To hear UConn coach Dan Hurley tell it, the driving force behind the Huskies’ second-half rebounding surge against Kansas on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse was pain. Pain stemming from a realization that the Huskies’ lone previous loss on the year — a 71-67 defeat at home against Arizona on Nov. 19 — was largely a result of getting brutally outrebounded 43-23, and that UConn might be in for a similar fate ...
Updated at 11:11 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Kansas coach Lance Leipold and his counterpart at Kansas State, Chris Klieman, have often spoken over the years about their friendship. They share common roots as former Division III head coaches — Leipold at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Klieman at Loras — who worked their way up through the college football ranks to take over the premier programs in the Sunflower ...
Updated 4:19 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025: The Kansas football team made things official on Wednesday by signing 17 committed players for the 2026 class, including six Kansans, on the first day of the early signing period. In-state prospects linebacker Josh Galbreath (Lawrence), defensive end Hunter Higgins (Maize South), quarterback Jaylen Mason, wide receivers Tyren Parker (Shawnee Heights) and Nate Sims ...
Kansas will be without star guard Darryn Peterson for the seventh straight game when it faces UConn on Tuesday night, KU coach Bill Self announced. Peterson has been dealing with a hamstring injury throughout the season and has not played since the Jayhawks traveled to North Carolina on Nov. 7. Self told reporters on Monday that Peterson had returned to practice, but that he would need "to test out medically ...
For the first time ever, Connecticut has beaten Kansas, and it dealt the Jayhawks a rare nonconference home loss in the process. On the strength of a 7-0 run engineered entirely by veteran forward Alex Karaban, taking advantage of some rare lapses in an otherwise rock-solid KU defense, the Huskies seized the lead in the second half and did not let it go. The Jayhawks made just two field goals in the first 14 ...
Seven Kansas volleyball players received All-Big 12 honors on Tuesday afternoon as part of a poll of league head coaches. Freshman opposite hitter Jovana Zelenović was the Jayhawks’ most decorated player, as she received both a first-team all-league selection and a unanimous spot on the all-rookie team. Sophomore middle blocker Reese Ptacek, last season’s freshman of the year, joined Zelenović on the ...