No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks (6-1) vs. No. 20 Colorado Buffaloes (7-0) Time: 6 p.m. | Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas TV: ESPN2 | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Sign up for ESPN+ and watch your Hawks on the go. Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow ...
The only No. 1 team in the area started the 2019-20 campaign off with a win. Bishop Seabury’s boys basketball team pushed past St. Marys for a 68-62 road win Friday night. Joao Carlos Ramirez started off his sophomore campaign with 28 points to lead the way for the Seahawks. Stavian Jones ...
Topeka — Despite a lopsided final score, the season-opening defeat could end up being an important lesson for the Lawrence High girls basketball team. For the Lions, the season opener served as the ultimate measuring stick for a team that is experiencing plenty of roster turnover. Topeka ...
Free State’s boys basketball team faltered down the stretch in a 51-49 loss to Manhattan High on Friday night during the semifinals of the Hays City Shootout. MHS outscored FSHS by a 24-11 margin in the final period en route to the narrow win. Manhattan will now play in the championship ...
With the December early signing period just around the corner, the Kansas football coaches are working toward adding to the program’s 2020 class. While Les Miles and members of his staff spent much of the past several days out of town recruiting, they were expected to welcome a handful of ...
Get Bill Self talking about his Kansas basketball team’s 3-point defense and his train of thought will eventually bring him to the arc on the opposite end of the floor. Self obviously wants his Jayhawks to play smarter perimeter defense, so future opponents don’t torch them the way Dayton ...
It is that time of the year again. The area basketball scene will be in full swing this week, with multiple teams slated to compete in tournaments next week. Over half of the area boys basketball programs advanced to the state tournament last year, and many of them have similar expectations ...
Right after Free State junior Caleb Streeter excitedly won his first match over Holton’s Conner Gilliland, senior Lou Fincher congratulated him by handing off a large silver chain. “You get to wear it if you get a pin,” Free State coach Steve Burns said. “It’s an honor to wear it ...
Overland Park — The Firebirds certainly got their money’s worth in the season opener Thursday night at Blue Valley West. It was a back-and-forth battle night all night between Free State and Blue Valley West, as both teams traded punches down the stretch. FSHS forced overtime after being ...
Free State’s boys basketball team rolled to a 59-35 win over Millwood (Okla.) in the season opener Thursday night at Hays Middle School. Sophomore point guard Mozae Downing got the Firebirds started with 6 of his team’s 16 points in the first quarter. It was balanced after that, as Free ...
In evaluating the first season of the Les Miles era at the University of Kansas, the man who hired Miles, Athletic Director Jeff Long, hesitated to call the 2019 season an outright success. And even though Long might be openly overzealous with his verbalized expectations that KU win every ...
When Kansas coach Bill Self and Colorado coach Tad Boyle locked horns as players with the Jayhawks and Oklahoma State Cowboys in the early 1980s, the two guards were a natural matchup. “I was the only guy he could guard,” Boyle joked during a Thursday phone interview with the ...
Just before the 100 butterfly began, a group of Free State swimmers started a chant. “Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt.” Matthew Reimer was who the chant was for. And it boosted Reimer to a sixth-place finish in the event during the first meet of the season, which took place Wednesday afternoon at ...
The 2019 girls basketball season begins today with multiple area teams taking the court. Last season, a pair of area teams qualified for the state tournament and many individuals had successful seasons as well. This year should be just as intriguing with interesting storylines to monitor ...
The last-place Kansas football team only won one conference game this season, but the league’s head coaches voted two Jayhawks onto the 2019 All-Big 12 first team. Both sophomore running back Pooka Williams and senior left tackle Hakeem Adeniji, the conference announced Wednesday, were ...
Although there were signs of life in a couple of games leading up to Maui, Kansas junior Silvio De Sousa found himself back on the bench, struggling with confidence during the Jayhawks’ most recent games. De Sousa, who played a combined 32 minutes in the two KU victories leading up to last ...
The latest winter sports season officially begins this week for Free State. Free State’s swim and dive team will kick off this season with a home meet Wednesday afternoon. The girls basketball team and the wrestling squad, both of which have a new head coach this year, will begin the 2019-20 ...
In the moments following KU’s Maui Invitational title game victory over Dayton, Kansas coach Bill Self mentioned that the 1-2 punch of Devon Dotson and Udoka Azubuike may be the best the program has had in a while. Whether that’s true or not is largely a matter of opinion and also depends ...
The way Kansas football coach Les Miles described it, there wasn’t much for the Jayhawks “to smile about” on their final Saturday of the season. Miles did allow for a slight departure from that line of thinking when it came to KU’s star running back. The Jayhawks weren’t able to ...
Before the 2019 Kansas football season began, I took a stab at a couple of different viewpoints on what was to come. The first belonged to the optimist and was a look ahead at KU’s first season under Les Miles from the perspective of those who believed there were plenty of reasons to be ...
