Kansas juniors Bailey Helgren and Tina Stephens dominated the second half to lead the KU women’s basketball team to a 66-55 win against Emporia State in exhibition play Sunday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse. With the win, Kansas ended exhibition play with a 1-1 record. Both Helgren and ...
According to KU's annual Equity in Athletics report, at the University of Kansas the average salary of head coaching positions of men’s teams is over $1.5 million more than that of the head coaches of women’s teams. The report, which was due Oct. 15 to the NCAA, was recently requested and ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team fell to Pittsburg State 90-82 in its first exhibition game of the 2019-20 season in Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday. The Jayhawks had six players score in double-figures in the loss. Sophomore Brooklyn Mitchell led the team, scoring 19 points on 52.9% shooting ...
With turnover in college basketball becoming more prevalent with the addition of the transfer portal and players leaving due to graduation or turning professional, coaches constantly have to adjust. “I think even if you lose one player it still looks different chemistry-wise,” Texas ...
With losing nine players — including seven seniors — from the 2018-19 team, Kansas women’s basketball has emphasized filling gaps this offseason. “This has been a critical offseason for us, dating all the way back to when they reported in June,” KU coach Brandon Schneider said at ...
World-famous rapper, producer and television personality Snoop Dogg will be the headlining performer at the University of Kansas' annual Late Night in the Phog. The 35th annual Late Night in the Phog, which kicks off the start of the KU men's and women's basketball seasons, will be held ...
The Big 12 released its 2019-20 conference schedule Wednesday morning. The Kansas women's basketball team will begin its 18-game conference schedule when it travels to Stillwater, Okla., to take on Oklahoma State on Jan. 4. KU’s first home contest against a conference opponent will be four ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program on Thursday afternoon announced Friday, Oct. 4 as the date for this year’s Late Night in the Phog at Allen Fieldhouse. This year’s event will be the 35th annual Late Night extravaganza that annually kicks off another season of Kansas basketball. As ...
Kansas will have 10 homes contests, including a pair of exhibition games, ahead of Big 12 play during Brandon Schneider's fifth season at the helm of the women's basketball program, according to a news release Wednesday. KU will begin exhibition play on Sunday, Oct. 27 against Pittsburg State. ...
Forty Kansas Athletics employees specializing in sports medicine are now reporting to actual doctors and medical professionals instead of KU administrators. Through a collaboration with The University of Kansas Health System and LMH Health, Kansas Athletics on Wednesday morning announced the ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider characterized a Wednesday morning meeting with first-year KU athletic director Jeff Long as having gone well and came away feeling like Long was in his corner. “Jeff wants to see improvement and Jeff wants to see us win more games,” ...
Seven University of Kansas teams achieved perfect 1,000 single-year Academic Progress Rate scores, and KU’s women’s cross country team picked up a Public Recognition Award for scoring in the top 10 percent of its sport over the course of multiple years, the NCAA announced on ...
Kansas head women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider has added Larry Tidwell as associate head coach and Jhasmin Player as an assistant coach to his complete his staff on Monday. Tidwell and Player fill vacancies left by Aqua Franklin and Jory Collins, who both became Division I head coaches ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team suffered a 75-58 loss to end its season Saturday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena. KU’s loss in the quarterfinals in the Big 12 tournament came one night after the team took down Oklahoma State, which snapped a 10-game losing skid. The Jayhawks couldn’t ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team made enough plays down the stretch to secure its first win since Jan. 30. After clinging to a 2-point lead entering the fourth quarter, KU scored 21 points in the final period to finish off a 76-66 win over Oklahoma State Friday night at Chesapeake Energy ...
Kansas women's basketball seniors Kylee Kopatich and Christalah Lyons were named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention for their efforts during Big 12 Conference play this season, as announced by the league office Wednesday afternoon. Lyon's All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection is the second of her ...
The once-promising, injury-riddled Kansas basketball career of Jessica Washington officially has come to a close. Washington, a 5-foot-8 senior guard from Tulsa, Okla., who transferred to Kansas from North Carolina before the 2015-16 season, suffered an ankle injury during KU’s mid-January ...
Despite staying within single digits for 33 of the game's 40 minutes, the Kansas women's basketball team couldn't close out an upset over No. 19 Iowa State in a 69-49 loss Monday night at Hilton Coliseum. The Jayhawks (12-17, 2-16 Big 12) were led by senior Christalah Lyons with 13 points, ...
The Kansas women’s basketball dropped its 9th straight game in a 75-61 home loss to West Virginia on Saturday. Kylee Kopatich and Christalah Lyons were the only players to score in double figures with each putting up 17 points. Austin Richardson added 9 points off of 3-for-7 clip from ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team could not get a win in February. KU dropped a 76-66 decision to TCU at home Wednesday night, suffering its eighth loss in as many games during the month of February. The Jayhawks (12-15, 2-4 Big 12) have not won a game since their 88-79 victory over ...