On a day when just about nothing bounced her way, Kylee Kopatich needed the extra second.The junior, an 82-plus percent free-throw shooter all three years at Kansas, stood at the line for what should have been automatic points. She shot the first and clapped in frustration as it clanked off the ...
The "four" on the box score jumped out to Brandon Schneider.Following KU's 66-49 loss to Nebraska, the team's first defeat of the season, the KU coach sat at a table in the Allen Fieldhouse media room for the post-game press conference. Wearing a grimace that often matched his on-court demeanor ...
Kansas junior guard Kylee Kopatich wrote another chapter in what has been a breakout season for the Olathe native, as she scored 18 of her 26 points in the second half to lift the Jayhawks to a 71-60 victory over Arkansas on Sunday in the Big 12/SEC Challenge at Allen Fieldhouse.The new ...
UMKC coach Jacie Hoyt had one goal on Wednesday. She’d seen enough of KU’s Kylee Kopatich on film and didn’t want the Kangaroos to be the latest add-on to her highlight tape.“She’s a great player when she gets in a rhythm,” said Hoyt after KU’s 63-48 win over UMKC. “If we got ...
Rice coach Tina Langley’s box score was all marked up as she came to the postgame press conference.The rebounding totals were circled in black permanent marker, as were the five turnovers committed by guard Erica Ogwumike. On the KU side, the names of three players — KU’s top three ...
When Kylee Kopatich saw her opponent on Wednesday, her ever-present smile got a little wider.“That’s like money for me,” said Kopatich following the Jayhawks' 81-49 demolition of Delaware State in Allen Fieldhouse.Specifically, Kopatich referred to the various zone defenses deployed by ...
The sound of the final buzzer following KU’s 81-75 win over Yale brought joy to many of the 1,918 fans in Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday. Six-year-old Cole Schneider was not one of them. Cole, son of KU coach Brandon Schneider, was the first person to greet his father after the game. The younger ...
After a strong first quarter sparked the Kansas women's basketball team to an 18-point victory over Campbell in the Jayhawks' season opener on Sunday, Brandon Schneider's squad used a big second quarter to pull away from Texas Southern in a 72-37 win over the Tigers on Wednesday in Allen ...
