WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Henderson headlines KU's All-Big 12 selections

Emmanuel Henderson Jr. entered the 2025 season with five career catches and six career kickoff returns over the course of three years at Alabama. Given the chance at Kansas to show what he could do on both offense and special teams during his senior season, Henderson rewarded the Jayhawks with 45 catches for 766 yards and five touchdowns through the air, plus an average of 23.9 yards per kick return with one ...

Running back Thompson to enter portal

Kansas running back Johnny Thompson Jr. announced on Thursday afternoon that he intends to enter the transfer portal. Thompson, who spent three years at KU and is originally from Canoga Park, California, will have two seasons left to play. He carried the ball 24 times for 107 yards during his career as a Jayhawk, receiving some significant action in mop-up duty in a trio of blowout wins for KU early in the 2025 ...

Leipold weighs in on Klieman's retirement: 'He just felt it was time'

Updated at 11:11 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Kansas coach Lance Leipold and his counterpart at Kansas State, Chris Klieman, have often spoken over the years about their friendship. They share common roots as former Division III head coaches — Leipold at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Klieman at Loras — who worked their way up through the college football ranks to take over the premier programs in the Sunflower ...

UConn flips script on glass in second half to beat KU

To hear UConn coach Dan Hurley tell it, the driving force behind the Huskies’ second-half rebounding surge against Kansas on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse was pain. Pain stemming from a realization that the Huskies’ lone previous loss on the year — a 71-67 defeat at home against Arizona on Nov. 19 — was largely a result of getting brutally outrebounded 43-23, and that UConn might be in for a similar fate ...

KU football signing day: See who has officially joined the Jayhawks in the class of 2026

Updated 4:19 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025: The Kansas football team made things official on Wednesday by signing 17 committed players for the 2026 class, including six Kansans, on the first day of the early signing period. In-state prospects linebacker Josh Galbreath (Lawrence), defensive end Hunter Higgins (Maize South), quarterback Jaylen Mason, wide receivers Tyren Parker (Shawnee Heights) and Nate Sims ...

Big 12 confers all-league honors on 7 KU volleyball players

Seven Kansas volleyball players received All-Big 12 honors on Tuesday afternoon as part of a poll of league head coaches. Freshman opposite hitter Jovana Zelenović was the Jayhawks’ most decorated player, as she received both a first-team all-league selection and a unanimous spot on the all-rookie team. Sophomore middle blocker Reese Ptacek, last season’s freshman of the year, joined Zelenović on the ...