Baseball

Year in review, Part 3: A look ahead to 2024

The year 2023 featured a conference championship in men’s basketball, a Women’s National Invitation Tournament title in women’s basketball, broken records in women’s golf, a football bowl victory and plenty more. What will 2024 have in store? As usual, the Kansas athletic department ...

KU baseball’s Cole Elvis signs with Minnesota Twins

The Kansas baseball team didn't earn any selections in the draft, but has now had two players sign with MLB teams since it concluded. KU announced Tuesday that catcher and first baseman Cole Elvis, who started every game for the Jayhawks in 2023 after four seasons at Cal, has signed a contract ...

KU’s Baumgartner signs with Rockies as undrafted free agent

Missouri will have to wait a little longer to certify its next lawyer. Kansas right-handed pitcher Collin Baumgartner has been signed as an undrafted free agent by the Colorado Rockies after one season in Lawrence, KU announced in a press release Wednesday. Baumgartner, who already has an ...

14-team Big 12 will yield one odd year of scheduling

The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will ...

KU baseball falls to TCU’s offensive flurry in Big 12 tournament

Kansas’ run at the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament isn’t quite over yet, but it sustained a series of punishing blows in the sixth inning Thursday night. An inning that began with small ball for TCU — a single to first base, a walk, a soft-hit ball up the middle to score a run and ...