The minute she heard that the University of Kansas was looking for a new athletic director, Patti Phillips, the CEO of the Kansas City-based organization Women Leaders in College Sports, felt her adrenaline surge. Every open AD job at a Power 5 university is a new opportunity for Phillips, ...
For the third consecutive day, a member of the 2020-21 Kansas men’s basketball team added his name to the transfer portal on Wednesday. Freshman forward Gethro Muscadin becomes the latest Jayhawk to decide to head elsewhere, joining wings Tyon Grant-Foster and Tristan Enaruna who put their ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that junior forward David McCormack had surgery Wednesday to repair a broken bone in his foot. McCormack, who finished second on the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game this season, is expected to be out for 12 weeks and will return ...
Less than 24 hours after learning about the departure of two players from the 2020-21 roster, the Kansas men’s basketball program got word of a replacement when Bobby Pettiford Jr., a 6-foot-1, 175-pound point guard from Creedmoor, N.C., announced his commitment to the Jayhawks on social ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told the Journal-World on Tuesday that KU sophomore Tristan Enaruna was leaving the program and had entered his name into the transfer portal. Enaruna becomes the second Jayhawk to announce his plans to leave this week, following the lead of junior guard Tyon ...
Kansas junior Tyon Grant-Foster has entered the transfer portal, KU coach Bill Self announced Monday afternoon. Grant-Foster, the former No. 1-ranked junior college player in the country, appeared in 20 games for the Jayhawks during his lone season with the program, averaging 3.1 points and ...
While the list of candidates to fill the University of Kansas’ vacant athletic director chair remains vast, there is reason to believe that at least a couple of KU grads are in the mix. It’s still too early to know exactly which direction KU’s search committee is headed with the hire, ...
Eight Kansas men’s basketball players and five more from KU’s women’s hoops team earned Academic all-Big 12 honors this week, the Big 12 announced this week. The eight selections on the men’s side were the most for Kansas in the 25-year history of the conference, surpassing the ...
After 45 years in coaching, the last 10 coming as the head basketball coach at Oklahoma, Sooners coach Lon Kruger is retiring at the age of 68. Oklahoma announced the news on Thursday afternoon and the school’s athletic department has planned a press conference for 9:45 a.m. Friday. The ...
On national search firm TurnkeyZRG’s website, the listing for the University of Kansas’ open athletic director position has an instruction for applicants in bold type: “Contacting the University of Kansas will delay your consideration.” In other words, applicants need to go through ...
As college basketball players around the country continue to seek out new opportunities, the Kansas men’s basketball program has started to surface as a potential landing spot for a few of them. Yesterday, we shared a report that [Northeastern’s sophomore point guard, Tyson Walker, had ...
As is the case every offseason, the Kansas men’s basketball roster figures to get a facelift in the coming months. Decisions are made, players come and go, and the 2021-22 team, which still should have a ton of familiar faces, suddenly looks different than the roster that had its season end ...
Still smarting from his team’s [85-51, season-ending loss to sixth-seeded USC on Monday night][1] in Indianapolis, Kansas coach Bill Self talked about the Trojans the way dozens of past KU opponents had always talked about the Jayhawks. Too big. Too long. Too athletic. Too talented. It ...
The way the Jayhawks struggled to score inside this season, Kansas was going to need some good fortune in terms of March Madness matchups to make any kind of deep run in 2021. In the NCAA Tournament’s 68-team field, there might not have been any team more perfectly suited to knock out Kansas ...
Indianapolis — The reality of what was coming showed on Kansas senior Marcus Garrett’s face throughout [Monday’s 85-51 loss to sixth-seeded USC][1] at Hinkle Fieldhouse. A flinch here. A grimace there, both admissions of frustration without the utterance of a single word. But as long ...
This year’s NCAA Tournament will be remembered for years to come by those who live and die with March Madness outcomes. And around Lawrence, where the absence of brackets and a potential national championship run in 2020 still stings for some, it will be impossible to look back on the 2021 ...
Indianapolis — USC’s Mobley brothers, Evan and Isaiah, did to third-seeded Kansas on Monday night what Eastern Washington’s Groves brothers, Tanner and Jacob, could not just two days earlier. They sent the Jayhawks home with a gut-wrenching 85-51 loss in the second round of the NCAA ...
Indianapolis — The Journal-World learned Monday morning that Kansas freshman Jalen Wilson landed in Indianapolis a little after 9:30 a.m. local time, roughly 12 hours before tipoff of 3rd-seeded KU’s Monday night game with No. 6 seed USC at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Wilson, who missed KU’s ...
Indianapolis — Few venues in sports, let alone in college basketball, can match the history and feel of KU’s Allen Fieldhouse. Hinkle Fieldhouse is one of them. Built in 1928 thanks to the generosity of 41 businessmen, the arena, originally known as Butler Fieldhouse, opened with a ...
No. 3 Kansas Jayhawks (21-8) vs. No. 6 USC Trojans (23-7) Time: 8:40 p.m., Monday, March 22, 2021 Location: Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Ind. TV: CBS | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on ...