Updated 10:12 p.m. Tuesday: Zeke Mayo is coming home. The former Lawrence High basketball standout and 2023-24 Summit League player of the year announced Tuesday evening that he is transferring to Kansas. Mayo picked his hometown Jayhawks over Creighton, Oklahoma and Texas; On3 had reported he planned to visit Oklahoma next week. Instead, he joins KU from South Dakota State, where he spent three years. As a ...
With 18 conference games to go, the Kansas baseball team is now one win away from matching its league win total from all of last season. That's because the Jayhawks swept BYU in Provo, Utah, late last week, topping the Cougars 11-1 on Thursday before holding on for 4-3 and 8-5 victories in Friday's doubleheader. While KU has generally been best in games started by transfer pitcher and No. 1 starter Reese ...
Kansas picked up the commitment of one transfer guard Sunday, is one of the top choices for another and has now placed itself in contention for a third. With the services of Florida transfer Riley Kugel already secured and Lawrence native Zeke Mayo considering making the move from South Dakota State, KU is firmly in the conversation for former Toledo guard Dante Maddox Jr. Sam Kayser of 24/7 High School Hoops ...
Updated 3:07 p.m. Sunday: The Kansas men's basketball team picked up its first transfer of the offseason on Easter Sunday when former Florida guard Riley Kugel announced that he will join the Jayhawks next year. Kugel, a native of Orlando, Florida, averaged 9.2 points and 3.5 rebounds per game for the Gators as a sophomore during the 2023-24 season, a slight scoring downturn after a breakout first year that ...
Kansas’ new offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes has said his quarterbacks will take some snaps under center this year. “How much we do under center just kind of depends on the personnel of the team,” he added. For example, he did more when he was at Baylor with Gerry Bohanon than in later years with the Bears; he did less at BYU with Zach Wilson than he had previously. That willingness to adapt could be ...
Just before Kansas took the field to battle Kansas State last November, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace asked Devin Neal — who had a pending decision to make about going to the NFL or staying for another year — whether it was going to be his last game in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. “He said, ‘We’ll find out,’” Wallace recalled on Thursday. “And I asked him that because I wanted to ...