The Kansas softball team opened its home slate in style over the weekend with a three-game sweep of Utah State at Arrocha Ballpark by a combined score of 39-3. "I was really proud of the way our group came out ready to compete," head coach Jennifer McFalls said in a press release after Saturday’s 14-0 win to complete the sweep. "We were aggressive at the plate, had great energy in the dugout and kept building ...
Even as several other longtime Kansas men’s basketball streaks have fallen by the wayside, the Jayhawks still haven’t lost a home finale since 1983. They also haven’t lost to rival Kansas State at Allen Fieldhouse since Clent Stewart, Cartier Martin and company pulled off a comeback win for the Wildcats on Jan. 14, 2006. With KU looking to bounce back after a winless two-game trip to Arizona, those ...
The Kansas baseball team was perilously close to stranding its 13th, 14th and 15th runners of the game in the eighth inning on Thursday evening when St. Thomas gave the Jayhawks a gift. Second baseman Tanner Recchio’s throw on a two-out ground ball hit by Dariel Osoria pulled Joe Roder off the bag, allowing a pair of KU runners to score and breaking a 2-2 tie for the Jayhawks’ first lead of the ...
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kansas coach Bill Self had the unusual experience on Tuesday night of watching the final 26 minutes and seven seconds of the Jayhawks’ 70-60 loss to Arizona State from a computer in the Desert Financial Arena visitors' locker room. That meant he had the chance to hear the Fox Sports 1 broadcast mention at one point in the game that his team was 5-for-17 on layups. “What happens if you’re ...
After a historic first collegiate season in which she became the first power-conference player ever to receive nine straight freshman of the week honors, Kansas forward Jaliya Davis was fittingly named the Big 12's freshman of the year on Tuesday. Davis received the award unanimously in a poll of league coaches and is the first Jayhawk ever to earn it. The 6-foot-2 native of Overland Park, a former McDonald’s ...
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Kansas men’s basketball team cut a 20-point deficit down to two with four minutes remaining on Tuesday night, but couldn’t finish the deal. Arizona State guard Pig Johnson’s late-clock 3-pointer with 3:38 to go kicked off an 11-0 run, and ASU finished off a 70-60 upset win over the 14th-ranked Jayhawks after which its fans stormed the court at Desert Financial Arena. That KU even ...