Former Kansas basketball player Zach Peters will get a fresh start at Arizona. Peters, 6-foot-9 forward, made his transfer public on Sunday after leaving Kansas last fall while dealing with health issues during his freshman season.
K-State sophomore Mitch Meyer had a career-high three RBIs as the Wildcats topped rival Kansas 7-3 and completed a three-game sweep on Sunday in the Sunflower Showdown.
Conner Frankamp, a freshman guard from Wichita, made all four of his three-point attempts during the Jayhawks’ scrimmage against some of their former players Wednesday. One of those former players, guard Tyshawn Taylor, said Frankamp is one of the best shooters he’s seen.
K-State won the second game in a three-game series against Kansas on Saturday and is in first place in the Big 12.
This weekend’s three-game series in Lawrence, which begins on Friday, is one of the most intriguing in the recent history of the Sunflower Showdown: Baseball Edition. K-State, 34-15 overall and 11-7 in the Big 12, is tied atop the conference standings with Oklahoma and West Virginia, while the Jayhawks, 31-18 overall and 12-9 in the Big 12, have won six straight games and sit just a half-game out of first.
Kansas sprinter Diamond Dixon owns a gold medal from the London Olympics for her participation on a relay team. But Sunday, when Dixon helped the Jayhawks women win their first Big 12 championship for outdoor track, the feeling of satisfaction was just as strong.
Kansas officials confirmed Saturday that they were reviewing a report that Ben McLemore’s former AAU coach accepted cash payments from a middleman who was attempting to attract the KU freshman on behalf of sports agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.
The college basketball offseason is getting shorter. The NCAA on Friday passed a proposal that will allow men’s teams to begin practice two weeks earlier than in the past. Programs will now be able to conduct 30 practices in the six weeks before the first regular-season game, while in the past, those practices were folded into a four-week period before the first game.
It may be the most daunting non-conference schedule that KU coach Bill Self has ever maneuvered. Duke. Florida. Georgetown. And a month-long span without a game at Allen Fieldhouse in November and December. Here's a breakdown of the Jayhawks' non-conference slate.
Let’s get this straight: Kansas coach Bill Self says he didn’t intentionally schedule what he calls maybe the toughest nonconference slate of his KU tenure.
When Kansas freshman Ben McLemore declared for the NBA Draft on April 9, he became just the third Jayhawk to leave school after just one season in Lawrence.
Three years after he left school early for the NBA Draft, Aldrich will dress up in a cap and gown later this month and take the traditional walk down the hill with the KU student body and pick up his degree in communications.
The Cincinnati Bengals were impressed enough with former KU player Tanner Hawkinson’s character and intangibles — in addition to his potential on the offensive line — to select him with the 23rd pick in the fifth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday.
In addition to landing Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson, who’ll have to sit out a year, Kansas is slated to add a five-man freshman class in 2013-14, including four players ranked in the top 40 of Rivals’ top 150 rankings. And there are a few big fishes remaining, namely top overall recruit Andrew Wiggins, who is still considering Kansas, Kentucky, Florida State and North Carolina.
The Kansas basketball program has landed Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson on Thursday. Mickelson, a 6-foot-10 sophomore forward, will sit out a year before being eligible to play his final two seasons at KU, beginning with the 2014-15 season.
Despite the roster reconstruction taking shape at Kansas, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: The Jayhawks are still scheduling like a blue-blood program. The latest matchup came out on Thursday, when KU officials confirmed that the Jayhawks will play New Mexico at the Sprint Center on Dec. 14. It’s a one-off game with no return trip, and part of the Jayhawks’ season-ticket package. It’s also added to the list of marquee games for next season.
Andrew Wiggins, a Kansas target and the most highly sought-after prize in the class of 2013, has given little public indication about where he’ll be playing basketball next season. But on Monday, Wiggins, a 6-foot-7 swingman at Huntington Prep (W.Va.), reportedly decided to cancel remaining in-home visits with Kansas, North Carolina and Florida State.
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The most valued document in sports — basketball’s original rules authored by James Naismith — will have a permanent home at the University of Kansas, the school announced Wednesday. The two-page document will be displayed at a new $18 million, three-story center to be built at the northeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse.
Joe Dooley, the Kansas basketball assistant who struck recruiting gold for the Jayhawks on the East Coast, was announced Wednesday as the new head coach at Florida Gulf Coast University, which became a darling of the NCAA Tournament with its “Dunk City” nickname and became the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16.
Due to the impending severe weather in the area, the meet moved indoors to the Douglas County Fairgrounds, making for a different atmosphere for the eight athletes in the field.
Jeff Withey and Travis Releford share KU team MVP award at annual awards banquet.
The Kansas Relays arrive Wednesday for a four-day stay and are likely to be the final relays staged in Memorial Stadium, where they have operated almost annually since their inception in 1923. On Tuesday, the university staged a ceremonial groundbreaking for Rock Chalk Park, a $39 million athletic complex in west Lawrence that will include a new track and field stadium.
Kansas State guard Brittany Chambers and Kansas guard Angel Goodrich were chosen in the WNBA Draft on Monday night. Chambers went 22nd overall to the Los Angeles Sparks and Goodrich, an Oklahoma native, was taken 29th overall by the Tulsa Shock.
Kansas senior tight end Nick Sizemore has been suspended for the first three games of the 2013 season for a violation of team rules, KU football coach Charlie Weis announced in a statement Monday.
When Kansas offensive tackle Tanner Hawkinson needed some advice on preparing for the NFL Draft, he knew just where to turn. Hawkinson had just spent his senior season with KU offensive line coach Tim Grunhard, who had played 11 seasons with the Chiefs.
Former Bishop Miege wide receiver Justin McCay starred in Kansas’ spring game on Saturday at Memorial Stadium, finishing with a game-high eight reception for 99 yards and a touchdown from quarterback Jake Heaps. They were chosen co-offensive MVPs as the KU starters defeated a squad of mostly reserves 34-7.
After his first spring as the Jayhawks’ starting quarterback, junior Jake Heaps is hoping to be part of a group that can help second-year coach Charlie Weis lift Kansas from the depths of a one-win season in 2012.
