The Kansas defense and its coordinator Brian Borland were acutely aware last week that the Jayhawks had given up 427 rushing yards to Texas in 2022. When it came time to take on the Longhorns again, though, that awareness only meant so much. “We were 100 yards better than we were a year ago against Texas," Borland said Wednesday, "but that’s not saying much." This time around, KU gave up 336 yards on an ...
Last year’s Kansas men’s basketball team had 13 players on scholarship, and its bench was widely considered one of its greatest weaknesses; the Jayhawks’ backups averaged just 10.89 points per game, one of the lowest marks in the country. This year, with Zach Clemence still slated to redshirt after his unexpected return from the transfer portal (in what coach Bill Self called a “very fair” ...
Fresh off his victory at Notre Dame's Joe Piane Invitational on Friday, Kansas senior Chandler Gibbens earned the NCAA Division I National Athlete of the Week award Monday from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Gibbens finished first in a field of 155 runners at Notre Dame, beating his personal record by more than half a minute and coming in just two seconds before runner-up ...
Freshman Caroline Castans scored her first collegiate goal in the 86th minute on a rebound off a free kick, but Kansas couldn't muster another shot in the final moments and fell 2-1 to No. 21 Texas at Rock Chalk Park on Sunday. Both teams struggled to put shots on target in the first half, but the Longhorns' Trinity Byars seized on an errant pass from KU goalkeeper Melania Pasar to put Texas up 1-0 soon after ...
Three days after Arterio Morris was charged with rape and dismissed from the Kansas men's basketball team, KU coach Bill Self declined to comment Monday on how he weighed the decision to bring Morris to Kansas or when he first learned of the late-August allegation against his former player. Self, who was speaking to the media ahead of Friday's Late Night in the Phog exhibition, referred to the ongoing legal ...
Four possible combinations of starting quarterbacks could take the field Saturday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and not one of them would be particularly surprising. Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels had his recurring back tightness flare up Saturday at the team hotel in Austin, Texas, not long before the Jayhawks were slated to take on No. 3 Texas, and longtime contributor Jason Bean started in his ...