KU-West Virginia lineups, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures

No. 10 Kansas at No. 6 West Virginia

WHEN/WHERE: 8 p.m. Monday at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W. Va.

TV/RADIO: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)

PROJECTED LINEUPS

ABOUT KANSAS (14-3, 4-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series, 7-4. Kansas has won three of the last four meetings. However, the Jayhawks have dropped four in a row at WVU Coliseum. … Bill Self is 7-4 against West Virginia. … Self is 199-42 in Big 12 games. … Devonté Graham’s 23 points Saturday against Kansas State moved him past Marcus Morris, Adonis Jordan and Richard Scott into 26th place on KU’s career scoring list with 1,388 points. … Svi Mykhailiuk’s three three-pointers against Kansas State moved him past Tyrel Reed into 11th place on the KU three-point list (177). Mykhailiuk trails Adonis Jordan by two threes. With his 3-of-6 outing from beyond the arc against the Wildcats, Mykhailiuk is now shooting 56.3 percent (40 of 71) from three-point range at Allen Fieldhouse. Three other Jayhawks have shot better than 50 percent from three inside Allen in a season (with a minimum of three attempts per game) — Kirk Hinrich (59.6 percent, 2001), Frank Mason (58.8 percent, 2017) and Brandon Rush (52.8 percent, 2006). … Udoka Azubuike has scored in double figures in 15 of 17 games. … Since the 2010-11 season the Jayhawks, who beat K-State 73-72 on Saturday, have been involved in 10 games that have been decided by one point. Kansas is 9-1 in those games. The Jayhawks are 23-10 in games decided by three points or fewer during that same span. … On Saturday, for the first time this season, the Jayhawks won after trailing with 5 minutes remaining. Kansas is 1-3 in such games this season and 28-74 in the Bill Self era.

ABOUT WEST VIRGINIA (15-2, 4-1 Big 12): West Virginia had its 15-game winning streak, the program’s longest since 1988-89 (22 in row) and the longest of any team in the country this year, snapped on Saturday in a 72-71 loss at Texas Tech. Junior forward Esa Ahmad, who had missed 16 games because of an NCAA suspension, debuted with 18 points and six rebounds in 34 minutes. … Bob Huggins is 4-11 all-time against Kansas. He’s 4-7 vs. KU as West Virginia’s coach. … West Virginia’s No. 2 national ranking last week is the highest ranking for the team since Dec. 29, 1959, which was Jerry West’s senior season. That was also the final year for West Virginia coach Fred Schaus. He led the Mountaineers to a six-year record of 147-37 and a run of 56 straight weeks in the polls before taking the Los Angeles Lakers coaching job. … Huggins (834-332 in 36 years) is the country’s third winningest active Division I coach behind Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim. … West Virginia is 128-32 at WVU Coliseum under Huggins, including a 64-28 mark in league games. The Mountaineers are 537-152 all-time at WVU Coliseum and 169-38 there in the last 14 seasons. The Mountaineers have won 78 of their last 109 conference games at WVU Coliseum. … Jevon Carter was chosen Big 12 defensive player of the year last season. He is the third player in Big 12 history to earn three selections on the All-Big 12 defensive team. Carter was also the NABC defensive player of the year and the Lefty Driesell defensive player of the year.

This story was originally published January 14, 2018 at 4:39 PM with the headline "KU-West Virginia lineups, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures."