Kansas Women’s Basketball (7-10, 3-8 Big 12) continues their two-game road trip this week as they head to Manhattan for the Dillons Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State.
LAWRENCE, Kan. – No. 23/24 Kansas (15-7, 9-5) takes a three-game winning streak into the Dillons Sunflower Showdown at Kansas State (5-17, 1-12) Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. on Big 12 NOW on ESPN+.
Kansas is coming off a 64-50 win at Iowa State on Feb. 13. The Jayhawks have won three straight and four of its last five outings. Kansas State is looking to end a 12-game losing skid after its 67-60 loss at Oklahoma State Feb. 13.
Kansas leads the overall series with Kansas State, 200-94, and has won 12 of the last 13 matchups, including a 74-51 win on Feb. 2, 2021, in Allen Fieldhouse. Since Feb. 12, 1994, Kansas has won 61 of the last 67 meetings with K-State. This series started in 1907 and Kansas is 79-47 in Manhattan meetings, including 27-5 in Bramlage Coliseum.
Kansas redshirt-freshman Jalen Wilson has been named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, the conference announced Monday. The weekly award is the first for Wilson and is selected by a media panel.
Kansas alum Bryce Hoppel made history again on Saturday, breaking the American Record in the 1,000 meters at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Freshman Mia Vuksic tied a school record for 3-pointers made in a game with eight Saturday at Kansas State, but Kansas fell to its in-state foe 77-66 at Bramlage Coliseum in the final edition of the 2020-21 Dillons Sunflower Showdown.
Vuksic, a freshman from Sibenik, Croatia, finished 8-of-14 from deep to finish with a career-high 24 points. The eight makes from long distance tie Charisse Sampson (1996) for the school record. The 14 attempts also tied a school record.
Vuksic was lights out in the first half from deep, knocking down four 3-pointers. She had never hit more than three 3-pointers in a game prior to Saturday. Vuksic was 3-of-4 from deep in the first quarter and she was 4-of-6 by half. Her hot hand from deep kept the Jayhawks within reach in the game’s first 20 minutes.