The Kansas Jayhawks played perhaps the game of the year in the 2025-26 men's college basketball season on Tuesday, January 6, and for them, the 104-100 overtime win over Texas Christian University meant a little more. The Jayhawks were playing with heavy hearts, grieving the death of athletics staffer Scott "Scooter" Ward, who died on Saturday, January 3, at age 59. His wife, Robin Ward, wrote via Facebook that he had been recovering from surgery.