​Kansas’s Caroline Bien (14) hits the ball during the second round of the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Volleyball Championship at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Lawrence, Kan. | Jesse Bruner/Special to The Capital-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Kansas Jayhawks NewsJeff Borzello updates his Way Too Early Top 25 and has the Jayhawks at #23 for the upcoming basketball season:He’s strong, he’s physical, he’s a menace in transition, he has great positional size — and he creates matchup problems because of his point-forward and playmaking ability. Coach Bill Self will give him every chance to carry the Kansas offense.Through the Phog has a little write up about Davion Adkins and with comments from Norm Roberts added:“He is a typical Kansas forward that we would take, and we would say, ‘watch, by the end of his Sophomore year, he’s a heck of a player,’ and he’s a junior and he’s a really good player. That’s what he’s going to be because he’s got great upside.”Oh, the joys of modern college basketball. The piece does go on to remind us of the real challenge with a guy like Adkins:However, none of this is necessarily a bad thing; not every player is bound for the one-and-done route. The biggest task for the Jayhawks is to now entice Adkins to remain with the program past this season and become what Roberts believes he can. In the at-times transactional NCAA, that may be easier said than done.Apparently Eli Drinkwitz had some “funny” things to say about the state of Kansas. THIS RIVALRY IS HEATING BACK UP!Remember, this was a once-amazing rivalry that went dormant for 14 years and is now finally back. A lot has changed in those 14 years and it might not be quite as easy as you think for fans on either side to just rev things back up. So, take all the extra encouragement you can get to get riled up.Joe Coles at Deseret News has a preview up on the football team and concludes with this:While Leipold is far from the hot seat, his sixth year represents a vital turning point for his tenure. Kansas must get at least back to bowl eligibility, and while pundits don’t have the Jayhawks anywhere close to the top of the conference, even a six- or seven-win season would get Kansas back on the right track.I guess that shouldn’t disappoint me like it did when I first read it. We are Kansas football and it wasn’t that long ago that all we really wanted was to care enough to get mad at particular decisions or situations. We just wanted something to matter. I’m hoping to pleasantly surprised but I’m preparing for nothing to matter after a few weeks. Rock Chalk!In case you missed it, former KU volleyball coach Ray Bechard is going into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame and WIBW has a nice story on his career:Then the superintendent asked:“Hey, we’re in a bind with our high school volleyball situation. Would you help us out?”Bechard’s answer came quickly.“And I said, that’d be a big