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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The No. 6-ranked Kansas Jayhawks appeared to follow their head coach’s request to “embrace the atmosphere” and “love” playing in hostile Mizzou Arena in claiming a 95-67 victory over the previously undefeated MU Tigers in the latest edition of Border War.

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The Border War will have to wait a little big longer before it resumes. Blame Missouri.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Kansas men’s basketball team has opened a difficult four-game stretch of nonconference games in the best possible way.

“John Hadl had a generational impact on Kansas football,” Jayhawks athletic director Travis Goff said. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime Jayhawk student-athlete, a coach and mentor.”

After winning two of three games against Power Five competition in the Bahamas over Thanksgiving week, the Kansas Jayhawks made a triumphant return to Allen Fieldhouse on Monday, topping mid-major Texas Southern 87-55.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — The Kansas State football team is off to bigger and better things.

After a pair of exciting, nailbiting wins over North Carolina State and Wisconsin at the 2022 Battle 4 Atlantis, the No. 3-ranked Kansas Jayhawks fell to No. 22 Tennessee, 64-50, in the event final on Friday night at the Atlantis resort’s Imperial Ballroom in Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Kansas men’s basketball, which has won 17 consecutive games dating back to the 2021-22 NCAA title campaign, will play for another championship — at the Battle 4 Atlantis — on Friday.

The No. 3-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team celebrated head coach Bill Self’s return to the bench on game day by upending unranked North Carolina State, 80-74, in a first-round Battle 4 Atlantis game on Wednesday at Imperial Arena in the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.

Leipold has engineered a stark turnaround for the Jayhawks in his second season with the program.