Kansas needed every ounce of energy it could possibly muster to take down No. 13 BYU 90-82 on Saturday afternoon. The problem was that it had already expended a great deal of its energy reserves in the first half before a rocking Allen Fieldhouse crowd — as good an atmosphere as head coach Bill Self could remember in the building, he said — on its way to a big halftime lead. So it was perhaps a predictable ...
A game billed all week as a showdown between the potential top two picks in the 2026 NBA Draft delivered plenty of professional-caliber moments from Kansas’ Darryn Peterson — and not quite as many from BYU’s AJ Dybantsa — in the first half as the Jayhawks jumped ahead by 20 points at halftime, with Peterson having scored 18. But as Peterson sat out most of the second half, an all-too-familiar sight for ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team did well to recover from a 1-2 start to league play with four straight wins, including two on the road, entering its midweek open date. Now, at least in some sense, the real work begins. “Everybody’s going to go through a hard phase of their schedule,” KU coach Bill Self said on Thursday. “There’s no doubt about that. But this is certainly the toughest phase of ...
Becoming the president of the Omaha Supernovas in 2023, ahead of the professional volleyball team’s debut, required Diane Mendenhall to draw on the sum total of her experiences from more than four decades in and around the sports world. From playing volleyball at Kansas in the late 1970s to having her own daughter recruited at the Division I level, from leading a program at Concordia University to working as ...
Any team with a remote chance of obtaining a high NBA Draft pick — which, given the way the draft lottery works, the several months left in the NBA season and the possibility of trades, could be just about any team — would do well to have its scouting department represented in Lawrence on Saturday afternoon. Assuming that guard Darryn Peterson’s ankle cooperates — and Kansas coach Bill Self (on ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program has signed on to take part in the CBS Sports Classic beginning next season and through at least the 2029-30 season, it was announced on Wednesday. The event is a Champions Classic-like doubleheader of high-level teams with rotating locations that from 2014 to 2024 featured Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio State and UCLA. The Bruins pulled out in 2025 to preserve scheduling ...