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Busch ‘numb’ as yet another Cup win slips away in Kansas

Kyle Busch lost control of his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and, with it, a chance to contend for the victory at Kansas Speedway. Busch led the Hollywood Casino 400 with 32 laps to go when he closed on NASCAR Cup Series playoff contender Chase …

Kyle Busch lost control of his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and, with it, a chance to contend for the victory at Kansas Speedway.

Busch led the Hollywood Casino 400 with 32 laps to go when he closed on NASCAR Cup Series playoff contender Chase Briscoe through Turn 2. At the exit of the corner, Busch stayed with the high lane as his path to the outside of Briscoe but got loose, hit the wall, and then spun down the backstretch.

 

The No. 14 was running 26th and trying to stay on the lead lap. Busch lost the lead but stayed inside the top 10 at the time of the caution freezing the field, but he never led again and fell to a 19th-place finish.

“[I was] just running ten-tenths all the time, trying to make up speed and cover the [No.] 1 car and make sure I could stay ahead of him,” Busch said of the incident. “The [No.] 14 turned down the hill in order to get clear air from the guy in front of him, so I went to his outside and plugged a hole and then just air… For some reason, I just felt nothing off the corner, and I hadn’t really had that like that the whole time.

“Busted my butt. I hate it for my guys and everybody at RCR and ECR. They deserved to get the win today. We hung underneath the [No.] 1 car there for 15 laps trying to pass him, finally passed him, and could get away from him a little bit, would catch a lap car, would back up a little bit, and the gap just kept doing that. I guess I just got in too big a hurry.”

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Although Busch understood that Briscoe had his own race to run, the two-time series champion acknowledged there used to be days when lapped traffic would yield to the leader as the race wound down. Busch felt he wasn’t given a lane, which resulted in trying to force his hand into getting to the outside.

Briscoe finished 24th. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver was not a factor in Sunday’s race, earning an average running position of 22.5 and falling further behind on the playoff grid to 25 points out of a transfer spot.

There was no contact between the two in the incident, but Briscoe said, “These cars are so sensitive when you are off to the right.” He couldn’t run up against the wall like Busch and the leaders, so he tried to give Busch at least a car width of space.

“[I] saw him get loose as soon as he got to my right rear,” Briscoe said. “It didn’t feel like I was trying to do anything. I literally left him the top lane. These cars, as soon as you get off to the right, especially here when you are running the wall, they just get really loose. I hate it for him. He has been so close all year long and I am a Kyle Busch fan and wanted to see him win to keep the streak alive. I hate that we are a part of the conversation.”

Busch has won at least one race each season since becoming a full-time Cup Series driver in 2005. A victory before the end of the season would push the streak to 20 consecutive seasons.

“I’m numb,” Busch said. “I don’t know what to do.”

Chastain returns to Cup victory as another playoff spoiler in Kansas

Ross Chastain played spoiler Sunday at Kansas Speedway with a victory in the opening race in the Round of 12 of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Chastain took the lead off a restart with 20 laps to go in the Hollywood Casino 400. The Trackhouse …

Ross Chastain played spoiler Sunday at Kansas Speedway with a victory in the opening race in the Round of 12 of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

Chastain took the lead off a restart with 20 laps to go in the Hollywood Casino 400. The Trackhouse Racing driver chose the inside lane underneath Martin Truex Jr. He charged by on the bottom and was clear of the field off Turn 2.

The victory was Chastain’s first of the year after failing to earn a playoff berth. He led playoff driver William Byron across the finish line with Truex finishing third.

“It’s a huge deal,” Chastain said. “For us on this [No. 1] team, it’s [why] Justin Marks bought into NASCAR with Trackhouse to do stuff like this — to disrupt. There have been times this year where we couldn’t have disrupted the minnow pond outside of Darlington, let alone a Cup race. It’s hard. It’s really tough.

“To come and do this today, there were times after practice and qualifying I didn’t think we had what it took. I thought we’ve been way stronger here in the past and it didn’t feel great all day, but our Kubota Chevy, gosh, it was better as the rubber went down, and the adjustments were great.”

