KU Women’s Basketball

How KU women’s basketball could line up next season

The Kansas women’s basketball team finished 11th in the Big 12 and missed the NCAA Tournament despite featuring two of the best players in the league and perhaps the nation. Forward Jaliya Davis became the first power-conference player ever to win her league’s freshman of the week honor ...

Evans headed overseas to Italy to start pro career

It was never a guarantee that Elle Evans would continue playing basketball after her career at Kansas was done. The 3-point sharpshooter, who finished her two years in Lawrence having made 43.6% of her attempts from beyond the arc to match Sandy Shaw for the program record, got worn down as ...

KU men’s, women’s basketball teams learn Big 12 opponents for 2026-27 season

The Kansas men’s and women’s basketball teams learned their league opponents for the 2026-27 season when the Big 12 released its scheduling matrices on Thursday. The conference’s full schedules, complete with dates and times, are expected this fall. The men’s team will take on Baylor, ...

March Madness tournaments will expand to 76 teams each starting next season

The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move that will drop more games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form. The new, 76-team ...

KU women’s basketball adds Southern transfer Cunningham

The Kansas women’s basketball team continues to fill out its roster, and on Wednesday afternoon it earned the commitment of Mykayla “Kayos” Cunningham, a 5-foot-10 guard who most recently played at Southern. For the Jaguars, who reached the NCAA Tournament and won a First Four game ...