It’s hardly rare to call the quarterback matchup a key to any college football game. But this week’s QB clash between No. 19 Kansas and the 3-3 Oklahoma Sooners is a little odd. Kansas (5-1 overall, 2-1 Big 12) will be without its starter, Jalon Daniels, who was injured in last week’s loss to TCU. And Oklahoma (3-3, 0-3) is expected to get its starting quarterback — redshirt junior Dillon Gabriel — ...
There have been all kinds of memorable moments at all kinds of Late Nights over the years, but very few were like Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse. The teams scrimmaged, the fans cheered and the atmosphere was wild and crazy, befitting of a season tipoff party. But at 8:10 p.m., the moment that everyone at Late Night in the Phog was waiting for arrived. A new national championship banner officially went ...
Each season, for the past 20 years, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has looked forward to starting a new season with the buzz and pageantry of Late Night in the Phog. This year, though, Self is anticipating the event almost like never before. “(This) will be the best Late Night we’ve had since 2008,” Self said Thursday. “Late Night is special for a lot of reasons, but it’s primarily to tip off a ...
Kansas coach Bill Self and four other Big 12 coaches put Baylor at the top of their preseason ballots, and that was enough for the Bears to claim the No. 1 spot in the preseason coaches poll for the second time in three years. But not by much. The Bears landed on top, with five first-place votes and 77 total points. And Self’s Jayhawks were right behind them, with four first-place votes and 73 total ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program officially picked up another piece of its backcourt of the future on Thursday night, when four-star point guard Elmarko Jackson committed to join the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Jackson, who attends the South Kent School in Connecticut, originally hails from Richland, New Jersey. He chose KU over finalists Texas, Miami (Fla.), Villanova and Notre Dame and announced ...
Kansas forward Jalen Wilson, one of two returning starters from last season’s national championship team, was named to the all-Big 12 preseason squad on Wednesday. Wilson, who flirted with turning pro but elected to return to school for the second season in a row, was one of six players on the Big 12’s first team. He becomes the 38th Jayhawk to earn preseason all-Big 12 honors and KU now has had at least ...