Breaking down Kansas athletics legal fees: What KU paid for in NCAA infractions defense

LAWRENCE – Kansas athletics’ outside legal fees in its NCAA infractions case, which was resolved in 2023 and concerned its men’s basketball and football programs, cost the department more than $10 million. Not all of that was spent on legal advice. From an estimate from the KU public records office this past December, KU amassed an average of about $2.2 million paid to attorneys related to the case across each of the past five fiscal years. That includes about $70,000 during the current fiscal year. The endeavor, which saw the...