Kansas Jayhawks Links
Guard S’mya Nichols is named to the “Big 12 Starting Five” for the second week in a row following a 2 game stretch where she averaged 19 points per game and led the Jayhawks to two come from behind victories.
After leading Kansas to a 2-0 record with a pair of come-from-behind road wins, junior guard S’Mya Nichols has been named to the Big 12 Starting Five for week five of the 2025-26 season.
And the game recap of the women’s team win over Missouri State.
KU women’s swim and dive team got a victory
over Houston. (Anyone ever been to a swim meet?)
“Dual meets don’t get much more fun than that,” said Kansas head coach Clark Campbell. “We had several really good events, but had to overcome a lot of adversity as well. The meet was far from perfect and the team never stopped attacking. We’re so proud of our athletes and will use this as a confidence enhancer going into the championship season.”
Somewhat old news but based on Monday’s conversation, I had to include it because it’s from an MSN link. KU moves up a spot in AP poll.
Something to keep an eye on as the season progresses, these Jayhawks seem to be getting to the line quite a bit more than we’ve seen in recent seasons. As we all know, getting to the line is every bit as important as shooting a high percentage from the charity stripe.
The Jayhawks are getting to the line more often than any KU team in nearly a decade. Through 10 games, KU is averaging 21.3 free throws a game. Not since the days of Frank Mason and Devonte Graham in 2016-17 has Kansas made it to the line at such a pace. That team got to the line 21.9 times per contest.
Coach Self on those questioning Peterson and his injury:
“I think it frustrates him,” Self said about the speculation. “It’s the world we live in, in today’s time, though. It’s BS, though. That kid’s over there getting four treatments a day for 45 minutes every treatment. That kid spends more time shooting on his own than anybody else maybe that I ever coached. That kid wants to be out there so bad.”
The campus is losing a few parking lots as the next phase of construction begins around the stadium:
Lots 92, 94 and 97, all located directly east of the stadium and serving as yellow lots used for overflow housing parking and day parking, will permanently close. All vehicles remaining in the lots after Dec. 15 will be towed, according to the email.
Other Links!
Dozens of athletic directors will gather in Las Vegas over the next few days for an annual conference. They had hoped to be raising toasts to the U.S. House of Representatives. But for the second time in three months, House members balked last week at voting on a bill that would give the NCAA protection from antitrust lawsuits and employment threats. So instead, they will be greeted by one of the Strip’s specialties: the cold-slap realization of needing a better plan.
Bracketology? Why not, it is December already. Lunardi has a KU as a 4 seed, thoughts?
Have Vanderbilt and Indiana brought a new era of parity to college football? (this is the weekly must read)
But Lea had been thinking about a new approach, something he had floated in bits and pieces to his athletic director, Candice Storey Lee. If Bama and Georgia could spend big on their third-stringers, couldn’t Vandy pay those same guys to be starters?
Coaching carousel news and ESPN grading the hires. Penn State gets an A- for Matt Campbell and I don’t get that one bit.
Defector on the football playoff and selection committee.
It is once again time to get mad about a College Football Playoff bracket. Every year ESPN and its TV show, made by a committee that talks ball while on break from planning the Human Instrumentality Project, design a 12-team playoff seemingly beholden to no rules, no standards, nothing that could pin them down with any consistency beyond a love for good Q ratings. It doesn’t particularly matter what specifically has people mad this year, as it always boils down to the same thing: There are no clear guidelines to determine who does or doesn’t get into the playoff, and therefore they can just kinda make it up as they feel like it.
Last link is the UDK on the new season of Stranger Things.
The hit Netflix series “Stranger Things” debuted the first volume of its fifth and final season on Nov. 28, with a 85% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The release contained four of the season’s eight episodes, leaving fans with multiple cliffhangers leading up to the next volume.
QOTD: Stranger Things was a huge phenomenon when it debuted but this new season kind of came out of nowhere for me. I don’t even see our high school kids talking about it anymore. Are we past the days of a TV/streaming show being the talk of the internet?
