With a high level of returning production and the addition of arguably the best recruiting class in program history, the Kansas women's basketball team was picked to finish sixth of 16 teams in the Big 12 Conference in a poll of league coaches released on Thursday morning. The Jayhawks came in 11th in a disappointing, injury-plagued 2024-25 season that ended in the first round of the Big 12 tournament, after ...
Texas Tech was the unanimous pick for the top spot in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. The Red Raiders, who host Kansas on Saturday, received all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Arizona State, the defending Big 12 champion, was second followed by Cincinnati, BYU and Iowa State to round out the top five. Cincinnati moved up five spots, the biggest jump of ...
Todd “Leaper” Williams has been ingrained in the Kansas football program for decades, to the point that KU’s current head equipment manager Darren Hain calls him “the connective tissue that links 55 years of players, coaches and staff together.” Williams’ connection deepened even further on Tuesday — if such a thing is possible — when KU officially dedicated the Todd “Leaper” Williams ...
The $300 million gift that Kansas Athletics received from benefactor David Booth is every bit as momentous a donation as KU made it sound in August. It is the largest gift ever given to the University of Kansas and one of the biggest ever in college athletics; it is, as athletic director Travis Goff calls it, a “fully funded endowment that’s been gifted to us” that will fuel KU for decades going forward; ...
The Kansas women’s golf team won its first event of the season on Tuesday, claiming the title at the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational at Lawrence Country Club, and sophomore Ebba Nordstedt recorded her first-ever first-place finish. Nordstedt shot 6-under in the tournament, including an 8-under round on Monday that tied the program record for lowest score and set a course record. Her performance led the ...
Kansas tight end DeShawn Hanika underwent surgery and will miss the rest of the season due to injury, head coach Lance Leipold said on Monday. It is the second season-ending injury in two years with the Jayhawks for Hanika, who missed all of the 2024 campaign due to an Achilles injury after transferring in from Iowa State. “Unfortunately, his season has ended,” Leipold said. “A quality young man. Feel ...