Former Kansas Jayhawk Andrew Wiggins became the 14th former KU player to win an NBA championship on Thursday night, following the Golden State Warriors 103-90 over Boston in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals. Wiggins was sensational throughout the Finals — on both ends of the floor — and likely only missed out on winning the Finals MVP award because he’s teammates with one of the greatest players in league ...
Details of new Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s six-year contract became available late Thursday night, and included among them was a clause outlining what the parties referred as “Incentive Year Seven” for participation in the NCAA Tournament. Currently written as a six-year agreement worth $3.16 million total, the contract states that Fitzgerald is entitled to a one-year contract extension, known ...
During his introduction at KU on Thursday afternoon, Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald made it clear that he believed the program had everything it needed to be successful. He also made it clear that he cared very little about the hefty challenges — how many, how daunting or how taxing — that he and the program will face as he attempts to pull the Jayhawks out of the Big 12 cellar in the years ahead. ...
The Kansas baseball program is now in the hands of longtime Division I assistant Dan Fitzgerald, who was announced as the Jayhawks’ new leader on Wednesday afternoon. Fitzgerald comes to KU after a one-year stint as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at LSU and nine years at Dallas Baptist before that. For the better part of the search to find Ritch Price’s replacement, those who followed ...
Multiple sources told the Journal-World on Tuesday that Central Michigan baseball coach Jordan Bischel was in Lawrence and on KU’s campus, presumably to interview for the open Kansas baseball job. Bischel, who turned 41 on June 2, just completed his fourth season in charge of the Chippewas and. In his first three seasons, he led them to two NCAA regionals. He won 47 games in his first year in 2019 and ...
Kansas newcomer Kevin McCullar Jr. did not have much time to worry about official visits or anything like that when he was choosing between KU and Gonzaga after deciding to leave Texas Tech. So it was helpful that he already knew a little about Kansas coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks. It was also helpful that one of his biggest sources of information was an old friend from Texas who he soon will be playing ...