The Kansas men’s basketball team took a small but significant step toward proving itself worthy of its preseason No. 1 ranking when it held off No. 17 Kentucky at the Champions Classic Tuesday night. What it faces in the coming days will be even more challenging. The Jayhawks will return to the Maui Invitational for the eighth time, looking to follow up their 2015 and 2019 appearances with a third straight ...
When the Maui Invitational announced its field for its 2023 edition — way back on April 5, 2022, the day after Kansas won the national championship — tournament head Dave Odom said that the group “may be the best one, at least on paper, that we've ever had.” A year and a half can render teams unrecognizable in college basketball, especially given the frequency and abruptness of player and coach movement ...
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels, who has been out for most of the season due to a back injury, quieted speculation about his future Thursday afternoon when he posted a social media video affirming that he intends to stay at KU following this year. "So you want something to talk about? Talk about this: I'm not done yet and I'm not going anywhere," Daniels said in the video. "Rock Chalk." In an accompanying ...
With two weeks left in the regular season, Texas remains the unanimous No. 1 in the Big 12 Conference power rankings. The Longhorns, in sole possession of first place at 6-1, received all 14 first-place votes from a panel of beat writers that regularly cover the league. Kansas State, in a four-way tie with Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Iowa State at 5-2, moved up to No. 2 with a 34-point win over Baylor and ...
Chicago — Freshman Jamari McDowell had played, in all, under 14 minutes of college basketball when he checked in Tuesday night at the United Center. He increased that career total by about 25% when he played the final 3:46 against No. 17 Kentucky, having spent nearly an entire game on the bench before getting thrown into the Champions Classic at the Chicago Bulls’ arena in a hotly contested battle of two ...
Watch the first defensive snap of any Kansas football game from the Lance Leipold era and you’ll almost invariably see Nos. 1 and 30 anchoring the defense. Safety Kenny Logan Jr. has started in 33 of Leipold’s 35 games at KU; linebacker Rich Miller has started 32. Both are fifth-year seniors, longtime fixtures and consistent contributors who either (in Logan’s case) saw what KU football was like before ...