Ryan Blaney finished fourth followed by Ty Gibbs, Alex Bowman and Christopher Bell in seventh after starting from the pole. Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott and Zane Smith completed the top 10. Elliott’s ninth-place finish came after starting last because of an engine issue during practice that required the team to change the power plant for the race.

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Bell led a race-high 122 laps. Byron won the first stage, and Bowman won the second.

The race’s final caution was for Carson Hocevar’s spin on the backstretch after contact from Todd Gilliland. Truex was the lead at the time of caution, with Chastain second, Bowman third and Byron fourth.

Chastain led 52 laps en route to his fifth career victory.

Daniel Suarez was the first of the playoff drivers to finish outside the top 10. He finished 13th and Joey Logano finished 15th. Chase Briscoe finished 24th, Tyler Reddick finished 25th, Kyle Larson finished 26th and Austin Cindric, 34th.

It was a long day for Larson, who hit the wall in Turn 2 on lap 19 because of a cut right rear tire. He fell off the lead lap on lap 56 and spent much of the afternoon having his car, which lacked grip and speed, repaired. Larson received the free pass under a lap 144 caution when Daniel Hemric spun.

Cindric spun on the backstretch on lap 157 after bouncing off Kyle Busch. It left Cindric with a flat left front tire.

 

The penultimate caution of the afternoon involved Busch. The Richard Childress Racing driver spun from the race lead while being chased by Chastain. He got loose off Turn 2 coming up on Briscoe, who was fighting to stay on the lead lap. Busch wiggled, hit the outside wall, and lost control of his Chevrolet.

Busch led 26 laps. He has six races left to go to victory lane and push his streak of winning at least one race a year to 20 straight.

Sunday’s race featured 30 lead changes among 15 drivers and 10 cautions.

RESULTS

Playoff spoiler Almirola beats Xfinity contenders to win at Kansas

Part-time NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Aric Almirola ran down Playoff leader Cole Custer in the closing laps of Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway and pulled away for his second victory of the season in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing …

Part-time NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Aric Almirola ran down Playoff leader Cole Custer in the closing laps of Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway and pulled away for his second victory of the season in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

In a Round of 12 Playoff opener that ended with several unhappy drivers and a handful of post-race conversations between Playoff contenders, Almirola picked up his first win at the 1.5-mile track and the sixth of his career.

Almirola beat Custer to the finish line by 0.660s, with Chandler Smith trailing in third after raising Custer’s ire by squeezing the No. 00 Ford into the outside wall as Custer chased Smith for the lead—before Almirola made his late-race run.

 

To seal the win, Almirola had to overcome a brush with the outside wall on Lap 124 and a resulting cut tire that forced him to the pits. An opportune caution that interrupted a cycle of green flag stops on lap 145 was all Almirola needed to get back on equal footing with the other contenders.

Almirola is the fourth driver to win two races this season in the No. 20 JGR Toyota, joining Christopher Bell, John Hunter Nemechek and Ryan Truex.

“I’m wore out,” said Almirola, who passed Custer for the lead on lap 197 of 200. “That was a hard day at the office for a guy that’s been sitting on the couch. I just pushed too hard there when we had the issue on pit road (a slow stop), and I got in the fence and cut the right-rear tire down.

“Knew I had to put my head down and go to work after that. We got lucky to get the caution when we did, and we were out of tires, so the fact that it went green there to the end [for the final 49 laps]… that’s where we were strong. We were really strong on the long runs.”

After the race, Custer had a brief conversation with Smith and vowed revenge.

“Everybody wants to try and talk afterwards,” Custer said. “At the end of the day, he put me in the fence, and he’s going to pay for it.”

Smith countered that he didn’t believe Custer ever had position to his outside.

“We’re racing for the win and five extra Playoff points,” said Smith, who led 114 laps. “You’ve got a very, very valid statement, I understand, but I also wouldn’t change what I did, because I was giving myself the best shot to win.”

Non-Playoff driver Connor Zilisch finished fourth, followed by Sheldon Creed, who improved his position in the Playoff standings by four spots with his seventh top five in the last nine races.

Pole winner Brandon Jones, who didn’t make the postseason, was fifth, followed by Playoff drivers Austin Hill, Shane van Gisbergen, Jesse Love and Riley Herbst.

