Despite scoring 23 total runs across its first three games of the season, the Kansas baseball team lost its first series of the year, 2-1 to Illinois-Chicago in Corpus Christi, Texas. On a challenging weekend for the Jayhawks' pitching staff, Central Arizona College transfer Patrick Steitz, a junior from Peoria, Arizona, had by far the most success on the mound as he pitched six scoreless innings with four hits ...
An up-and-down start for the Kansas softball team continued at The Spring Games tournament in Leesburg, Florida, as the Jayhawks won two games and lost two more — all decided by three runs or fewer — then had both of Saturday's games canceled due to inclement weather. With matchups against Big Ten Conference foes Iowa and Ohio State wiped off the schedule, KU (4-5-1) will proceed to the Texas A&M ...
Norman, Okla. — What already feels like an eternity ago, on Jan. 10 in Orlando, the game that kicked off a month's worth of road struggles from Kansas was decided by one pivotal stretch late in the first half. The Jayhawks led a struggling UCF — which was playing its first-ever home game in the Big 12 Conference — 35-19 before allowing the Knights’ offense to mount a 10-2 run entering halftime. UCF ...
Norman, Okla. — With a month to go before it learns its tournament positioning, the Kansas men’s basketball team was projected as a No. 2 seed in the West Region in the NCAA March Madness Selection Preview Saturday morning. If the tournament started today, in other words, that would put KU in Los Angeles for potential Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games, if it were able to get past the first two rounds of the ...
Norman, Okla. — In his first game back from injury, Kevin McCullar Jr. was having an inefficient shooting day, of the sort that became all too familiar for him during the month of January. He was 3-for-13 midway through the second half. Then he hit the biggest shot of the day. “I thought he was definitely out of sorts. Out of rhythm," KU coach Bill Self said. "But he played within himself, and we don’t ...
The Kansas football team is set to lose another key assistant. John Brice of FootballScoop, a coaching news site, reported Friday afternoon that KU’s offensive line coach Scott Fuchs is going to take an offensive assistant role with the Tennessee Titans under their new head coach Brian Callahan. Fuchs has excelled in building sturdy, versatile offensive lines since arriving as part of Lance Leipold’s ...