Starting next season, major college football and basketball players will be permitted to transfer one time before graduating without being required to sit out a year of competition. The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to change the long-standing rule that has often deterred players in ...
At his introduction Wednesday at the Lied Center, new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff said that if he did not have to give a speech, he would be speechless. For the next 40 minutes, through his introductory remarks and a 25-minute question-and-answer session with the media, ...
New Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff, hired by the university on Monday to replace Jeff Long, will make $700,000 annually for the first three years of a five-year contract, putting him at the bottom of the 10-team Big 12 Conference. According to a recent report from the Associated Press, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Throw another big name in Kansas Athletics history behind KU alum Mike Harrity as a candidate for the Jayhawks’ open athletic director job. KU basketball legend Danny Manning, has expressed interest himself in KU’s vacant AD position, has now thrown his support behind Army’s Deputy ...
At the conclusion of a challenging season, Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider left Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday once again disappointed about a defeat, but at least in relatively good spirits about how his team competed. The Jayhawks lost to TCU in the opening round of the ...
A furious fourth-quarter rally from the Kansas women’s basketball team couldn’t erase TCU’s lead Thursday night in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament. Despite an 18-3 KU run entering the game’s final minutes at Municipal Auditorium, the Jayhawks never overtook the Horned Frogs, ...
The last time KU had an opening for an athletic director, I received a handful of calls from a few former KU football players touting Mike Harrity, then at Notre Dame, as a guy that Kansas should consider. Today, with KU's AD job open once again, the man who coached a lot of those players who ...
Ahead of his team’s trip to the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo., Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider had one specific, yet wide-ranging, word in mind when asked about areas where he would like to see his team improve. “Consistency,” Schneider said, in the days ...
It’s been 18 years since the University of Kansas was in pursuit of an athletic director and head coach to fill one of its most high-profile coaching offices at the same time. And that search, in 2003, led to the hiring of future Hall of Fame hoops coach Bill Self in April and Lew Perkins in ...
Kansas freshman Ioanna Chatzileonti earned a spot on the Big 12’s All-Freshman Team for the 2020-21 season, the conference announced on Wednesday. A key interior defender for the Jayhawks in her debut season, Chatzileonti, a 6-foot-2 forward from Athens, Greece, averaged 7.6 points, and led ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team will open postseason play at 5 p.m. Thursday against TCU in the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Seeded ninth, the Jayhawks (8-17 overall, 3-15 Big 12) will take on No. 8 seed TCU (9-14, 4-14) at Municipal Auditorium just down the street from where ...
It was going to take an extraordinary performance for the Kansas women’s basketball team to close the regular season with a win Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks’ chances against No. 6 Baylor got even worse when an injury to starting forward Ioanna Chatzileonti kept her out of ...
As the Jayhawks prepare to close their regular season Saturday afternoon against No. 6 Baylor, Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider hopes one problem area in KU’s latest loss won’t be a harbinger of more to come. Iowa State, in its 30-point victory over Kansas on Wednesday ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team’s losing streak hit seven games Wednesday night at Iowa State, where the Jayhawks suffered their most lopsided loss of the skid, 83-53. After a recent string of more competitive setbacks — their previous largest margin of defeat in the streak was 11 ...
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 ...
A fourth quarter comeback had the Kansas women’s basketball team within striking distance of an upset against No. 18 West Virginia on Saturday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse. But even on a day when the Jayhawks held Mountaineers star guard Kysre Gondrezick to 6-for-20 shooting from the field, ...
Only three games and eight days remain in the regular season for the Kansas women’s basketball team. And while recent results haven’t been what coach Brandon Schneider and the Jayhawks desired, they remain more hopeful than discouraged. Following a 9-point home loss to Texas earlier this ...