Kansas Jayhawk Links
We’re kicking things off with some basketball today as SI projects the starting lineup and rotations for the Jayhawks.
The biggest question in KU’s starting lineup is whether Christian Reeves or Paul Mbiya will get the nod at center to open the season. All signs point toward Mbiya being the favorite, as Reeves’ status remains uncertain following his offseason shoulder surgery.
Speaking of basketball, Joel Wagler at Through the Phog, thanks Gary Parrish for some bulletin board material as he left the Jayhawks
off his preseason Top 25+1. I’m not really sure if Parrish counts as something to motivate a Bill Self squad after the last few seasons but content is content I guess.
The Kansas basketball team now has something to motivate them going into the 2026-27. Gary Parrish, the college basketball pundit for CBS Sports, doesn’t think the Jayhawks are one of the top 26 teams in the country. Kind of difficult to believe, right?
Michael Swain has a write up on Kohl Rosario and an area that he has worked to improve since last offseason:
Confidence was a key word for Rosario a season ago. Rosario really worked on his mentality and controlling what he can control. Upon reflection, Rosario said he was thinking too much after his challenging start to the season and it impacted his play.
KU Volleyball coach Matt Ulmer joined the K-Nation to discuss the team’s exhibition win over Creighton (video):
Ulmer spoke with 27 Sports anchor Sydney Clark following the ‘Hawks exhibition win over No. 13 Creighton. He talks the team’s performance in their exhibition matchup against the Blue Jays, the young talent on this year’s squad, and the excitement around his squad.
KSNT also had a writeup on the win:
KU took the first set 25-22, before Creighton took the second set 25-23 and the third 26-24. The ‘Hawks went on to win the fourth set and control the final set of the game, clinching the fifth-set with a 15-7 win.
Kent State recaps the 12th ranked KU women’s soccer win over them:
The Flashes defense came to play in the first 75 minutes of the game, holding KU to no goals. Kansas then scored three goals in a five-minute span and KSU scored in the final three minutes to bring the final score to 3-1 in favor of the Jayhawks.
This may have been linked earlier this week, not sure as I’ve been swamped but reading this caught my eye for all of the wrong reasons:
“Turnovers are technique plus awareness. So, really showing a lot of film, having to show guys where we kind of missed some opportunities, be able to punch a ball out, strip a ball, different things like that. It’s something that we work on every day,” opened McDonald.
Other Links!
The Big 10 didn’t waste any time in addressing the possibility of former NFL guys playing in their conference, it looks like the SEC did the same:
Any player who has declared for the NFL draft and did not withdraw, appeared on an NFL roster or signed a contract with a pro league cannot be on a Big Ten roster, the league announced Tuesday in a statement.
And Lane Kiffin is taking issue with it:
“Over 100 athletes in multiple sports were cleared and said you could go play. That’s a court order,” Kiffin said. “If you think back on all the different court orders of great players that were granted — whether that’s Diego Pavia or, now, Trinidad [Chambliss] that were allowed to play a sixth year, we followed all court orders. I think you get into a really interesting situation as a conference if you’re now saying, ‘Well, we’re not going to follow this court order.’ These kids that a court says can go anywhere, we’re going to say, ‘No you can’t.'”
ESPN also has an update from Rob Manfred and his hopes of having Major League Baseball next summer:
If the sides can negotiate a new CBA before the deadline, baseball will continue to operate as normal. If they cannot, the owners and players could keep negotiating for a new agreement while the business of the sport operates under the rules of the old CBA. The more likely scenario, however, would be for MLB owners to lock out the players right away, shutting down all league business until a new agreement is reached.
Tom Ley wrote about Marge Schottand since I mentioned her last week, I think I’m contractually obligated to link it here:
It’s nearly impossible to relay a single fact about former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott that does not stop an unfamiliar recipient dead in their tracks.
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