As Kansas coach Nate Lie put it on Thursday, after his Jayhawks battled back twice to earn a hard-won 2-2 draw against BYU, "A tie is nothing to celebrate." Lie, in a press release, praised his team's effort and resilience, particularly after it had struggled in a 3-0 home loss to Oklahoma State the previous weekend. As he noted, BYU is a talented team less than a year removed from a Final Four appearance. But ...
As the Kansas football team climbed back to national prominence in 2022 and 2023, the Jayhawks’ special-teams units often lagged behind. Consider the SP+ rankings compiled by ESPN’s Bill Connelly. The Jayhawks finished the 2022 campaign with a minus-1.7 rating for special teams that was one of the worst marks in the country at 127th nationwide. By the end of 2023 they had skyrocketed (in comparison) to 0.4 ...
Kansas baseball head coach Dan Fitzgerald is no stranger to roster turnover. Most notably, he dealt with a brand-new roster when he arrived in Lawrence two years ago, ahead of his debut with the Jayhawks. But Fitzgerald’s history working with large groups of new players stretches much further into his past. “This is exactly what we did in junior college every year,” he told the Journal-World in a recent ...
For the second year in a row, the Big 12 Conference’s coaches picked Kansas to win the league and chose KU center Hunter Dickinson as the preseason player of the year. The selections were announced on Thursday afternoon. Dickinson is the first player ever to receive the preseason player of the year honor twice, and he was the only unanimous selection to the all-league first team. Point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. ...
Kansas has fallen to last place in this week's edition of the Big 12 power rankings voted on by a panel of media members who cover the conference. The Jayhawks have lost five straight games, four by a touchdown or less. Houston, which had previously been in last place, moved up to No. 13 after beating TCU. Meanwhile, Iowa State remained on top of the rankings for the second week in a row. Off to its best ...
The Kansas women’s golf team successfully defended its home course, claiming victory by a 13-stroke margin in the Marilyn Smith Sunflower Invitational at Lawrence Country Club on Tuesday. As a team, the Jayhawks shot a 6-under 858 in 54 holes for one of their lowest scores in program history. More notably, though, since they had already won the Golfweek Red Sky Classic two weeks earlier, they clinched a ...