Still riding the wave of becoming bowl eligible for the first time in more than a decade, the Kansas football program picked up its first commitment from a player in the Class of 2024 on Tuesday night. Running back Red Martel, a 6-foot, 205-pound back out of Beggs, Oklahoma, announced on social media, just after 7 p.m. that he was committed to Kansas. The fact that Martel was in the stands on an unofficial ...
Entering Monday’s season opener with fifth-ranked Kansas, Norm Roberts had been on the bench as a college head coach 290 times before. But even that type of experience, spread out over 10 seasons at Queens College and St. John’s in the late-1990s and early 2000s, did not prevent KU’s acting head coach from feeling a few butterflies before the Jayhawks’ 89-64 win over Omaha at Allen Fieldhouse. ...
Kansas running back Devin Neal’s monster performance in KU’s win over Oklahoma State earned him the Big 12 Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week honor on Monday. Neal, who hails from Lawrence, finished with 324 combined yards in a 37-16 victory that made the Jayhawks bowl eligible for the first time since the 2008 season. He became the first player in KU history to rush for more than 200 yards (224 ...
Thanks to Saturday’s 37-16 win over 18th-ranked Oklahoma State, the Kansas football team and its fans no longer have to wonder if the Jayhawks will end their bowl drought this season. It’s happening. With six wins in nine games and three more chances to add to their win total before the end of the regular season, the Jayhawks are going bowling again this winter. Here’s a quick look at their options and ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team unofficially will be Norm Roberts’ squad for the next 18 days while head coach Bill Self serves a four-game suspension handed down by KU earlier this week in an effort to speed up KU’s NCAA infractions case. A ruling in the case, which has been ongoing since KU received a notice of allegations from the NCAA in September of 2019, likely will not come until sometime in ...
It took three losses and a bye week to get over the hump, but the Kansas football team is officially bowl-bound again for the first time since the 2008 season. Where, who and when they’ll play remains to be seen and could depend a lot on how things go in the final three games of the season. The way these guys see it, there’s still more work to be done and more wins to achieve. But after weeks of seeing ...