WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU marks stadium construction milestone

Kansas Athletics held a topping-out ceremony for its stadium renovation project on Thursday afternoon, marking a significant milestone as it continues on track toward the August 2025 deadline for the project’s first phase. The last of about 6,500 total pieces of steel required for phase one, which deals chiefly with the north and west portions of the venue, assumed its permanent place near the southwestern ...

Jayhawk Classic brings top-10 matchups to Horejsi

Three of the top 10 collegiate volleyball teams in the nation — including the newly minted No. 10 Kansas Jayhawks — will descend on Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this week for a high-stakes edition of the Jayhawk Classic nonconference tournament. KU will host No. 6 Purdue on Thursday, unranked Tulsa on Friday and No. 9 Creighton on Saturday in a three-match gantlet that will demonstrate just how prepared ...

Date, details announced for KU's exhibition at Arkansas

The Kansas and Arkansas men's basketball teams finalized details on Wednesday of their forthcoming exhibition at the Razorbacks' home venue. The teams will face off at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Oct. 25 and will play for charity, as KU donates proceeds to the Overland Park-based Fore the Kids Foundation, which promotes children's mental health. Arkansas will support the Arkansas Children's ...

Big 12 power rankings: High-ranked teams face off this week, KU continues to drop

Only three points separate the top two teams in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. Utah remained No. 1 for the third consecutive week, receiving eight of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Kansas State, one of the league’s seven unbeaten teams, moved up to No. 2 with six first-place votes and 242 points. The marquee matchup of the weekend will ...

A closer look at the Passmore-Agbaji comparison

It was one thing for Bill Self and his coaching staff to compare Rakease Passmore to Ochai Agbaji during the recruiting process, as Passmore said in June that they had. It was another for Self to reiterate that assessment after having Passmore on campus for three months. “He’s kind of an Ochai Agbaji-type kid,” Self said in a recent interview with Seth Davis for Bleacher Report. “He will develop into a ...

KU's Grimes, Zebrowski likely to switch physical positions going forward

Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes said on Tuesday that it is more likely than not that he and co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski will switch their physical positions for upcoming games. “We’ve talked about it, and I think we may make that switch," Grimes said. "We haven’t made that decision for sure, but we’ve talked about it. We talked about it even prior to the last game ...