The Wild West can wait. But not for too long. That was the message sent to college athletics on Wednesday by the NCAA’s Division I Council, which essentially tabled until January the proposed one-time waiver exception for student-athletes who transfer in men’s and women’s basketball, football, baseball and men’s hockey. To this point, athletes in those five sports who have transferred to another ...
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby not only believes college football games will be played this fall, but he also thinks fans will be in attendance. How many and how it all comes together remains a work in progress. But Bowlsby said Friday morning, during an appearance on SiriusXM Big 12 Radio, that he believes Big 12 football games will include spectators. “It really depends on how things go between now and ...
Newcomer Tyon Grant-Foster will become the latest Jayhawk to wear No. 1, the Kansas basketball program announced recently. Rated by some analysts as the top junior college prospect in the country out of Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, Grant-Foster, appropriately, was the first player in the 2020 class to commit to KU. He signed last November during the early signing period. Originally from ...
The Kansas volleyball team is ready to unveil its rebuilt roster this fall, and head coach Ray Bechard could not be more excited about the names on the list. After losing a handful of players from last year’s team, both to graduation and the transfer portal, Bechard and his coaching staff set out to fill the vacant spots with tough, dynamic and dedicated players who could make the 2019 team’s 9-17 season ...
ESPN’s Jeff Borzello and John Gasaway recently put together a list of the top 25 recruiting classes in the 15-year one-and-done era of college basketball. And while Duke and Kentucky dominated the list — combining to take the top seven spots and holding down 17 of the 25 spots overall — Kansas did make an appearance. The one key caveat for the creation of the list is that it was formed based on ...
The fate of KU’s men’s basketball program — embroiled in serious pay-for-play allegations by the NCAA’s enforcement staff — may be heading for an all-or-nothing moment. The Journal-World has learned from an NCAA source that the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions wants the University of Kansas’ case to be heard by a new panel, the Independent Accountability Resolutions Process, designed to tackle the ...