Baseball

KU baseball adds experienced transfer with familiar surname

The Kansas baseball team continued to bolster its 2024 transfer class by adding an experienced infielder from the Big Ten Conference for his final year of eligibility. Brady Counsell, the son of longtime Milwaukee Brewers and current Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell, announced his ...

Recapping the latest transfers to KU baseball

With the MLB Draft a month away, much remains to be determined about the 2025 Kansas baseball roster. The Jayhawks have to evaluate which of their current players with remaining eligibility, as well as their planned arrivals from the high school and junior-college ranks, will get selected in ...

What’s next for KU baseball?

Even without getting selected for Monday’s NCAA Tournament, the Kansas baseball team put together a 31-23 record that serves as a clear indication of the progress the Jayhawks have made in two years under Dan Fitzgerald. “We have moved things in such an awesome direction,” Fitzgerald ...

KU baseball misses key opportunity in 7-5 loss to top-seeded Oklahoma

Oklahoma starter Kyson Witherspoon’s pitch count kept climbing in the fourth inning as he walked one Jayhawk after another. Already leading 4-2 thanks to five uncharacteristic early errors by the conference-champion Sooners, Kansas had the bases loaded with just one out and a golden chance to ...

KU baseball draws top-seeded Oklahoma for next Big 12 tournament game

With an unexpected and welcome day of rest in the rearview mirror, the Kansas baseball team will face top-seeded Oklahoma in its second game of the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. The Jayhawks benefited from TCU’s upset victory over No. 4 West Virginia on ...

KU takes control in ninth inning to advance past K-State in Big 12 tournament

After blowing back-to-back ninth-inning leads in its series against Texas over the weekend, the Kansas baseball team wasn’t going to let another one slip away on Tuesday morning. Hard-throwing KU closer Hunter Cranton struck out consecutive Kansas State batters, then got the previously ...