Kansas-Texas basketball preview: lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts, figures
Texas at No. 8 Kansas
WHEN/WHERE: 8 p.m. Monday at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence
TV/RADIO: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
PROJECTED LINEUPS
P No. Texas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 4 Mohamed Bamba 6-11 Fr. 13.0
F 21 Dylan Osetkowski 6-9 Jr. 13.7
G 2 Matt Coleman 6-2 Fr. 9.0
G 12 Kerwin Roach 6-4 Jr. 11.7
G 13 Jase Febres 6-5 Fr. 3.5
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
C 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 So. 13.7
G 10 Svi Mykhailiuk 6-8 Sr. 15.6
G 4 Devonté Graham 6-2 Sr. 17.9
G 21 Clay Young 6-5 Sr. 1.0
G 14 Malik Newman 6-3 So. 12.3
or 2 Lagerald Vick 6-5 Jr. 12.6
ABOUT TEXAS (17-12, 7-9 Big 12): Texas coach Shaka Smart is 1-5 against KU, including 0-5 while at Texas. Smart’s 2011 VCU team beat KU 71-61 in the NCAA Elite Eight in San Antonio. … Texas has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 17 of the last 19 years. … With its 77-66 victory at No. 23 Oklahoma on Feb. 17, Texas recorded its first true road win against an AP Top 25 opponent since a 67-59 victory at No. 15 Baylor on Feb. 1, 2016. … Texas has played six overtime games in its 29 contests, including four of 16 league games. The six overtime games ties the school record for most OT games played in a year (2012-13). … Mo Bamba did not play in the second half of Saturday’s 65-64 win over Oklahoma State because of a left toe injury. … Junior guard Kerwin Roach hit the game-winning layup with 1.2 seconds left Saturday. Dylan Osetkowski had 13 points and nine rebounds. … Texas junior guard Eric Davis is out indefinitely as the school looks into allegations presented in a Yahoo Sports story that claimed Davis received $1,500 from Christian Dawkins, an associate of agent Andy Miller of ASM Sports. Davis had 12 points and three rebounds in KU’s 92-86 victory over Texas on Dec. 29 in Austin.
ABOUT KANSAS (23-6, 12-4 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series, 30-8. The Jayhawks have won eight straight, 13 of the last 14 and 16 of the last 18 matchups against Texas. The last KU loss was 81-69 on Feb. 2, 2014 in Austin. … Beginning in 1983-84, Kansas has won 34 straight home finales, including 33 Senior Nights. In 2007, KU did not have a senior on the roster. … The Jayhawks have won 61 conference titles, the most of any school in NCAA Division I. Kentucky is next at 54 and Pennsylvania is third at 37. … Bill Self is 20-8 all-time against Texas, including 20-6 at KU. … Devonté Graham has played 40 minutes 12 times in his last 16 games. Graham, who will be honored Monday at Senior Night with Svi Mykhailiuk and Clay Young, moved past Tyshawn Taylor and Wayne Simien on Saturday for No. 15 on KU’s all-time scoring list with 1,595 points. He’s ninth on KU’s all-time assist list with 555. … Mykhailiuk has scored 20 or more points in 10 games. He has grabbed four or more rebounds eight times in the last 10 games. … Malik Newman has made 11 of his last 18 threes over four games. … KU has won 301 Big 12 regular-season games against 64 losses. … Kansas has dropped three games at Allen Fieldhouse this season. The last time KU lost four games at home in a single season was 1988-89 (10-4). All four of those losses that season were conference games. … The Jayhawks have four conference losses. The last time KU dropped five league games in a season was 2014-15. Kansas lost six games at Allen Fieldhouse in 1982-83. Five of those losses were conference games.
This story was originally published February 25, 2018 at 4:20 PM with the headline "Kansas-Texas basketball preview: lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts, figures."