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Who needs a go-to scorer? Jayhawks touting balance this season

As the Kansas basketball team strives in the months ahead to replicate the kind of success it had in the pandemic shortened 2019-20 season, the path to victories — and the math to get there — will look different. More likely than not, the Jayhawks will take an egalitarian approach to ...

It’s time for Christian Braun to fire away from 3-point range

Only time will tell for certain which member of the 2020-21 Kansas basketball team will become the Jayhawks’ go-to 3-point shooter. But we don’t need to see one minute of Late Night or actual games to know who it should be. One could argue pretty easily that Christian Braun even took on ...

Early signs indicate KU might need to embrace its ground game

No one expected the Kansas offense to feature an elite passing attack when college football returned. But the first weekend of Big 12 games also magnified how far behind the rest of the league the Jayhawks might be in that category in 2020. While Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech posted the top ...

Andrew Parchment bluntly gives himself an F after frustrating performance

Andrew Parchment made it unmistakably clear that the Kansas football team’s second home loss to Coastal Carolina in as many years was unacceptable. And the senior receiver did so by pointing the finger at himself. After the Jayhawks’ offense turned the ball over three times in the first ...