The Kansas women’s basketball team has locked in its first commitment out of the transfer portal. Mariyah Noel, a 5-foot-11 guard who most recently played at Xavier, signed with the Jayhawks on Wednesday, the team announced. She is coming off a highly productive season with the Musketeers in which she served as their leading scorer with 14.9 points per game and second-leading rebounder with 6.3 boards. Like ...
It certainly helped Kansas’ cause in Kory Amachree's recruitment that Amachree grew up around wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel’s family when Samuel was at Michigan State, and that his older sister Kaema was friends with Samuel’s daughter Brooklyn, and that he himself was friends with Samuel’s son Draven, and that they all went on vacations together. But even despite that, Amachree said he would have ...
Former Kansas wing Jamari McDowell announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday night that he has committed to Wake Forest. McDowell, a Houston native, will join the Demon Deacons as a redshirt junior after spending three years with the Jayhawks. During the 2025-26 season, the 6-foot-5 McDowell worked his way up KU’s rotation and frequently served as KU’s first guard off the bench, even starting seven of ...
Just as soon as the Kansas softball team built some momentum amid a dull offensive performance against Missouri on Wednesday, the Tigers snatched it back. Anna Soles’ two-out, two-RBI triple tied the Border War at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning. But just a few moments later, Missouri first baseman Abby Hay homered off Chloe Barber to restore her team’s two-run advantage. KU left a pair of runners ...
In his first season with the Kansas volleyball team, Matt Ulmer coached the first KU match at Allen Fieldhouse in 12 years. Ulmer said at the time that the goal was to get a sense of the actual extent of the volleyball fan base in the region, in numbers beyond what Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena, with its capacity of 2,265, could accommodate. As it turned out, KU and rival Kansas State drew an announced ...
The NBA regular season wrapped up on Sunday, and while it’s not the end of the road for all of the former Jayhawks playing basketball at the highest level, it provides a convenient opportunity to check in on their progress. Some of the Kansas products in the NBA took steps forward, while others battled injury or saw their production decline. Quite a few will have the chance this postseason to become the ...