WRITER: Matt Tait

Freshman forward KJ Adams an early standout at Kansas basketball boot camp, according to 2 of his teammates

Three days into the Kansas basketball program’s latest round of boot camp, seniors Ochai Agbaji and Cam Martin highlighted freshman forward KJ Adams as one of the standouts so far. “I think just his God-given ability,” said Martin, when asked what caught his eye with Adams. “He's a freak athlete and very strong and mature for his age. I think he's going to have really good career.” Both Martin, a ...

Kansas men's basketball program to open Big 12 slate at home vs. TCU on Jan. 1

The Kansas men's basketball team will open Big 12 play on Jan. 1 at home against TCU, the conference revealed Wednesday. The Big 12 Conference released the complete conference schedule for both the men's teams and the women's teams Wednesday, and the Kansas men's basketball program will be featured four times on ESPN's Big Monday. It marks the 15th time in the past 16 seasons that KU will be on Big Monday ...

This week's big question: What awaits Kansas football at Memorial Stadium in Week 3?

Two games into the 2021 college football season, the Kansas Jayhawks sit at 1-1 and with an equal number of reasons to be encouraged and frustrated. What that means to the long-suffering Kansas fan base that showed up in force for the season opener two weeks ago will be revealed at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when the Baylor Bears come to town for the Big 12 Conference opener for both teams. First-year Kansas coach ...

Free State QB Jet Dineen happy to make a name for himself after following talented trio of brothers

From the time he first started playing youth football in Lawrence, Free State quarterback Jet Dineen was pegged as the best of the bunch among a talented group of brothers. All three of the older Dineen boys — Joe, Jay and Jax — went on to play in the Big 12 Conference. And Jet has had a front-row seat to watch and learn from all of their successes and failures along the way. “It’s been awesome,” ...

Boot camp 2021 gets under way for Kansas basketball program

The Kansas men’s basketball program’s famed boot camp began bright and early Monday morning, with the 18 players on this year’s roster running through the first day of two weeks worth of conditioning drills. Senior forward Mitch Lightfoot, who has been through five of these before, announced the arrival of the end of an era on social media by posting, “Beginning of the end! Boot camp year 6! Let’s ...

KU Chancellor Girod believes KU is on good footing following recent Big 12 expansion

University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Monday that KU “ended up in a good place,” in the wake of last week’s addition of four schools to the revamped Big 12 Conference. During Kansas Athletics Inc.’s quarterly meeting of its board of directors, Girod told the group that welcoming BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF to the conference in the coming years will bring “a lot of strength to the ...