When Lance Leipold was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin in 1993, the Badgers faced Michigan State in Tokyo in the Coca-Coca Classic; when Leipold was head coach at Buffalo in 2019, the Bulls took on Charlotte in the Bahamas Bowl. “Guys on that team talk about those experiences for the rest of their lives,” Leipold said on Monday. The KU coach said the opportunity to create such memorable moments for ...
Kansas is rotating through various players to occupy its fourth team captain spot over the course of the 2025 season, and of course it made sense for head coach Lance Leipold to pick middle linebacker Trey Lathan — a West Virginia transfer — during the week the Mountaineers were in town. But that was just one factor in Leipold’s decision to place Lathan alongside Jalon Daniels, Justice Finkley and Bryce ...
A second matchup against No. 18 Creighton this season — and a second match of the day — didn’t go too well for the Kansas volleyball team on Sunday. The 17th-ranked Jayhawks ended the Omaha Tournament on a sour note with a 3-0 loss to the Bluejays (24-26, 18-25, 22-25) at D.J. Sokol Arena. KU completed its nonconference slate at 9-5 after having previously beaten Omaha on Saturday and South Florida ...
Time was ticking down in the fourth quarter, Kansas running back Leshon Williams wanted to get out of Saturday night’s game, and it became clear to him that the shortest path to the sideline was through the end zone. “You want to know what was really going through my head … I’m going to tell y’all the truth,” he said. “It was about the fourth quarter. I’m like, ‘We got to finish, and it’s ...
Time and again during its 2024 Big 12 Conference slate, the Kansas football team suffered pre- and post-halftime setbacks that hampered its ability to build and maintain leads. If Saturday’s league opener against West Virginia was any indication, 2025 could be quite a bit different. KU scored a first-half touchdown just before the two-minute timeout, added a field goal as time expired and then got a 94-yard ...
Kansas and West Virginia enter Saturday night’s conference opener in Lawrence coming off hard-fought games against their biggest rivals. The difference is that KU is now two weeks removed from its 42-31 loss at Missouri, while the Mountaineers will hope to have moved on sufficiently quickly following a 31-24 overtime victory against Pittsburgh last Saturday. “If there’s any kind of hangover, whatever you ...