WRITER: Matt Tait

11 hours after arrival on campus, Kansas freshman MJ Rice shows off all-around game during camp scrimmage

For months after he committed to Kansas, many questioned whether five-star prospect MJ Rice would actually wind up wearing a KU uniform or if he’d skip college altogether and jump straight to the pro level. The answer to that question came emphatically on Wednesday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse, where Rice competed for the first time as an official member of the 2022-23 Kansas basketball team. Eleven hours ...

Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris thrilled about facing best friend Isiaih Mosley when KU visits Missouri next season

Topeka — Although it’s not officially listed on the Kansas basketball schedule for the 2022-23 season yet, the Jayhawks know that at some point during the upcoming season, they’ll be heading to Columbia, Missouri, to take on the Missouri Tigers. That matchup, wherever it lands on the schedule, just became even more exciting than it already was for Columbia native and current KU point guard Dajuan Harris ...

Former Jayhawk Sherron Collins in line to become boys basketball coach at Free State High

Kansas basketball legend Sherron Collins has been hired to lead the Free State High boys basketball program starting next season, pending board approval. Collins, 35, replaces former Free State coach Sam Stroh, who resigned earlier this spring to get out of coaching altogether. “I’m so excited to be the head coach of the boys basketball program at Free State,” Collins said in a news release announcing ...

Kansas sophomore KJ Adams hopes to use confidence from final play vs. North Carolina as springboard for more minutes, bigger role next season

It’s probably not much of a twist of the arm to ask Kansas basketball fans to watch the 2022 national title game again or, specifically, the game’s final possession. A lot has been made in the past couple of months about then-freshman KJ Adams being on the floor for that final miss by North Carolina, and, on Monday, before the first summer workout of the 2022-23 season, Adams talked briefly about what ...

Where things stand with the search for a new KU baseball coach

It’s now been two weeks since Kansas baseball coach Ritch Price announced his retirement, and while things have been mostly quiet on the search to replace him, the process is underway. Here are a few thoughts as KU moves into Week 3 of the post-Price era. **• As of late last week,** I don’t believe any candidates had been formally interviewed just yet. But I think that’s probably coming very soon. ...

Lawrence's Tanner Newkirk caps high school career in historic fashion, ready to run down even bigger goals at KU

Thursday night marked the final race of Tanner Newkirk’s high school career. Fittingly, it was an all-star event that showcased some of the best talent in the Midwest running a true mile in St. Louis, Missouri. Even more appropriate was the fact that the HOKA Festival of Miles race for the Lawrence-born future Jayhawk came just a few days before legendary Kansan Jim Ryun is set to be inducted into the ...