In another post-race conversation, Hill apologized to Herbst for lap 90 contact that sent Herbst’s Ford spinning through the infield grass at the end of the second stage. In yet another tete a tete between Playoff drivers, Sammy Smith took AJ Allmendinger to task for early contact that damaged Smith’s Chevrolet.

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Smith finished 22nd and heads to next Saturday’s Playoff race at Talladega 12th in the standings, 23 points below the cut line for the Round of 8.

Allmendinger (17th Saturday) and Parker Kligerman (12th) are 10th and 11th in the Playoff standings, 13 and 15 points below the cutoff, respectively.

The shockingly bad luck haunting top-seeded Justin Allgaier continued in force on Saturday. Racing in close quarters with Creed after a restart on lap 70, Allgaier’s No. 7 Chevrolet broke loose, slid across traffic and nosed into the inside wall on the backstretch.

After frantic repairs, Allgaier attempted to return to the race, but a cut left-front tire sent him into the outside wall and out of action in 36th place.

Allgaier’s exit came eight days after a series of accidents knocked him out of the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway and cost him the regular-season championship.

“I don’t know if I’ve had a stretch of races that have been like these last three or four weeks,” said Allgaier. “We’re not out of it by any stretch. Obviously, that’s why you do all the work to get all the bonus points you can.

“We’ve got a long road the next two weeks. I’ve got the team that can do it. We’ve just got to go have some luck on our side.”

Allgaier fell from first to ninth in the standings and trails Herbst by one point in the battle for the final berth in the Round of 8.

Custer now leads the series by five points over Chandler Smith, with Hill 15 points back. Fourth-place Sam Mayer, who ran 13th at Kansas, is 28 points behind Custer and three points ahead of Creed in fifth.

Van Gisbergen and Love are sixth and seventh in the Playoff standings, respectively eight and three points above cut line for the next round.

RESULTS

Bell roars to third straight Cup Series pole at Kansas Speedway

Christopher Bell did it again in NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Kansas Speedway with his third straight pole win. Bell (P) was the final driver to take time in qualifying and went to the top at 179.336mph (30.111s). While it is Bell’s third …

Christopher Bell did it again in NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Kansas Speedway with his third straight pole win.

Bell (P) was the final driver to take time in qualifying and went to the top at 179.336mph (30.111s). While it is Bell’s third straight at the track, it’s his fourth career pole at Kansas Speedway. All four pole wins have come in the Next Gen era (six races at the track).

“I’ll tell you what, it’s the people that work on this race car that made the statement,” Bell said of his 12th career pole. “Today, we showed up with probably our best Kansas car we’ve ever had. It’s always been a great track for us to qualify at, and it seems like whenever we go race, we’re always that third to seventh [place] range and today it was different. It felt really, really good in practice and I felt really comfortable driving the car, and then they were able to duplicate the qualifying balance.”

Ty Gibbs qualified second at 179.099mph. Kyle Busch ran third at 178.642mph.

Tyler Reddick (P) qualified fourth at 178.767mph and Joey Logano (P) completed the top five qualifiers at 178.024mph. Reddick is the defending winner at Kansas Speedway.

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William Byron (P) qualified sixth at 178.247mph; Ryan Blaney (P), seventh at 177.317mph; Denny Hamlin (P), eighth at 178.218mph; Chase Briscoe (P), ninth at 175.965mph and Daniel Suarez (P) rounded out the top 10 at 178.130mph.

There are four playoff drivers starting outside the top 10.

Kyle Larson (P) qualified 11th and teammate Alex Bowman (P), 12th. Austin Cindric (P) qualified 17th.

Justin Haley qualified 23rd with his new Spire Motorsports team. Corey LaJoie, previously with Spire Motorsports and now with Rick Ware Racing after swapping rides with Haley, qualified 27th.

Jimmie Johnson ran 35th in a third Legacy Motor Club entry. Sunday will be Johnson’s seventh start of the season.

Chase Elliott (P) was 38th of 38 drivers in qualifying. Elliott made a lap with an ill-running engine in his Chevrolet. The team will make an engine change before Sunday’s race.

