What Kansas and its fans consider a rough patch is evidently different than at other basketball programs, many of which would be delighted to receive a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, as KU did in 2025 in the worst season of Bill Self’s tenure as head coach. That’s not to say that other schools don’t have high standards, but Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and UCLA have all missed the ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold’s 19 years as a head coach have featured multiple situations in which his patience and his convictions were rewarded. When he went 7-3 at Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2012, in what he said was characterized as a “disastrous season” after he had won four national titles in his first five years, he made some small adjustments to his coaching staff — not necessarily voluntarily, he ...
The Kansas football team will begin spring practice on Thursday morning, providing the first look at a reconstituted roster that will attempt to elevate the KU program during the 2026 season. The Jayhawks lost much of their skill-position talent from 2025, a campaign in which they finished 5-7 and fell short of the postseason for the second straight year, but they do return some key defensive pieces who have ...
SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood KU’s freshman star Darryn Peterson, who had drifted out to the right wing to prevent a potential kick-out to Oziyah ...
A new franchise in the United Football League has gone heavy on Lance Leipold-era Kansas football players in constructing its roster. The Louisville Kings, who will kick off their inaugural season against the Birmingham Stallions on Friday at 8 p.m. at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, feature three recent former Jayhawks: quarterback Jason Bean, offensive tackle Earl Bostick Jr. and defensive end ...
SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet whether he will return for the 2026-27 season, Bill Self left room for the possibility that the program could ...