UConn and Kansas opened the 2024-25 season as the teams with the best odds of winning the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Those two programs were followed by Duke, Alabama, Houston to round out the top five. UConn currently has the 17th-shortest odds (45-1) to win the tournament,

After another big victory against a highly ranked team, no team can match the season Auburn is having. It was also a big weekend for Houston.

Gulf Coast rock music fans can soon purchase tickets to a performance featuring legendary rock music as the C Spire Concert Series brings Kansas, .38 Special, and the Outlaws to Orange Beach. According to event organizers,

TOPEKA — Apolina Bahati’s decades-long journey to United States citizenship came to a close Monday at a naturalization ceremony in the marble-enveloped rotunda of the Kansas Capitol. Bahati left Congo at age 2 for life as a refugee in Tanzania before deciding as an adult to cross the ocean for a chance at permanence in the United States.

In Topeka, the 30 new citizens came from 18 different nations, and the ceremony gave speakers a chance to stress their own immigrant roots.

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women's team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum marked Kansas’ 164th anniversary of statehood with live music, storytelling, and historical exhibits.

No. 2 Duke (17-2) beat Wake Forest 63-56. No. 3 Iowa St. (17-2) beat UCF 108-83; beat Arizona St. 76-61. No. 4 Alabama (17-3) beat Vanderbilt

Auburn's Tahaad Pettiford was sent to the line, but he only knocked down one, giving Tennessee the ball back with 12 seconds to play. The Vols pushed to their side of the court, and Rick Barnes called a timeout to set up the final play down 53-51.

Last week was an eventful one for Kenny Brooks and the Kentucky Wildcats (17-2, 6-1 SEC), with the team’s nine-game win streak — and its undefeated Southeastern Conference record — coming to an abrupt end in a 61-55 upset loss to unranked Texas A&M on Thursday in College Station.

Fresh off another perfect week, the Iowa State men are now a consensus No. 3 team in the country. While the Cyclones (17-2) remained third in the latest AP Poll, they moved ahead of Alabama to that spot in the Coaches Poll.

Despite a tough double-overtime loss to No. 6 Houston at home, the Kansas Jayhawks climbed one spot in the latest AP Poll, rising from No. 12 to No. 11. The jump in the poll likely owes a lot to Kansas’ earlier win last week—a gritty road victory over TCU.