NEXT: The Hollywood Casino 400 at 3 p.m. ET Sunday (USA).

(P) denotes playoff driver

RESULTS

Elliott to start Cup race at Kansas from rear after engine change

Chase Elliott will start at the rear of the field Sunday at Kansas Speedway because of an engine issue with his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Elliott felt he was potentially down a cylinder during Saturday’s practice and his team did what …

Chase Elliott will start at the rear of the field Sunday at Kansas Speedway because of an engine issue with his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Elliott felt he was potentially down a cylinder during Saturday’s practice and his team did what they could under the hood on pit road. He ran 19 laps in practice and wound up 15th fastest overall.

“We’re not sure,” Elliott told NBC Sports of the issue. “We threw all the things [at it] that you can check on pit road. Obviously, when you have an engine issue like that, it can be difficult to identify what exactly is broken. For me, I came off Turn 2 and basically felt like it went down a cylinder; audible change, and lost a lot of power, so I knew something was wrong and came in as quick as I could just to try to keep from messing it up any worse.”

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In qualifying, Elliott did make a lap to the best of the car’s ability and to scuff the tires that carry over into the race, but then drove straight to the garage. Elliott was 38th of 38 drivers with his qualifying lap but would have started in the rear regardless, as the team will make an engine change ahead of the Hollywood Casino 400.

Kansas Speedway (3 p.m. ET, Sunday) is the first race in the Round of 12 in the playoffs.

Elliott begins the round sitting seventh on the playoff grid, six points above the cutline. He is a former winner at Kansas Speedway in 2018 and finished third at the track in the spring race.

“Such a bummer; what a terrible time to have something go wrong,” Elliott said. “The Hendrick engine shop has been so good throughout my career. I don’t even think I’ve filled up a hand of engine issues that we’ve had over the course of my entire career. I hate it, but I would much rather have it happen today than tomorrow.”

Trackhouse puts both cars at head end of Kansas Cup practice

Trackhouse Racing teammates Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez paced Saturday’s NASCAR Cup Series practice at Kansas Speedway. Chastain led the way at 177.439mph (30.433s). Suarez, who is still competing in the playoffs, ran a lap of 177.177mph. Alex …

Trackhouse Racing teammates Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez paced Saturday’s NASCAR Cup Series practice at Kansas Speedway.

Chastain led the way at 177.439mph (30.433s). Suarez, who is still competing in the playoffs, ran a lap of 177.177mph.

Alex Bowman (P) was third fastest at 177.026mph, Carson Hocevar was fourth at 177.026mph, and Ty Gibbs was fifth at 176.904mph. Kyle Larson (P) was sixth fastest at 176.511mph.

Daniel Hemric ran seventh at 176.280mph; William Byron (P), eighth at 176.194mph; Erik Jones, ninth at 176.171mph and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top 10 at 176.142mph.

Christopher Bell (P) was 12th fastest and Tyler Reddick (P) was 14th. Reddick is the defending race winner. Chase Elliott (P) was 15th.

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Elliott was in the first group of drivers on the track for practice but only ran 19 laps. The Hendrick Motorsports driver reported to his team it felt like he was down a cylinder, and the team spent the rest of practice under the hood of his Chevrolet.

Denny Hamlin (P) was 16th fastest, Austin Cindric (P) was 18th and Justin Haley, now driving for Spire Motorsports, was 19th.

Joey Logano (P) was 20th, while Corey LaJoie, now with Rick Ware Racing, was 25th fastest.

The final two playoff drivers in practice were Ryan Blaney in 27th and Chase Briscoe in 31st. Jimmie Johnson, in a third Legacy Motor Club car, was 37th fastest.

There are 38 drivers entered in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

William Byron was fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Byron over Bowman, Hocevar, Elliott, and Gibbs.

(P) denotes playoff driver

Stewart-Haas swaps pit crews to boost Briscoe’s playoff chances

Stewart-Haas Racing is swapping pit crews ahead of Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway – the start of the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Chase Briscoe, who is still championship eligible and the only Stewart-Haas driver who earned a …

Stewart-Haas Racing is swapping pit crews ahead of Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway — the start of the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

Chase Briscoe, who is still championship eligible and the only Stewart-Haas driver who earned a postseason berth, will be pitted by the crew that had been on Josh Berry’s No. 4 Ford Mustang. Briscoe’s crew, who had been with him on the No. 14 Ford Mustang, will go to work with Berry.

