University of Kansas

Feng "Franklin" Tao, a tenured chemistry professor at the University of Kansas, was the first defendant among about two dozen academics charged under the Justice Department's since-disbanded program.

Fans were loud and elated during the early minutes of a watch party at Allen Fieldhouse, but quieted as the North Carolina Tar Heels stormed to a 15-point first half lead. “Then in the second half. It was insane,” one fan said.

Kansas staged a 16-point comeback, the largest in NCAA championship history, to best North Carolina in New Orleans.

Kansas ripped away from Villanova from the jump. Jayhawk fans reveled in the chance to play North Carolina on Monday for the NCAA men's basketball championship.

Franklin Tao was arrested under the Trump-era China initiative, a federal program designed to catch spies sharing American intellectual property and secrets with China. In opening statements, prosecutors characterized Tao as deceptive and secretive about his work with Fuzhou University in China.

It’s the first time the team is headed to the Final Four since 2018, and an off-season transfer was the final piece to the Jayhawks’ success.

Feng Tao, a chemistry professor, has denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.

As the University of Kansas prepares to open the men's basketball season Thanksgiving Day, it has paid over a million dollars defending the storied program against very serious NCAA violations.

Wednesday was the deadline for faculty chairs to submit documentation indicating how their fall classes will comply with KU’s mandate that classes be taught in-person this fall.

KU's settlement in former head football coach David Beaty's federal lawsuit is not nearly the end of the problems for Kansas Athletics.