🏀 Jayhawks to Face Volunteers in Battle 4 Atlantis Title Game

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas – No. 3 Kansas (6-0) has a 17-game profitable streak heading into the championship of the Battle 4 Atlantis when the Jayhawks will play No. 22 Tennessee (4-1) on Friday, Nov. 25, at 6:30 p.m. (Central) within the Imperial Ballroom at Paradise Island, Bahamas. The competition will probably be televised on ESPN. KU defeated NC State, 80-74, in its opening-round sport and Wisconsin, 69-68 in additional time, within the semifinals.

Tip Off

• Kansas goes for its 11^th in-season match title below Invoice Self and its first since profitable the 2019 Maui Invitational.
• Kansas’ solely different look within the Battle 4 Atlantis was in 2013 when the Jayhawks positioned third on the occasion. KU is 4-1 all-time within the occasion. Within the Invoice Self period, Kansas has a 30-7 in-season match file with 10 tourney titles, together with six straight from 2014-19.
• Kansas’ 17-game profitable streak dates again to final 12 months’s NCAA Nationwide Championship run, beginning March 3, 2022. The 17-straignt wins is the fifth longest profitable streak within the Invoice Self period at Kansas (2003-04).
• Kansas and Tennessee are assembly for the seventh time with Kansas holding a 4-2 sequence benefit.
• Kansas has saved all six of its opponents below 40.0 p.c taking pictures, marking the longest stretch to begin a season because the starting of the 2009-10 season (first seven video games).
• Together with 4 double-doubles and a career-high 33 factors versus Southern Utah (11.18), redshirt-junior Jalen Wilson leads the convention in scoring (24.3) and double-doubles (4).
• Wilson has 146 factors by way of the primary six video games, which is probably the most by a KU participant since not less than the 1996-97 season.
• Freshman guard Gradey Dick made six three-pointers within the win towards NC State (11.23), which was one shy of the KU freshman file of seven by J.R. Giddens set in 2004.
• Dick has 101 factors this 12 months, which is the second-most by a KU freshman by way of the primary six video games of the season since not less than the 1996-97 season (Xavier Henry – 102 factors in 2009-10).
• Final season, Kansas turned the all-time winningest program in NCAA Division I, presently at 2,363 victories.
• Kansas is celebrating its a hundred and twenty fifth 12 months of males’s basketball in 2022-23.

Up Subsequent

Kansas returns house to host Texas Southern on Monday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. (Central). The competition will probably be televised on Huge 12 NOW on ESPN+.