WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU football signs 15 high school commitments on signing day

Updated 4:37 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4: After a series of flips late in the fall reshaped the image of its 2025 recruiting class, the Kansas football team officially signed 15 incoming freshmen on Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period. KU’s recent additions from the month of November, receivers Bryson Hayes and Jaden Nickens and running back Justin Thurman, joined the Jayhawks’ 12 other ...

Final Big 12 power rankings: ASU on top, KU finishes at No. 9

When the season began, Arizona State was picked at the bottom of the Big 12 in its preseason media poll. The Sun Devils finished the regular season on top. ASU is No. 1 in the final Big 12 power rankings, receiving 15 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media who regularly cover the league. Iowa State was second, followed by Colorado (one first-place vote), BYU and Baylor. Arizona State and ...

Creighton prevented Dickinson from getting seriously involved in Wednesday's game

Omaha, Neb. — There were two potential All-American centers on the floor Wednesday night, but you might not have known it from watching the game — unless you looked at the alignment of Creighton's defense. The Bluejays returned to a tried-and-true strategy from past KU opponents that had inhibited Dickinson in some of his worst games of the 2023-24 season, loading up the paint with defenders, beyond just ...

Logan Brown will enter NFL Draft

The Kansas football team has a chance to send an offensive tackle to the NFL once again, as starting right tackle Logan Brown announced on Wednesday that he is declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft. "It has been an honor to represent the University of Kansas football program these past two years," Brown wrote on social media. "I want to thank my teammates for the memories we have made on and off the field and for ...

KU sustains first loss of season, 76-63 at Creighton

Omaha, Neb. — Kansas coach Bill Self knew Creighton wasn’t shooting from beyond the arc as well as it could. He said as much before the Jayhawks left Lawrence to take on the Bluejays on Wednesday night. Almost as soon as the game tipped off, Self was proven right. Creighton made five of its first eight shots from deep and was 7-for-14 by halftime, allowing it to outpace a KU offense that wasn’t ...

Ptacek wins freshman of the year, Bien scholar-athlete of the year; 4 more Jayhawks honored

For a Kansas volleyball team with so much experience across the board, one of the biggest postseason honors went to a freshman. Reese Ptacek, a first-year middle blocker from Prescott, Wisconsin, saw her first action at KU in late September and by early October had become a fixture in the Jayhawks' starting lineup. After averaging 1.94 kills per set on .325 hitting during the regular season to go with a ...