The Kansas volleyball team's two-match series at TCU, scheduled for Thursday and Friday at Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, has been postponed. In addition, TCU's home matches against Texas scheduled for Oct. 30-31 also have been postponed. A specific reason for the postponement was ...
The Kansas volleyball team dropped its second consecutive match to Oklahoma with a three-set loss Saturday afternoon at McCasland Field House. The Jayhawks are now 1-7 on the year, while the Sooners improved to 2-4. Kansas jumped out to a five-point lead in each of the first two sets, but was ...
Kansas middle blocker Caroline Crawford, the Big 12's preseason pick for conference freshman of the year, was named the Big 12 Rookie of the Week earlier this week. A freshman from nearby Lansing, Crawford appeared in all 10 sets of KU's back-to-back losses to West Virginia last week, playing ...
Playing without kills leader Jenny Mosser for the second day in a row, the Kansas volleyball team rallied to build a 2-1 lead Saturday over West Virginia only to see the Mountaineers prevail in five sets, 25-16, 22-25, 22-25, 25-21 and 15-12. The 10th-ranked Jayhawks now have lost five ...
The ninth-ranked Kansas volleyball team dropped its second consecutive match to No. 1 Texas on Friday night, falling in three sets, 25-20, 25-19, 25-15. Friday marked the second night in a row that the Jayhawks (1-3) showed the ability to hang with the Longhorns (4-0) for large chunks of the ...
Top-ranked Texas swept No. 9 Kansas in three sets, 25-22, 25-19 and 25-22, on Thursday night at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. The victory moved the Longhorns to 3-0 on the season, while KU fell to 1-2. Texas now has won 17 consecutive home matches against Kansas, moving to 24-1 all-time ...
The Kansas volleyball team fell to Baylor in three sets Saturday night at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. Bouncing back from a five-set loss to Kansas in the season opener for both teams on Friday night, the Bears (1-1) won Saturday’s first set 25-14. The lead changed three times in the ...
The Kansas volleyball team opened its season in thrilling fashion with a 3-2 victory over Baylor at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena on Friday night. Kansas (1-0) dropped the first set 25-19 and rallied to win sets 2 and 3, 25-13 and 25-22 to move within one set of the victory. But the ...
The board overseeing Kansas Athletics on Wednesday unanimously approved two measures intended to shore up the department's financial situation as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain revenue streams. The first measure gives Athletics Director Jeff Long and CFO Pat Kaufman the authority ...
University of Kansas sports teams are preparing for a fall season like no other, with new precautions and shorter schedules because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what to watch for this year in football, volleyball, soccer and cross country. • Leading KU football won’t be any easier ...
The upcoming Kansas volleyball season won't have an NCAA tournament berth on the line, but KU coach Ray Bechard said recently that you’d never know that from watching his team practice and prepare this preseason. “We’re just going full speed ahead until somebody tells us something ...
An emotional conversation inside the Kansas women’s basketball locker room on Thursday turned into a Black Lives Matter march of more than 800 KU athletes, administrators, coaches and supporters on KU’s campus Friday. “Our players deserve all the credit,” KU women’s basketball coach ...
On the day the Kansas volleyball season originally was slated to start, the Jayhawks finally were able to release their pandemic shortened 2020 calendar. Instead of opening their season in late August with nonconference matchups, KU will play a Big 12-only schedule that begins the last weekend ...
The Big 12, SEC and ACC may be forging ahead with fall sports, but there will be no postseason championships for their non-football athletes to chase, the NCAA announced Thursday. “We cannot now at this point have fall NCAA championships,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a video ...
On the first day of preseason practices Friday, University of Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard made it clear to the Jayhawks that they have options. “If you don’t feel safe, let us know,” Bechard told them. “This isn’t something that you have to do.” Such is the new reality of ...
The announcements came within 40 minutes of each other Wednesday morning, one bleak, the other providing a glimmer of hope for a college football season that is looking iffy at best right now. First, Connecticut canceled what was supposed to be its first season as a major college football ...
Kansas Athletics on Tuesday night released the results of its most recent round of COVID-19 testing, which yielded zero positives in 156 tests. The testing, which included 136 athletes, took place last Saturday. KU did not provide a sport-by-sport breakdown of the athletes who were tested. ...
Updated at 10:24 p.m. Thursday The NCAA handed down its latest guidelines for playing through a pandemic while also sounding an alarm: The prospect of having a fall semester with football and other sports is looking grim. If the games can go on, the NCAA says college athletes should be ...
Even if no games were played, Wednesday was one of the biggest, most eventful days in college sports I can remember. First, Stanford announced it was cutting 11 of its 36 varsity sports, a scary move for the rest of college athletics that could be the beginning of a nationwide trend. “If ...
The only thing sports leaders should be promoting for fans right now is big-screen televisions, because the only way sports will have a chance to resume is if teams stay isolated and fans stay home. Even without fans, it’s far from a guarantee that things will go smoothly enough to actually ...