Like universities and colleges across the country, the University of Kansas and the Big 12 Conference have been busy working on all kinds of plans for their student-athletes to return to campus. On Friday, they got a little help with that endeavor when the NCAA released its guidelines for the ...
Cue the virtual visits and keep those cell phones charged. It’s going to be a quiet summer on the in-person college athletics recruiting front. That much was learned this week, when the NCAA’s Division I Council Coordination Committee announced that the current recruiting dead period had ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team will travel to Oxford, Miss., this season to take on Ole Miss in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, the Big 12 Conference announced Thursday. Dates and game times will be announced later. Kansas is 3-1 all-time in the conference challenge, which began in 2014 and ...
University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Wednesday announced staffwide furloughs and pay cuts for all Kansas Athletics employees, including coaches, from June 1 through the end of 2020. An email sent to KU’s donors on Wednesday afternoon outlined four tiers of the department’s ...
The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to lift a moratorium on voluntary workouts by football and basketball players effective June 1 as a growing number of college leaders expressed confidence that fall sports will be possible in some form despite concerns about the coronavirus ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and some of the school's other coaches were back in their offices this week — albeit with a host of COVID-19-related precautions and new routines. Before entering the building, Self said he had to have his temperature taken. Masks also are required at all ...
Picture current University of Kansas basketball players selling you a cheeseburger or hyping a local car wash. Images such as those, and many more like them, are now one step closer to becoming reality in college towns across the country, as the NCAA is moving forward with a plan to allow ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team is bringing in a familiar face as its new assistant coach — Terry Nooner, who also served as an assistant in the 2012-13 season under Bonnie Henrickson. KU women’s coach Brandon Schneider announced Nooner’s hire on Thursday night. “Happy to go back ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider is relying on an ever-present list of names to help him fill an unexpected opening on his coaching staff during the current health crisis. With first-year assistant coach Larry Tidwell announcing Monday that he was leaving the program to be ...
While colleges and universities across the country wrestle with the idea of cutting sports to save money in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long said no such discussions had taken place in Lawrence. “We have not explored cutting any sports here ...
The Kansas women’s basketball program on Monday announced that its top assistant, Larry Tidwell, was stepping down from his role as associate head coach. Citing “personal reasons,” Tidwell said in a news release that he planned to return to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, to be ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team during the 2019-20 season endured another rough run through its Big 12 Conference schedule. But, as a whole, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long called KU’s fifth season under head coach Brandon Schneider “a small step forward.” “As I evaluate ...
Pay cuts taken by coaches in the Iowa State University athletic department this week will not be replicated at the University of Kansas for now, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long said. Despite the financial impact of cancellations brought about by the COVID-19 crisis, Long said Thursday he was ...
You don’t expect to hear the words “incredibly awkward times” come from the mouth of a college administrator with three-plus decades of experience who prides himself on having seen just about everything. Yet, Monday afternoon, on a Zoom videoconference from his home office, there was ...
Story updated at 5:53 p.m. Thursday The NCAA canceled its men's and women's basketball tournaments on Thursday because of the spread of coronavirus, putting an abrupt end to the season less than a month before champions were to be crowned. The unprecedented move comes a day after the NCAA ...
University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long said in a statement Thursday that all athletic-related travel is canceled indefinitely, and home and away athletic events have been suspended in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The statement came shortly after all NCAA conference basketball ...
Story updated at 12:01 p.m. Thursday The Big 12 and the other four Power Five conferences have canceled their basketball tournaments, putting the NCAA Tournament in doubt. Within minutes of each other, The Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Pac-12 — the five most high-profile conferences in ...
While the Kansas women’s basketball may have stumbled through conference play, the Jayhawks finished with their best regular season record since 2013 (15-14). Sure, 4-14 in Big 12 play is not ideal. But three of those wins came in the last six games, so the Jayhawks at least made some ...
The Kansas women's basketball team ended the regular season by falling to its in-state rival. The Jayhawks suffered an 83-63 loss to Kansas State on Sunday afternoon in the Sunflower Showdown at Bramlage Coliseum. With the loss, Kansas ended the regular season with a 15-14 record, which ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team couldn’t keep its recent late-season surge moving in the right direction on Tuesday night versus Iowa State. The Jayhawks fell, 61-42, in their regular-season home finale, despite a career-best 17 rebounds from junior Tina Stephens, whose 12 points made ...