roster turnover that the Kansas baseball team endured this offseason, KU always had a foundational piece in the fold in pitcher Dominic Voegele. The question, entering his third collegiate season, is whether the Jayhawks’ ace can retain the form that earned him Big 12 freshman of the year honors in 2024. In his first year out of Columbia, Illinois, Voegele dazzled with a 3.89 ERA and 80 ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas women’s basketball team returns nearly every significant contributor from last year’s roster, so the Jayhawks have a lot of continuity entering the 2025-26 campaign. And even the Jayhawks’ five newcomers — four highly touted freshmen and one transfer, Lilly Meister — have certainly become quite familiar with the program, and with their teammates, by this late stage of ...