WRITER: Matt Tait

No need to share: TCU's Wednesday night win over Texas gives Kansas outright Big 12 title

The team that handed 3rd-ranked Kansas its worst loss of the season back in January did the Jayhawks a pretty big favor on Wednesday night in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU’s 75-73 win over Texas made the Jayhawks the outright Big 12 champions for the 2022-23 season. KU clinched a share of the title with its win over Texas Tech at Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday night. But the Longhorns loss on Wednesday at TCU put ...

No. 1 overall seed or not, Kansas clearly has earned top spot in the Midwest region

Say what you want about Bracketology and the various NCAA Tournament projections that make the rounds each year, but this one should be easy. With a win Saturday at Texas — no small feat — the Kansas Jayhawks absolutely should be this year’s No. 1 overall seed and should be placed in the Midwest region. A strong argument could be made for that being the case win or lose this weekend, but a win at UT ...

Sweet, scrappy senior send-off: No. 3 Kansas fights past Texas Tech with huge plays late

After being showered with flowers, applause and love long before Tuesday’s home finale with Texas Tech began, outgoing Kansas basketball seniors Kevin McCullar Jr. and Jalen Wilson quickly did their part to give something back. Scoring 19 of KU’s 30 first-half points, McCullar and Wilson led the third-ranked Jayhawks to their 40th consecutive win on Senior Night, 67-63 at Allen Fieldhouse. Tuesday’s ...

KU's Kevin McCullar Jr. and Taiyanna Jackson named semifinalists for Naismith Award's Defensive Player of the Year honor

The Kansas men’s and women’s basketball programs each landed a player on the semifinalist list for the Naismith Award’s defensive player of the year honor this week. KU senior Kevin McCullar Jr. was named one of 10 semifinalists for the men’s award on Tuesday morning, one day after senior center Taiyanna Jackson landed on the same list on the women’s side. It marks the second year in a row that ...

Leaders lining up left and right for still-building Kansas football program

Tuesday marked the opening day of spring football at the University of Kansas, the first of 15 practices spread throughout the next five weeks designed to advance the key components of the KU way under head coach Lance Leipold. While building chemistry, adding speed and size and using reps to develop and improve will be an important part of all of it, the Jayhawks set the stage for the spring by putting a huge ...

Kansas football announces major renovation plans for locker room, weight room at Anderson Family Football Complex

The Kansas football program will have a new locker room and weight room for the 2023 season. And the construction is supposed to begin in full in a little more than a month. KU announced the timeline for the plan — the first in a series of upgrades to both the Anderson Family Football Complex and David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and the surrounding area — in a news release Monday evening. KU ...