Fifth-year senior guard Melvin Council Jr. took the lead for Kansas’ offense on Tuesday night in the absence of star guard Darryn Peterson, and finished with 16 points, six assists and plenty of praise from coach Bill Self. The 23rd-year head coach essentially said postgame that he felt Council was the only player bringing significant energy to the Jayhawks’ performance in their 71-35 exhibition victory ...
The Kansas football team has lost the defensive back who would have been its highest-rated player in the 2026 recruiting class. JJ Dunnigan, who originally committed to KU in January and then affirmed in May that he had shut down his recruitment, announced on Monday that he has decommitted. "After much prayer and thoughtful conversations with my family, I've decided to decommit from the University of Kansas," ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team will engage in its final tuneup ahead of the 2025-26 men’s basketball season when it welcomes a Division II foe, Fort Hays State, to Allen Fieldhouse. Tipoff for the exhibition game is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, and it will be televised on ESPN+. It hasn’t been all that long since Fort Hays State visited Lawrence, as the Tigers made the trip east for an exhibition just ...
It took until the 76th minute for the Kansas soccer team to score on Sunday afternoon, but the Jayhawks put in a pair of goals late and won on the road at Utah, 2-0. The Utes didn’t have a shot on target for the first 73 minutes, at which point a match that looked headed for what would have been a frustrating scoreless draw for the Jayhawks took a dramatic turn. Utah’s Lilliah Blum popped the ball between ...
After making the Sunflower Showdown competitive in both 2023 and 2024 but losing in heartbreaking fashion both times, the most conclusive sign of progress for the Kansas program on Saturday afternoon would evidently have been to actually win the game. Instead, the Jayhawks took “a major step backwards” on Saturday by losing 42-17 to Kansas State, as KU coach Lance Leipold put it. “We were thoroughly ...
Of the many factors that have contributed to Kansas State’s recent domination of Kansas, the Wildcats’ special-teams supremacy might be the most salient. So when KSU fumbled the opening kickoff of Saturday’s 123rd Sunflower Showdown, leading to an immediate touchdown for the Jayhawks, it certainly could have seemed like an omen that KU was about to snap its 16-game losing streak at the hands of its ...