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What we learned from KU’s win over West Virginia

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Kansas defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald said in the lead-up to KU’s matchup with West Virginia that if his defensive players were out of their gaps, they were going to be hearing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” quite a bit. As it turned out, with KU limiting WVU to ...

What we learned from KU’s loss to UCF

For as much as D.K. McDonald’s defense has improved this season, it just can’t seem to find the stops it needs in the most important moments. Whatever momentum it may have accumulated, however much it may have shut down an opposing team’s key players up to a particular point, that just ...

What we learned from KU’s loss to TCU

FORT WORTH, Texas — The final word in Saturday’s postgame media availability, after one of the more dispiriting losses of Lance Leipold’s tenure as head coach, went to junior cornerback Jalen Todd. Todd was asked about KU’s recurring issue of losing games in which it had led at ...

What we learned from KU’s win over Baylor

After watching BYU deploy trick plays to great effect in its impressive victory over Notre Dame on Oct. 17, Kansas coach Lance Leipold went back to work the following day with a message to his coaches: “You know, let’s not be afraid to dial a few up.” Associate head coach Andy Kotelnicki ...

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 ...