The San Francisco 49ers made offensive lineman Enrique Cruz Jr. the first Kansas football player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon. San Francisco picked Cruz at No. 179 overall with the third-to-last pick of the fifth round. In doing so, the 49ers went back to the well for their second KU lineman in three years after selecting Dominick Puni in 2024 as the highest-drafted Jayhawk since Aqib ...
Kansas guard Darryn Peterson announced on social media on Friday morning that he has declared for the 2026 NBA Draft. Long viewed as a surefire one-and-done as he came to Lawrence as the top prospect in his high school recruiting class, Peterson made his declaration on the final day before the deadline to enter the draft. In the process, he offered a “heartfelt thank you” to his teammates and everyone else ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team’s frontcourt is starting to take shape for the 2026-27 season following the commitment of Christian Reeves. Reeves, a 7-foot-2, 255-pound fifth-year senior center, made his decision public on social media on Friday evening in a collaborative Instagram post with ESPN. He was a third-team all-conference selection at Charleston following the 2025-26 campaign after previously ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider announced the hirings of two new assistants on Friday morning: Jerise Freeman and Jayci Stone. Both are Kansans with power-conference coaching experience. They replace Morgan Paige, who was recently hired as the head coach at Loyola-Chicago, and Karyla Knight. Returning coaches Brock McGinnis and Patrick Schrater have also received the new titles of associate ...
To be clear, I’m not saying Kansas is not going to get Tyran Stokes. That caveat has to go at the top because Stokes’ recruitment has been the sort of high-scrutiny, high-stakes affair in which the mere brand of athletic apparel he wears in an Instagram story can send three fan bases into a frenzy. So a published article considering a worst-case scenario needs to acknowledge that it is not in fact ...
To achieve a 30-win season for the first time as a collegiate head coach, Jennifer McFalls admits, has taken a bit longer than she would have thought. KU hired McFalls, a longtime Texas assistant, in the fall of 2018. The Jayhawks struggled early and got disrupted, like so many programs, by the pandemic; by 2023 she had them on the right track, won a Big 12 tournament game for the first time and earned a ...