With the Big 12 Conference honor already in his trophy case, Kansas junior Marcus Garrett now has his sights set on bigger things. On Monday morning, the Atlanta Tipoff Club named Garrett one of four finalists for the 2020 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award. Given annually to the ...
Even before University of Kansas football coaches secured a verbal commitment from hometown Lawrence High prospect Devin Neal this weekend, the program’s 2021 recruiting class looked to be ahead of schedule. In fact, KU had four high school prospects committed as juniors in 2019, more than a ...
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there hasn't been a lot of positive news as of late. Schools have been forced to move online, sports have been canceled and social gatherings have been limited to 10 or fewer people. For a brief moment, at least in the city of Lawrence, Devin Neal changed ...
Of all of the unexpected sports ramifications of the coronavirus crisis, learning how people define streaks ranks right up there as one of the wildest. Ever since the NCAA decided to shut down March Madness a little more than a week ago — say that out loud until you believe that it’s been ...
Lawrence High’s two-sport standout Devin Neal will be staying home at the next level. Late Friday night, Neal announced his verbal commitment to the University of Kansas via his personal Twitter account. Neal, who graduates in 2021, plans to play both football and baseball for the Jayhawks ...
Some years in college basketball, picking All-America teams can be uncomplicated, even obvious. This bizarre, postseason-less 2019-20 campaign was not one of those years. Sure, Dayton’s Obi Toppin fell into the clear-cut category, but as Friday’s release of the Associated Press All-America ...
Nebraska freshman pitcher Ethan Bradford was sitting alone in his room when he found out that the 2020 season was no more due to the threat of coronavirus. About two hours earlier, Nebraska’s road series with Wichita State had been canceled just before the team was about to get on the bus. ...
Just because the 2020 NCAA Tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus does not mean that Kansas fans have to miss out on their annual bracket fun. I’m sure many of you have seen — or even filled out — the fast-food bracket, the binge-watch bracket or even the 64 greatest moments ...
After teaming up to guide the Kansas basketball team to a 28-3 record and the likely No. 1 overall seed in the canceled NCAA Tournament, Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson on Friday earned second-team Associated Press All-American honors. The Associated Press All-America Team was selected and ...
Years before he joined the Kansas football staff, Brent Dearmon worked behind the scenes at Auburn as an analyst. Those two seasons are a span Dearmon remembers fondly, and it’s not just because that job helped catapult his coaching career. “I was around a guy named Nick Marshall for two ...
During the week that followed the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Tournament, the debate about whether to hang a banner at Allen Fieldhouse raged on among Kansas basketball fans. And, in a way, KU coach Bill Self was right there with them. While Self, during a season-ending conference call ...
Like college coaches in every sport throughout the country, the Kansas football staff quickly figured out in the past week or so that all of its recruiting plans for the immediate future would have to be scrapped. Instead of holding back, the Jayhawks pivoted and innovated. For head coach Les ...
As most of you probably know, the top-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team ended the 2019-20 season on a 16-game winning streak, which is tied for the third longest stretch of consecutive victories in the Self era. The Jayhawks did not get the chance to extend that streak by playing in this ...
There will not be a spring sports season in 2020. Due to the threat of coronavirus, KSHSAA announced on Wednesday that all spring championships, competitions and festivals for the remainder of this school year were canceled. The announcement came one day after Gov. Laura Kelly closed Kansas’ ...
According to multiple reports Wednesday, including one from ESPN’s Josina Anderson, former Kansas cornerback Chris Harris Jr., has agreed to a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Chargers. Harris, who turns 31 in June, enjoyed nine standout seasons in Denver after entering the NFL as an ...
Even though there won’t be an NCAA Tournament in 2020, we thought it might be entertaining — and a decent distraction — to think about the would-be field and some of the teams that could have joined Kansas in the chase for this year’s national championship. Kansas Many people ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team officially has finished the season as the No. 1-ranked team in college basketball. The 28-3 Jayhawks, by a comfortable margin, held onto their top spot in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll of 2019-20 and will enter the 2020-21 season on the brink of ...
The season hadn’t gone as well as Baker baseball coach Ryan Goodwin would have liked, but he believes his team was just about to hit its stride before the threat of coronavirus cut the 2020 campaign short. Baker finished the year at 7-16, but was also coming off a sweep of Grand View ...
College basketball stars such as Kansas point guard Devon Dotson didn’t get to take advantage of the NCAA Tournament as a showcase in front of potential NBA employers this March. And the way everything is trending, future opportunities between now and the 2020 draft — whenever that ...
On Monday, Kansas coach Bill Self said he was still searching for the right way to celebrate and honor the achievements of the 2019-20 Jayhawks. What that means, how it looks and when it will take place remains a mystery, with nearly all of the KU roster back home with their families and ...
