{"id":372965,"date":"2026-10-14T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:56:48","slug":"no-17-kansas-travels-to-manhattan-for-dillons-sunflower-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372965\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 17 Kansas Travels to Manhattan for Dillons Sunflower Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAWRENCE, Kan. &#8211; No. 17 Kansas (11-4) will travel to Manhattan on Thursday night for the Dillon&#8217;s Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State (9-5). First serve from Morgan Family Arena is set for 6:30 p.m. CT, and the match can be seen on ESPN+.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Jayhawks won their lone match last week, defeating UCF in four sets on Sunday for their fourth Big 12 win of the season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Wildcats enter Thursday on a five-match skid, having last won on September 24 against UCF. Kansas State fell to Iowa State and Colorado last week, in 3-0 and 3-2 matches respectively.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThursday will mark the first meeting of the season between the two programs, with the Wildcats leading the all-time series 58-50. Kansas won the last meeting on November 15 last season in a sweep, splitting the 2025 series.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollowing Thursday, the Jayhawks will return home to play No. 8 Arizona State (13-3) on Sunday, Oct. 18 inside of historic Allen Fieldhouse. First Serve between the Jayhawks and Sun Devils is set for 12 p.m. CT, and the match can be seen on ESPN.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAWRENCE, Kan. &#8211; No. 17 Kansas (11-4) will travel to Manhattan on Thursday night for the Dillon&#8217;s Sunflower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-372965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}