The Kansas women’s basketball team is bringing in a familiar face as its new assistant coach — Terry Nooner, who also served as an assistant in the 2012-13 season under Bonnie Henrickson. KU women’s coach Brandon Schneider announced Nooner’s hire on Thursday night. “Happy to go back home,” Nooner tweeted shortly after the hire was announced. “RCJH.” Nooner replaces Larry Tidwell, who left the ...
Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji is looking to put the Jayhawks back in the NFL draft this week after KU's absence from the draft last year. If successful, he’ll become just the second Jayhawk to be drafted since 2016. Two years ago, former KU defensive end Dorance Armstrong Jr. was selected by Dallas in the fourth round of the 2018 draft, ending a then-two-year drought of Jayhawk draft picks. Round 1 ...
When Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was formally introduced as the eighth head coach in program history 17 years ago Tuesday, then-KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway called it “a day to make dreams come true.” No one could have known then that Self would go on to exceed the highly successful stretch of winning that Roy Williams accomplished before Self was hired, or that Self one day would eclipse 700 career ...
On Oct. 11, 1997, three weeks before they kicked off one last run to an NBA title, the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan came to Allen Fieldhouse for an exhibition game against the Seattle Supersonics. That season, which capped off the second of a pair of three-peats in Chicago for Jordan and the Bulls, is the subject of a 10-part ESPN documentary dubbed “The Last Dance,” which debuted on Sunday night. ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider is relying on an ever-present list of names to help him fill an unexpected opening on his coaching staff during the current health crisis. With first-year assistant coach Larry Tidwell announcing Monday that he was leaving the program to be closer to his family in Fort Worth, Texas, Schneider has been tasked with hiring Tidwell’s replacement at a time when ...
While colleges and universities across the country wrestle with the idea of cutting sports to save money in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long said no such discussions had taken place in Lawrence. “We have not explored cutting any sports here at KU,” Long told the Journal-World on Friday. “There are other areas of our budget where we can cut expenses rather ...