After watching BYU deploy trick plays to great effect in its impressive victory over Notre Dame on Oct. 17, Kansas coach Lance Leipold went back to work the following day with a message to his coaches: “You know, let’s not be afraid to dial a few up.” Associate head coach Andy Kotelnicki certainly doesn’t lack creativity, but there have been times this season that his offense has looked at least a bit ...
That KU had a winning streak of 58 consecutive home exhibition games prior to Wednesday’s loss to No. 11 Louisville attests to the power of Allen Fieldhouse, but also to the way preseason schedules are changing. That streak consisted primarily of victories against Division II schools from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, with teams like the EA Sports All-Stars, Australia’s Geelong ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold believes his team can still field an explosive offense and an improved defense, even though it hasn’t produced consistent results on either side of the ball in recent weeks. As the Jayhawks look to get their season turned back in the right direction after last weekend’s 35-24 defeat at Kansas State, they will face another team coming off a grim rivalry loss: the Baylor ...
Kansas managed to hold Flory Bidunga, the former Jayhawk and top-ranked transfer-portal acquisition, to five points and three rebounds on Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. But KU turned out to have much bigger problems in its first exhibition against a power-conference opponent. No. 11 Louisville hit eight of its first 11 3-pointers in the early stages of the second half, jumped ahead by a dozen points ...
Newly eligible via an injunction in the state of Indiana, Kansas forward Tre White says he’s coming back to the Jayhawks with a chip on his shoulder. He wants to win, to demonstrate his own improvement, to lead the team — he has “a chip to win a chip,” as he put it. “Being grateful, being that leader now, being in a different position, learning all the things that I learned this summer, you know, I ...
You wouldn’t know at first from listening to the Kansas players in Wednesday night’s press conference, with Melvin Council Jr. taking responsibility for insufficient defense and Tre White speaking about learning from the “pain,” that the game they had just lost didn’t count. KU coach Bill Self, for his part, didn’t hesitate much when he took questions postgame before saying, “I don’t want to ...