No. 5 Kansas to Play at No. 22 TCU on ESPN Big Monday

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – No. 5 Kansas (22-5, 10-4) males’s basketball hits the highway to tackle No. 22 TCU (18-9, 7-7) on ESPN Massive Monday, Feb. 20. The sport from Ed and Rae Schollmaier Area will start at 8 p.m. (CT) and be televised on ESPN.

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• Kansas and Texas sit atop the Massive 12 standings with 10-4 league data, one recreation forward of Baylor (9-5) with Kansas State and Iowa State at 8-6. KU has the Massive 12’s longest energetic profitable streak at 4 video games after its 87-71 win in opposition to No. 9 Baylor on Feb. 18. TCU snapped a four-game dropping streak with a 100-75 win in opposition to Oklahoma State on Feb. 18.
• Kansas leads the general sequence with TCU, 24-4, however the sequence is 2-2 in its final 4 battles. Earlier this 12 months, TCU defeated KU, 83-60, on Jan. 21 in Lawrence.
• Final season, Kansas turned the all-time winningest program in NCAA Division I, presently at 2,379 victories.
• Kansas is No. 6 within the NET Rankings via video games performed on Feb. 18. Kansas is No. 1 in NET Power of Schedule and its 13 Quadrant 1 wins are probably the most in NCAA Division I. Baylor and Texas are subsequent with eight.
• Kansas has appeared within the Related Press prime 10 in every of the final 34 polls courting again to the 2021-22 preseason ballot. The 34 consecutive is the longest energetic streak in males’s faculty basketball.
• An All-America and nationwide participant of the 12 months candidate, redshirt-junior Jalen Wilson leads the Massive 12 in scoring at 20.4 ppg, which is twentieth nationally, rebounds per recreation at 8.3 and double-doubles with 9.
• Redshirt-junior Dajuan Harris Jr. lead the Massive 12 and is seventh nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.05 (seventh nationally). He’s second within the league and seventh nationally in assists per recreation at 6.2. Harris has 18 assists and two turnovers in his final two video games.
• Redshirt-senior Kevin McCullar Jr. is second within the Massive 12 in steals (2.2), which is twenty third nationally. He’s fourth within the league in rebounds per recreation at 7.4 rpg.
• Freshman Gradey Dick is a two-time Massive 12 Newcomer of the Week who leads the group with 63 threes made. Dick leads KU with a 41.4 taking pictures proportion from past the arc.
• Sophomore KJ Adams is main Kansas with a 64.9 discipline purpose proportion. Adams’ 64.9 FG% ranks third on the KU single-season all-time listing behind Udoka Azubuike (77.0% in 2017-18 and 74.8% in 2019-20).
• Kansas is celebrating 125 years of males’s basketball in 2022-23.

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Kansas returns dwelling to host West Virginia on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m. (Central) in Allen Fieldhouse. The sport will likely be televised on ESPN. Each coaches are Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame inductees with Kansas’ Invoice Self in 2017 and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins in 2022.

Kansas leads the general sequence with West Virginia, 18-6, together with a 10-0 file in Allen Fieldhouse. Earlier this season, KU defeated WVU, 76-62, on Jan. 7 in Morgantown.