Baseball

What’s next for KU baseball, Part 2: A look at the JUCO class

Just as Kansas fans familiarized themselves with a whole new group of Jayhawks at the start of the 2025 season — which proved to be a rewarding pursuit, given how successful the fresh group of recruits ultimately was — they will have to do the same ahead of 2026. The extent to which this ...

What’s next for KU baseball, Part 1: Who can come back?

Updated 2:28 p.m. Monday, June 2: Kansas coach Dan Fitzgerald’s first two seasons at the helm suggested incremental progress each year, but in 2025 the Jayhawks took a significant leap forward. Relying on a team essentially built from scratch after the 2024 MLB Draft derailed some of KU’s ...

Home-run hitter Hauge thankful for lone year with Jayhawks

Fayetteville, Ark. — When Jackson Hauge entered the portal following a severe concussion, not everyone believed he could help a team the way he ultimately did the 2025 Kansas Jayhawks. “I had one guy telling me to come help his team out,” Hauge said, “and I had another guy on the other ...

KU baseball eliminated from postseason with 4-3 loss to NDSU

Fayetteville, Ark. — A memorable season for the Kansas baseball team concluded with a forgettable trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks left Baum-Walker Stadium without a postseason win, as they fell 4-3 to fourth-seeded North Dakota State (21-33) on Saturday afternoon. With the Bison ...

KU will face North Dakota State in elimination game Saturday

Fayetteville, Ark. — The Kansas baseball team has been accustomed to making comebacks all season, but the Jayhawks will now have to pull off their biggest one yet if they want to escape the Fayetteville Regional at Baum-Walker Stadium. After Friday night’s 11-4 loss to Creighton, in which ...

KU pitching struggles in loss to Creighton to open NCAA Tournament

Fayetteville, Ark. — The Kansas baseball team has come from behind to win on 26 occasions this season, accounting for a solid 60% of its overall win total on the year. The Jayhawks had never come back from seven runs down, though, and Creighton imposed that big a deficit on KU in the span of ...

KU looks to start regional strong against Creighton

Updated 12:59 p.m. Thursday, May 29: The Kansas baseball team will get its first taste of NCAA regional baseball since 2014 as KU, a No. 2 seed, takes on No. 3 seed Creighton at 7 p.m. on Friday at Baum-Walker Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The postseason berth is the result of a ...