Some teams aren’t picky about what their postseason wins look like. But Free State’s boys basketball team isn’t one of them. The message in the locker room after the Firebirds’ 53-42 home win over Junction City on Tuesday was clear: When FSHS welcomes Washburn Rural for the substate ...
It didn’t take Lawrence High long to find its bearings in Tuesday night’s substate opener. Once the Lions adjusted to some unexpected pressure, they found an easy route to the next round, advancing with a 59-36 win over Olathe Northwest. LHS head coach Mike Lewis said the Ravens caught the ...
After coming out on the wrong end of more tight games lately than they would like to remember, players on the Kansas women’s basketball team will try again to snag that elusive win Wednesday night at Iowa State. In three of their past four games, the Jayhawks felt as if they were on the ...
Although Thursday’s game between No. 13 Kansas and visiting UTEP at Allen Fieldhouse was added at the last minute, it will hardly be a new experience for a couple of people on the Miners’ roster. UTEP coach Rodney Terry and junior guard Jamal Bieniemy both have experienced the game day ...
Former Kansas football star running back Pooka Williams will be back in Lawrence this week, hoping to prove himself as an NFL prospect at the Jayhawks’ pro day on Friday. Due to the pandemic, there won’t be an NFL Scouting Combine in 2021, making the pro days hosted by individual college ...
The Kansas football coaches picked up another three-star prospect for the Jayhawks’ 2022 recruiting class on Monday night, when Texas prep Jacobe Chester announced his decision to commit to KU. Chester, listed as an athlete by Rivals, is a potential defensive back at the college level, and ...
Throughout his career as a radio play-by-play announcer, Voice of the Jayhawks, Brian Hanni, has been able to feed off of the electric sights and sounds around him. But for six recent University of Kansas men’s basketball road games, Hanni and broadcast partner Greg Gurley were tasked with ...
Long before Shannon Clarke scored over 1,000 points during her career with Free State girls basketball, she struggled to win a simple one-on-one battle in her own driveway. Growing up, Clarke played her older brother, Daniel, almost every night in the summer. Daniel, who was six years older ...
In the business of college basketball, whether your team has been flexing all season or took a detour on the struggle bus at some point, it better be trending upward when March rolls around, because what transpires in the postseason is what everyone will remember anyway. That’s why there is ...
After not playing the weekend prior, the Kansas softball team returned to action by earning four wins and one loss at the UTSA Tournament this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas. Kansas (5-4) split the two games on Friday to start off the weekend, earning a 11-4 win over UT Arlington in the ...
In the second weekend of the 2021 campaign, the Kansas baseball team dropped three of four games in a road series against Florida Gulf Coast University. KU won the series opener, 5-3, on Friday before dropping three in a row to fall 3-4 for year. Right-hander Ryan Cyr got the starting nod in ...
Baldwin’s girls wrestling team took home a state title during Friday’s Class 4A-1A state wrestling tournament at Tony’s Pizza Events Center in Salina. The Bulldogs had four wrestlers place to score 54.5 points as a team, which was good enough to secure a state crown at just the second ...
A pair of Lawrence High wrestlers made it to the finals, but neither of them were able to come away with a state title at the Class 6A state wrestling meet on Saturday inside Hartman Arena. Lawrence senior Trey Medina’s undefeated season came to an end in the championship match of the ...
When the 2020-21 men’s basketball schedule was finalized, Saturday’s home showdown with Baylor was a game that every Kansas fan circled immediately. At the time, most thought the game could determine the Big 12 champion and be in the running for game of the year in college basketball. It ...
It took a lot of heroes in some fire red throwback Kansas uniforms for the No. 17 Jayhawks to knock off No. 2 Baylor inside Allen Fieldhouse Saturday night. So of course KU’s signature 71-58 victory needed a blockbuster level plot twist. On a night when KU big man David McCormack annihilated ...
It remains to be seen if Saturday night truly was Senior Night for Kansas guard Marcus Garrett. But even if the Dallas native elects to take the NCAA up on its offer for all seniors to come back for another senior season in 2021-22, it’s hard to imagine Garrett being celebrated quite like he ...
Kansas athletes Alexandra Emilianov and Rylee Anderson claimed individual Big 12 titles in their events on the final day of the Big 12 Indoor Championship in Lubbock, Texas on Saturday. The Kansas women finished sixth overall with 68.5 points, while the Kansas men tied for eighth with 51 ...
Kansas women’s tennis returned home to earn a 4-3 win over Iowa State on Saturday in the Jayhawk Tennis Center. “Today was the battle we expected it to be. Iowa State is one of the most improved teams in college tennis and (has) a great start to their season,” head coach Todd Chapman ...
The Veritas boys basketball team came up just short, dropping a 80-68 overtime heartbreaker to Manhattan Chief during Saturday’s KCAA State Championship game in Wichita. Veritas (14-9) was on the verge of capturing a state title, leading by 9 points with two minutes left in regulation before ...
Free State’s girls basketball team secured a postseason win by defeating Junction City, 50-26, during Saturday’s play-in game at Junction City. The Firebirds jumped out to an early 11-0 lead by knocking down shots and playing strong defense. After taking a 12-6 lead into the second ...
