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What we learned from KU’s exhibition loss to Louisville

You wouldn’t know at first from listening to the Kansas players in Wednesday night’s press conference, with Melvin Council Jr. taking responsibility for insufficient defense and Tre White speaking about learning from the “pain,” that the game they had just lost didn’t count. KU coach ...

What did we learn from KU’s loss to Kansas State?

MANHATTAN — The act of covering the Sunflower Showdown in recent years has largely been an exercise in trying to guess which plays will live in infamy. Kansas has now been close enough in three of its last four matchups with Kansas State to actually give some of its individual plays real ...

Evaluating Council’s return and its potential impact on the KU roster

As Kansas coach Bill Self put it last week before cementing Melvin Council Jr.’s return, the addition of one more player beyond Tre White — occupying the Jayhawks’ 15th roster spot — could yield “a crowded house in many ways.” But, he added, “Whatever makes the team better, I ...

What did we learn from KU’s win over Middle Tennessee?

As impressive as Kansas’ record-breaking yardage total in Saturday's 55-0 win over Middle Tennessee may have been — it was 706 yards, blowing away the program-record 651 against Vanderbilt in 1985 — the shutout might have been an even more impressive feat. KU hasn’t had a lot of ...

How White’s return could impact KU

Pretty much any article about Tre White in the weeks ahead is going to have to contain the same set of extremely significant caveats. White’s injunction against the NCAA only makes him eligible until such time as his lawsuit goes to trial. In the interim, the NCAA is pursuing both an ...

3 games to circle on KU women’s basketball’s Big 12 schedule

The Kansas women’s basketball team will look to take a step forward in Big 12 Conference play this season after its 8-10 record yielded an 11th-place finish last year. The Jayhawks lost a number of games by narrow margins against top teams that could have altered the trajectory of their ...