“It’s been humbling, just from the whole company, all embracing the [No.] 14 car and doing everything they can to make [it] have the best potential to win the championship,” Briscoe said Saturday. “That’s been cool — to have [something like 300] employees literally feel like they’re on your back and riding with you every single weekend. Then, just as a company, SHR from the day I’ve been there, has never worked as well as they have right now, all four crew chiefs, all four drivers. We even saw it last week. Noah [Gragson] was genuinely excited for me to make it onto the next round of the playoffs and and the [No.] 10 car has been going to the racetrack identical to us every week for the last three weeks, and even this week now the [No. 4 car is] as well.

“I do think that’s a little unique where, since I am the only car in, and even our situation with the whole team shutting down, all the resources, all the effort, all the focus, everything they got is on us right now. That’s different. No other team can say that. Penske still has three cars, and they’re all three trying to make the next round, where for us, especially at a place like Talladega next week, I do think it’ll make a difference just because I’m going to have three teammates that are super committed to doing everything they can to help me.”

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The crew pitting the No. 14 Ford Mustang for Briscoe beginning this weekend will be Daniel Smith (rear changer), Daniel Coffey (front changer), Evan Marchal (fueler), and Mason Flynt (tire carrier), but it’s not an entirely unfamiliar crew to Briscoe.

In 2022, Stewart-Haas put some of his crew on Kevin Harvick’s car as the latter tried to make the postseason. The change occurred in June before the Nashville Superspeedway race. This most recent swap between the No. 4 car, which Berry now drives following Harvick’s retirement, brings those members back to Briscoe on the No. 14 car.

“I’m back kind of with my original guys,” Briscoe said. “It’s tough — they’ve been able to be there and get us to this point, and that’s a decision that truthfully is made above me. I didn’t even know it was happening until they called me on Monday. The big thing I think for me is I just told those guys — I texted them all — ‘Look, you guys are just as much of the [No.] 14 team as you were last week. I know it probably doesn’t feel that way right now, but obviously, [Greg Zipadelli] and everybody at SHR felt like that’s what gave us the best opportunity to try to move on and try to advance to the next round.’”

Briscoe was one of six playoff drivers (of the 12 who have advanced to the second round) to earn two top-10 finishes in the first round of the playoffs. His average finish in the round was 16.7.

As the second round begins, Briscoe is seven points below a transfer spot.

Heim completes Truck Series season sweep at Kansas

Corey Heim won Friday night’s Kubota Tractor 200 in the fastest truck, but he needed help from fellow Playoff driver Ty Majeski to secure the victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Round of 10 elimination race at Kansas Speedway. Majeski ran …

Corey Heim won Friday night’s Kubota Tractor 200 in the fastest truck, but he needed help from fellow Playoff driver Ty Majeski to secure the victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Round of 10 elimination race at Kansas Speedway.

Majeski ran out of fuel approaching the white flag while leading, allowing Heim to surge past in his No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota and claim his sixth victory of the season in a race that saw reigning series champion Ben Rhodes and Playoff rookie Daniel Dye eliminated from title contention.

Under the third and final caution on lap 78 of the 134-lap race, Majeski came to pit road for tires and fuel, along with ThorSport Racing teammate Rhodes and eventual fourth-place finisher Kaden Honeycutt.

Heim, runner-up Layne Riggs and third-place finisher Christian Eckes stayed on track during the caution and made green-flag pit stops within the final 30 laps. Heim, who started the race from the rear of the field after hitting the outside wall and cutting a tire in practice earlier in the day, was chasing Majeski when the latter ran out of fuel.

Majeski, who had clinched a berth in the Round of 8 with his win in Stage 1, rolled home in 15th, the last driver on the lead lap.

“We were the best truck all night. It’s my favorite track; I love coming here,” said Heim, who won at the 1.5-mile speedway in the spring. “I look forward to this. I had a smile on my face all week coming to this place.

