WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Jayhawks reflect on recent closed-door scrimmage

Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas women’s basketball team returns nearly every significant contributor from last year’s roster, so the Jayhawks have a lot of continuity entering the 2025-26 campaign. And even the Jayhawks’ five newcomers — four highly touted freshmen and one transfer, Lilly Meister — have certainly become quite familiar with the program, and with their teammates, by this late stage of ...

KU's 'granddad' Ngala brings experience, leadership as reserve guard

Nginyu Ngala had two choices: either begin his professional career overseas or head south to the United States. With three years at Dalhousie and one at Laurentian under his belt — in the Canadian U Sports competition, which gives players five years to play — Ngala was pretty sure he would have a fifth year of college basketball eligibility at his disposal if he went stateside. He had interest from a ...

Leipold says KU needs 'special' atmosphere for Saturday's rivalry game

Kansas coach Lance Leipold has been impressed by what he’s seen from away fans during the month of October. UCF's Acrisure Bounce House, he said on Monday, was a “very impressive game-day atmosphere,” and Texas Tech's Jones AT&T Stadium was “the loudest place we’ve played out this year.” Now he wants to see that same fervor replicated at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Saturday when ...

Bye-week breakdown: How KU's defensive and special-teams players are faring this year

It’s hard to know what to make of the Kansas defense, even with a fairly large sample size to consider seven games into the 2025 season. The Jayhawks’ young secondary has looked better than expected for much of the season, but got torn apart in a home loss to Cincinnati. The defensive front continues, as expected, to serve as the strength of the team, and the linebackers have been even better than ...

Bye-week breakdown: How KU's offensive players are faring this year

The second of Kansas’ unprecedented three bye weeks of 2025 has arrived, and with the Jayhawks seven games into the year and four games into the conference slate, this is the closest thing they’ll get to a halftime break this season. In the broadest possible results-based sense, the first seven games didn’t feature too many surprises. At rival Missouri and at cash-rich, high-intensity Texas Tech always ...

Mayo signs with Cavs, per agency

Former Kansas and Lawrence High guard Zeke Mayo has signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, his agency ADS Sports Management announced on Instagram on Friday evening. “Just the beginning for Zeke, who will surely keep turning heads and prove the doubters wrong,” the agency wrote in its post, which Mayo also shared on his own Instagram story. Terms of his contract with Cleveland were not disclosed. ...