Kansas senior Angel Goodrich will be headed back to Oklahoma — the state where she won three 3A state titles at Sequoyah High School — as the 29th overall pick by the Tulsa Shock in the third round of the 2013 WNBA Draft. It will be a quick turnaround for Goodrich from college basketball to [...]
Carolyn Davis will step onto the court today in the moments before the most important game of her life, knowing that this is where her path was leading all along, to this Sweet 16 matchup with Notre Dame. Whether it is a destination or just another stop on the road will be determined today. Most [...]
Norfolk, Va. — The University of Kansas is the only school to have its men’s and women’s basketball teams make their separate ways to the Sweet Sixteen in the past two seasons. And while most Kansas basketball fans made tentative plans for a trip to Atlanta, Bonnie Henrickson’s team tentatively practiced for a trip that easily [...]
The Kansas Jayhawks have made history as only the second 12 seed to ever make the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. Last season the Jayhawks made their way to the Des Moines regional semifinals, where they fell to the Tennessee Lady Volunteers 84-73. Kansas will play will play its second [...]
Senior forward Carolyn Davis will experience her first taste of Sweet 16 action on Sunday against Notre Dame in Norfolk, Va., after missing last season’s run because of a torn ACL. This year, it’s been sophomore guard Natalie Knight that has had to watch and cheer her teammates on from the bench throughout March. Knight [...]
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson had not given up hope as of Thursday before an afternoon practice. But after scouting her team’s next opponent for a couple days, Henrickson still had not found a weak spot in the Notre Dame Irish, led by dynamic senior guard Skylar Diggins. “I haven’t been through everything,” Henrickson said, “but, [...]
Monica Engelman sat at the press conference inside Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday afternoon flanked by her two fellow senior teammates, 5-foot-4 guard Angel Goodrich on her right and 6-foot-3 forward Carolyn Davis on her left. About 17 hours earlier in Boulder, Colo., Engelman dropped a career-high 27 points on the No. 4-seed South Carolina Gamecocks, [...]
For just the second time in the NCAA women’s bracket history, a 12th-seeded team reaches the Sweet 16. The Kansas Jayhawks once again surprised the basketball world when they knocked off the No. 4 seeded South Carolina Gamecocks 75-69. Kansas joined the 1996 San Francisco Lady Dons as the only No. 12 seeds to be [...]
“Pure joy,” Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said with a perfectly simple way to describe the emotion for Kansas after a 75-69 victory over South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Senior guard Angel Goodrich jumped into the passing lane of South Carolina guard Ieasia Walker’s inbound pass from the half-court side line [...]
This game was expected to be a defensive battle by most, but the first half turned into an offensive shootout. Senior guard Monica Engelman has led the way for the Jayhawks with 18 points on shooting 7-for-12 from the field and 2-for-3 from behind the arc.Engelman has been aggressive on offense by attacking the paint. [...]
Coming into the game against the No. 5-seed Colorado Buffaloes, the Kansas Jayhawks weren’t suppose to be there. They weren’t supposed to be in the NCAA tournament. Many assumed they would be NIT-bound. But the No. 12 seeded Jayhawks didn’t care what their critics said about their place in the postseason. They decided to roll [...]
Senior Forward Carolyn Davis has admitted there were times late this season when doubt entered her mind. After a string of four straight losses against the Big 12, Davis wondered if the Jayhawks really had a shot at making the NCAA tournament. “We lost a lot of games down the stretch,” Davis said. So, when [...]
The No. 12 seeded Kansas women’s basketball team spent its snowy Saturday evening in Boulder, Colo. knocking out No. 5 seeded Colorado of the NCAA tournament. Kansas defeated Colorado 67-52 with five players scoring in double-digits. The victory is the Jayhawks’ third NCAA tournament victory in the past two season and they are now 19-13 [...]
The Kansas Jayhawks will be making a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament on Saturday. The Jayhawks will match up with their former Big 12 rivals Colorado in Boulder, Colo. Kansas women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson said after her team was eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament last week, that she thought her team [...]
Now, there is nothing to do but wait for the Kansas women after a 77-62 loss to Iowa State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament on Saturday in Dallas. The Jayhawks think they have high-enough quality wins to be included in the NCAA tournament when the selection committee makes the decision next week, [...]
There is nothing to do now but wait for the Kansas women after a 77-62 loss to Iowa State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament in Dallas. The Jayhawks believe they have high enough quality wins to be included in the NCAA tournament when the selection committee makes the decision nine days from [...]
