Kansas Jayhawk News
KU Athletics has a quick preview on the trip to Arizona this week.
For the first time in 59 years, the Kansas Jayhawks will face the Arizona Wildcats when they travel to Tucson on Saturday for a matinee
matchup. Kickoff at Arizona Stadium is slated for 2:30 p.m., CT on ESPN2 with Mike Monaco (Play-by-Play), Kirk Morrison (Analyst) and Dawn Davenport (Sideline) on the call.
Sports Illustrated also has some information on Saturday’s game.
The Jayhawks’ defense is a determined unit ranked 11th in the Big 12. Against Texas Tech and Kansas State, they gave up a combined 84 points, but have gotten back on track with their recent game against Oklahoma State, yielding just 21 points in a win.
Moving on to basketball, the UDK recaps the game against Green Bay.
Peterson scored 18 points in the first half on 6-for-10, capped by a tough fallaway jumper over two defenders with two seconds to go, and got plenty of help from Flory Bidunga, who notched a career-high 23 points on 9-for-11 shooting from the floor.
This story’s a couple days old but I don’t believe it has been linked yet about one of the disappointing additions to the roster so far this season.
Of those three, Council and White have quickly found their niches with the Jayhawks in the starting lineup, but the same cannot be said for Dawson. In KU’s two exhibition contests against Louisville and Fort Hays State, he combined to play just 20 minutes total, making 1-of-2 field goal attempts for two points and turning the ball over twice.
Here’s some information on UNC as the Jayhawks prepare to face them in our first top 25 matchup of the season.
The Jayhawks were outrebounded 47-34 despite having the height advantage over Louisville. Also of note, Louisville also had 39 attempts. That should be something to watch out for when UNC plays Kansas on Friday night.
Other Links!
Yahoo has their picks for player of the year, coach of the year, and national champions. Only one mention for Kansas, seems good when people are overlooking a pissed off Bill Self team.
I’m putting this together on Tuesday and before the CFP committee releases their first ranking of the season (which is dumb but whatever). Lets see how ESPN’s Bubble Watch compares to what gets released.
ESPN on Auburn firing Hugh Freeze after two seasons.
Speaking of Auburn joining the SEC fad of firing their own questionable hires. Front Office Sports looks at the SEC and the firings that have taken place.
Freeze was the fourth head coach in the SEC to lose his job mid-season—a quarter of the SEC’s teams have fired their coaches so far this year. Combined, their contract buyouts come to almost $100 million—accounting for the majority of power conference buyouts this season.
Have to admit, I’m a bit fascinated by all of the firings we’ve seen this season. CBS has a good tracker here.
In non-sports stuff, I found this post about Bluesky and some of the goals of the app and features to be interesting.
One last non-sports link today discussing what the conversation around SNAP benefits consistently misses when politicians are using it to score points against each other.
QOTD: As I said up above, the firing of coaches this year has me a bit intrigued in both the thinking behind why the coach was hired in the first place and what eventually gets them shown the door. Hubert Davis may be the basketball version of this in a few months, especially if Kansas can get that ball rolling with a convincing win on Friday. Anyway, to the question- out of all the coaches fired from P4 conferences this fall, do you find any of them irrational or unjustified?
