The Kansas football team didn’t have to look far to find its first wide receiver commitment of the 2026 recruiting class. Nate Sims, who is from Ottawa, announced that he will play college football for the Jayhawks. Sims made his commitment at the Homefield sports complex in Olathe on Wednesday night. “You know, I grew up around Kansas, just living 25 minutes away,” Sims told Jon Kirby of ...
Jonathan Phog “JP” Bemberger, who had spent more than four years as an honorary member of the Kansas men’s basketball team while battling cancer, has died. He was 20. KU announced the news on social media Tuesday night. “Our beloved teammate, JP, has passed away,” read a post on the KU men’s basketball X account. “JP has been a member of Kansas Basketball since 2020 through Team IMPACT and has ...
Updated 10:21 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 23: Fort Worth, Texas — The crowd at Schollmaier Arena was energetic as it had been all Wednesday night, fired up by TCU’s renewed on-court vigor, until a pair of much-maligned Jayhawks combined to put Kansas back in front midway through the second half. AJ Storr hit a deep stepback jumper, David Coit drained a 3-pointer in transition and then Storr swiped the ball from ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self doesn’t think his team has dramatically improved over the last couple months. In November, he said, the Jayhawks were playing with a better pace. They also had a defensive edge at first, before they “went soft,” and they’ve had to fight to regain it since. When KU beat TCU at Schollmaier Arena on Wednesday, though, the performance of key reserves suggested ...
With four victories in its last five games, the Kansas men’s basketball team has put itself in an adequate position in the Big 12 Conference race, as 14 games are still pending on the schedule. The Jayhawks recently received assists from West Virginia, as the same team that stunned KU in Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 31 took down Iowa State on Saturday, and Texas Tech, which triumphed over previously surging ...
The 2024 season was my first as a voter in the Associated Press’ national college football poll. After submitting a preseason top-25 ranking at the start of August, each week I stayed up until the wee hours to ensure I could catch every relevant college football result, then turned in a revised poll. My selections were tallied alongside those of about 60 other voters to assemble the AP Top 25 rankings that ...