Women's Basketball

SFA coach a top candidate for KU women’s basketball position

Brandon Schneider, Stephen F. Austin University’s women’s basketball coach, has emerged as a leading candidate to fill the vacancy at Kansas University created when Bonnie Henrickson was fired.Schneider is in his fifth year at the Southland Conference school in Nacogdoches, Texas. Before ...

Column: Older Turgeon right fit for KU women

The more I learn about Iowa Western Community College basketball coach Jim Turgeon, the more I think he is the right fit to succeed Bonnie Henrickson to lead Kansas University’s women’s basketball program.A pair of telephone conversations I had with women who played for him in junior ...

WBCA honors KU’s Gardner

Kansas University senior women’s basketball forward Chelsea Gardner earned honorable mention to the 2015 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-America team, it was announced Saturday.A first-team All-Big 12 pick and Associate Press honorable mention All-American, Gardner averaged 16.8 ...

Column: Jayhawks in no hurry for hiring women’s coach

Sheahon Zenger wants to get it right, even if that means the naming of Kansas University’s next women’s basketball coach might not happen for another fortnight, even longer.Zenger and his chief lieutenant in the search, senior women’s sports administrator Debbie Van Saun, have confidence ...

Burnett gains Missouri Sports Legend honor

Former Kansas University women’s basketball player Cheryl Burnett will be honored as a Missouri Sports Legend by the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Saturday at the Ramada Oasis Convention Center in Springfield, Missouri, as part of the Women in Sports Luncheon.Burnett, who was a four-year ...

Geno Auriemma tops this KU wish list

The Kansas University athletic department is in the beginning stages of another coaching search, this time for a women’s basketball coach.As with any fantasy GM and/or real athletic director, I have a list of five names of potential candidates in my pocket. They range from the best in the ...

Bonnie Henrickson out as KU women’s basketball coach

After enduring season after season of mostly sub-par play in the ultra-competitive Big 12 Conference, Kansas University athletic director Sheahon Zenger decided enough was enough and on Monday morning fired women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson.“At the end of the day, she gave her best ...

K-State hands KU women first-round Big 12 loss

Dallas ? Kansas University rallied from a 13-point first-half deficit to take a late lead, but Kansas State came up big down the stretch for a 57-49 victory Friday night in the first round of the Big 12 women’s basketball tournament.KU went on a 26-8 run and claimed a 46-44 lead on a ...