WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Big 12 power rankings: After Texas Tech, it's a logjam

For the second straight week, Texas Tech is the unanimous pick for the top spot in the Big 12 power rankings. Who's second is a tossup. The Red Raiders, who climbed to seventh in the Associated Press rankings this week, received all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. The next three spots are separated by a single point. No. 24 Cincinnati and Utah tied for ...

KU, Texas Tech fined; Big 12 says Leipold made 'inaccurate statement' about pocketknife

Updated 4:07 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025: The Big 12 Conference has fined Kansas $25,000 for “disparaging comments about the Conference and a member institution, and an inaccurate statement regarding a pocketknife by head coach Lance Leipold,” in the wake of Saturday’s game against Texas Tech. Leipold had alleged after the game that amid Tech fans’ tortilla-throwing tradition, which led to a pair of ...

Case promoted to associate head coach

Jeremy Case has received a promotion to associate head coach of the Kansas men's basketball team, KU coach Bill Self announced on Tuesday. Case, a former player in the early years of Self's tenure, has been serving on the KU staff since 2016 and as an assistant coach since 2021. He becomes the only assistant on staff with the associate head coach title. "Jeremy has done a tremendous job as an assistant coach ...

Three games to circle on the KU women's basketball conference schedule

The intensity of the Kansas women’s basketball team’s nonconference schedule has varied somewhat over the last several years. When they had a veteran team with loads of continuity in 2023-24, the Jayhawks were challenged by a preseason tournament that included top-10 teams in UConn and Virginia Tech. Last year, with very little returning production, KU went 10-1 in nonleague play, but its biggest wins were ...

KU men's basketball ranked No. 19 in preseason AP poll

After two straight years of opening the season No. 1 in the country, the Kansas men's basketball team will start its 2025-26 campaign at quite a different position. The Jayhawks received a No. 19 ranking in the preseason edition of the AP Top 25 poll, which was released on Monday morning. That's the lowest spot at which KU has begun a season since 2008-09, when the Jayhawks ranked No. 24. KU eventually ...

KU enters latest bye week with Sunflower Showdown looming

Lubbock, Texas — Entering a bye week off a loss is very familiar for the Kansas football team. Fortunately for the Jayhawks, so is exiting one with a win. KU slumps into its second of three bye weeks during the 2025 season coming off a 42-17 road loss at Texas Tech on Saturday night, much as it entered its last five bye weeks off road losses to Missouri, Arizona State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Baylor, ...