KU Women’s Basketball

Three storylines to watch as KU women’s basketball heads off to Europe

Looking to build on the two most successful seasons of head coach Brandon Schneider’s tenure by far, the Kansas women’s basketball team will get an early start in the coming days on its next campaign. The Jayhawks are embarking on an 11-day jaunt through the Mediterranean from Sunday ...

14-team Big 12 will yield one odd year of scheduling

The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will ...

Star recruit Nichols unbothered by pressure as she arrives at KU

More than four years ago, Kansas women’s basketball found itself mired in a string of losing seasons, and head coach Brandon Schneider offered a scholarship to a promising player from Overland Park who wasn’t even in high school yet. Now, the Jayhawks have reached the NCAA Tournament and ...

Dramatic Roundball Classic ends in sudden-death free-throw contest

The two most exhilarating moments of Thursday night’s Rock Chalk Roundball Classic at Free State High School came immediately before and after the final whistle. First, four of the six beneficiaries of the charity basketball game — the 15th annual installment of the event, founded by ...