WRITER: Matt Tait

Kansas guard Joe Yesufu becomes 4th Jayhawk to enter the transfer portal

After two seasons as a backup guard for the Kansas basketball program, Joe Yesufu is moving on in search of a new opportunity. Yesufu officially entered the transfer portal on Thursday, becoming the fourth Jayhawk to do so since the end of the season. Cam Martin, Bobby Pettiford and Zach Clemence all entered the portal earlier this week. A 6-foot guard from Bolingbrook, Illinois, Yesufu initially came to ...

Kansas sophomore Zach Clemence becomes third current Jayhawk to jump into transfer portal

Kansas forward Zach Clemence has joined teammates Cam Martin and Bobby Pettiford in entering the transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon. All three players just finished their second seasons with the Jayhawks and all three will be looking for new teams next season. Clemence’s departure is one that almost no one would have seen coming a year ago at this time. Although ...

Kansas guard Bobby Pettiford the latest Jayhawk to enter transfer portal

Another member of the 2022-23 Kansas men’s basketball team has entered the transfer portal, with Bobby Pettiford joining forward Cam Martin, who announced his plans to leave on Monday. A sophomore guard from Durham, North Carolina, Pettiford entered the portal on Wednesday and will be looking for a new team for the 2023-24 season. Pettiford had a decent-sized role during his two seasons with the Jayhawks, ...

Kansas running back Dylan McDuffie fitting in well with new team this spring

One of the biggest indications of the turnaround Lance Leipold is building with Kansas football surfaced during a recent interview with new KU running back Dylan McDuffie. A 6-foot, 220-pound redshirt senior from Buffalo, New York, McDuffie came to Kansas to rejoin the head coach and coaching staff for which he played from 2018 to 2020 at the University of Buffalo. But it wasn’t just the familiar names and ...

Matt Tait: Motivated KU women proving they're playing in the wrong tournament and having fun doing it

One of the hardest things to do in sports is to play hard in a game they tell you doesn’t matter. Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse, it was clear that no one told the Kansas women’s basketball team that the WNIT didn’t matter, and the Jayhawks rolled past Missouri, 75-47 in the second round. With the entire team devastated by being left out of the NCAA Tournament just eight days earlier, KU coach ...

One obstacle too many spelled the end for the Kansas basketball program on a tough night in Iowa

I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes. But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. A damn good Arkansas team delivered the final blow to a team that took punch after punch all season and kept standing. Having to face the ...