In receiving yet another Big 12 freshman of the week honor on Monday afternoon, Kansas’ Jaliya Davis accomplished something just five players have in the last 18 seasons. The award was the fourth in a row for Davis, an Overland Park native who has burst onto the scene in her first season with the Jayhawks. The only other players who have earned four straight since the honor was renamed to “freshman of the ...
With high-volume scorer Darryn Peterson out with a sprained ankle, Kansas was always going to need a wide variety of players to step up at the offensive end on Saturday night in Manhattan. The Jayhawks got precisely what they needed, perhaps to an even greater degree than anyone could have anticipated. Elmarko Jackson reset his career high with 19 points, a resurgent Bryson Tiller scored 16 and the ...
Allen Fieldhouse will play host to ESPN’s “College GameDay” for Kansas’ matchup against BYU next Saturday, Jan. 31. The hourlong pregame show with Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Jay Williams, Andraya Carter and Seth Greenberg begins at 10 a.m. Tipoff for the game is set for 3:30 p.m. The KU-BYU game, besides the fact that it will feature two ranked teams (No. 19 and No. 13 this week, respectively), will ...
Freshman guard Darryn Peterson will not play in Saturday night’s Sunflower Showdown matchup at Bramlage Coliseum, the Kansas men’s basketball team announced in a post on X. “Coach (Bill) Self has confirmed that DP won't play tonight,” read the post, which came about 15 minutes after a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel to the same effect. “He tested his ankle at shoot around today, but couldn't get ...
A video that might once have been near and dear to the hearts of Kansas State fans found its way into the Kansas men's basketball players’ group chat in advance of Saturday’s Sunflower Showdown. The KU coaches sent them a clip of the Bramlage Coliseum crowd storming the court on Jan. 17, 2023, after the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks 83-82. KU had prior to that point won 15 of the last 16 matchups with ...
Kansas won its first Big 12 road game of the season against Colorado on Tuesday. Despite the result — and perhaps because they were playing at altitude, but whatever the case — the Jayhawks lacked the intensity on both ends of the floor that they had displayed in recent home victories over Iowa State and Baylor. “I actually saw things last week that (gave) me a thought, saying we could be really good at ...