About four hours after Kansas concluded its disappointing 38-14 loss at Iowa State on Saturday, another scoreline undoubtedly caught the attention of the KU faithful. The rival Kansas State Wildcats, on the strength of a whopping 471 rushing yards and counting, had as a result of a touchdown run by Joe Jackson with seven minutes to go taken a 47-35 lead on the road at then-No. 12 Utah, a College Football ...
Former Kansas defensive tackle recruit Lucas Smalls-Allen announced on Monday that he will instead attend Wake Forest. The move came just nine days prior to the start of the early signing period and leaves the Jayhawks with one interior defensive lineman, Na’kwaine Carter, in their 2026 class. That class is down to 18 recruits with the loss of Smalls-Allen. Smalls-Allen is a three-star prospect from Blessed ...
Las Vegas — When Syracuse started hitting 3s after previously struggling to shoot, it could have spelled disaster for Kansas. When Tyler Betsey connected from deep with six minutes remaining to cut KU’s lead to 52-50, it brought the Orange the closest they had been since the opening minutes — and the Jayhawks had nothing going on offense. Then Tre White made something out of nothing. The senior transfer ...
Las Vegas — Redshirt sophomore guard Jamari McDowell has made key contributions to Kansas in the past, but they’ve generally taken the form of extended cameos. McDowell was only three games into his college career when he stepped in late to lock down Kentucky’s fifth-year guard Antonio Reeves and drain the clinching free throws at the Champions Classic in November 2023; three more games after that, he ...
Las Vegas — All the momentum was on Notre Dame’s side when Cole Certa stepped into a 3-point attempt from the right wing with eight minutes left in Monday’s game against Kansas. The Fighting Irish had cut their deficit to four points against an increasingly depleted and worn-out group of Jayhawks and could have gotten even closer had Certa’s fast-break attempt been on target. Instead, it rolled out to ...
Las Vegas — Kansas guard Jayden Dawson had been creeping his way up the Jayhawks’ rotation, to the point that he had become KU’s first guard off the bench. In fact, in KU’s recent victory over Princeton in Lawrence and loss to Duke in New York, Dawson had drawn a slightly higher share of minutes than one of the Jayhawks’ starters, struggling freshman wing Kohl Rosario. But a setback on Monday at MGM ...