“I just thought we could sweep the year here. It’s an awesome place to come. I certainly thought we had it lost there to the No. 98 (Majeski), almost making it on fuel, but it just shows my team made the right call.”

 

The victory was Heim’s second at Kansas and the 11th of his career. He led a race-high 64 laps in an event that featured 10 lead changes among three drivers.

Heim, Eckes and Nick Sanchez had clinched spots in the Round of 8 in the second race of the Round of 10 at Bristol. Majeski, seventh-place finisher Rajah Caruth, ninth-place Grant Enfinger, 14th-place Tyler Ankrum and 18th-place Taylor Gray advanced on points Friday night.

In the closing laps, there was real suspense regarding the fortunes of two-time series champion Rhodes and Enfinger. Rhodes was on the same strategy as Majeski and ran as high as third as the race neared its conclusion.

Enfinger gained positions as Rhodes lost them in the late going, and the die was cast when Rhodes ran out of fuel.

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“We qualified fourth, and at the start of the race—massive changes with the truck,” said Rhodes, who won titles in 2021 and 2023. “We could not get it tightened up… Still kind of unacceptable. If we’d have gotten our stage points, it would have taken care of itself.”

Rhodes came home 22nd after running out of fuel and fell 25 points short of Enfinger for the final spot in the Round of 8.

“It was definitely a little bit stressful, definitely too close for comfort there,” Enfinger said. “This is a round we want to forget. We snuck through here, and now we’re looking forward to going to Talladega next week [for the first race in the Round of 8].”

Dye scraped the outside wall twice during the first stage and made multiple pit stops, falling three laps down. He finished 27th and, like Enfinger, was 25 points away from advancing to the next round.

Riggs, who didn’t qualify for the Playoffs in his rookie season, added the runner-up finish to his two victories in the previous two races.

Dawson Sutton ran fifth, followed by Tanner Gray, Caruth, Bayley Currey, Enfinger and Connor Mosack.

RESULTS

Top-rated 2025 Indiana recruit hypes official visit to Notre Dame

Will he pick the Irish?

Jalen Haralson is the top-rated 2025 recruit in the state of Indiana according to both 247Sports and On3. He played two years at Fishers before transferring to the prestigious La Lumiere. And he’s considering Notre Dame for his collegiate choice.

Haralson will make his official visit to Notre Dame on Saturday, the same day as the football team’s home opener against Northern Illinois. It will come exactly one weekend after he visited Indiana. Official visits to Michigan State, Missouri, Purdue and Kansas will follow.

Interestingly, all of Haralson’s official visits will come during home football games. It’s hard to tell how much, if at all, the football atmosphere will play a factor in his final decision.

In any case, Haralson is looking forward to visiting South Bend, and he indicated as much on social media:

There obviously is a long way to go before we know if Haralson picks the Irish. Until then, all we can is pray that he does.

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Former Wisconsin basketball star among nation’s best transfer commits

On3 says Wisconsin lost one of the best players of this transfer cycle:

Former Wisconsin basketball standout A.J Storr was ranked as the seventh-best player in this transfer cycle, according to On3’s industry transfer rankings.

Wisconsin’s leading scorer last season trailed only former Arizona center Oumar Ballo (Indiana), Miami small forward Norchad Omier (Baylor), FAU shooting guard Johnell Davis (Arkansas), Drake small forward Tucker DeVries (West Virginia), Tulsa shooting guard PJ Haggerty (Memphis) and Harvard point guard Malik Mack (Georgetown) on On3’s ranking.

Storr, who initially transferred from UW to Kansas in mid-April of 2023, entered the portal on March 28, 2024, after the Badgers’ NCAA Tournament first-round loss to James Madison.

In one season at UW, the Rockford, Illinois, native averaged 28.8 minutes, 16.8 points, 3.9 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.6 steals. He was the primary engine for a highly successful Wisconsin offense.

Storr elected to transfer to the Jayhawks over Arkansas, Illinois and Texas.

Wisconsin has been busy in the transfer portal this offseason, landing guard John Tonje, point guard Camren Hunter and power forward Xavier Amos.

Head coach Greg Gard successfully replenished the roster after the significant transfer portal losses of Storr and Chucky Hepburn.