If you view a college athletic conference primarily as a bundle of brand equity and disparate assets to be auctioned off to the highest media-rights bidder, you probably love the direction the current conference-realignment cycle seems to be headed. If you place a certain emphasis on regional ...

In a world of increasingly outlandish conference realignment rumors — many of which, indeed, seem totally ridiculous until they come to fruition — the latest bit of gossip to take the nation by storm has a refreshing familiarity. The University of Colorado has been floated, discussed and ...

There are a dozen different reasons to pay attention to this Kansas women’s basketball team beyond its WNIT championship, which they won with a hard-fought 66-59 triumph over Columbia on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. And make no mistake about it, with nearly everyone back and reinforcements ...

One of the hardest things to do in sports is to play hard in a game they tell you doesn’t matter. Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse, it was clear that no one told the Kansas women’s basketball team that the WNIT didn’t matter, and the Jayhawks rolled past Missouri, 75-47 in the second ...

I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes. But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. A damn good Arkansas ...

Des Moines, Iowa — The general consensus of opinion among the Jayhawks is that the biggest difference between the way assistant coach Norm Roberts manages a game on the bench and the way head coach Bill Self does it is that Self is much louder and Roberts is much calmer. On Thursday ...