Kansas-Baylor lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts & figures

Baylor at No. 10 Kansas

WHEN/WHERE: 5 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence

TV/RADIO: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)

PROJECTED LINEUPS:

ABOUT BAYLOR (12-6, 2-4 Big 12): Five of Baylor’s six losses are to ranked teams. The Bears dropped home games against No. 5 Wichita State and No. 16 TCU and road games at No. 10 Xavier, No. 8 Texas Tech, No. 2 West Virginia and Iowa State. … Baylor is 36-62 against Associated Press ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in coach Scott Drew’s first four seasons. … Baylor has defeated 18 ranked teams over the last four seasons (18-22). … Baylor is 13-93 all-time in road games vs. AP top 25 teams, including 3-43 on the road vs. AP top 10 teams. … Baylor is 28-29 in Big 12 road games since 2012, trailing only KU (38-18). … Drew is 3-21 versus KU … Drew is 289-186 in 15 seasons at Baylor and 309-197 overall in 16 seasons as a head coach. … Manu Lecomte scored a career-best 30 points in Monday’s win over Oklahoma State. He hit a career-high tying seven threes. He has scored in double-figures 13 times this season and 59 times in his career. Lecomte has scored 20 or more points seven times this season and 11 times for his career. … Jo Lual-Acuil has scored in double figures 14 times this season and 33 times in a two-year Baylor career. … Baylor is 164-70 over the last seven seasons.

ABOUT KANSAS (15-3, 5-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series, 29-4. The Jayhawks have won 10 straight in the series and hold a 15-2 advantage in the last 17 meetings. Baylor’s two wins in that stretch came on March 9, 2013, in Waco, Texas, and March 9, 2012, at the Big 12 Tournament semifinals at the Sprint Center. The last four meetings have been decided by six points or less. … KU is 15-0 against Baylor in Lawrence, including a 14-0 record in Allen Fieldhouse. Twelve of the 14 games at Allen have been decided by double digits … In two wins against Baylor last season, KU hit 36 of 47 free throws to Baylor’s 13 of 17. Baylor led by six at halftime in both of those games. … Since the inception of the Big 12, KU is 27-4 against Baylor — 25-2 in regular-season play and 2-2 in the Big 12 tourney. … Baylor’s 73-68 loss last season was its closest margin at Allen Fieldhouse. … KU coach Bill Self is 21-4 all-time against Baylor, including a 21-3 mark while at KU. … Udoka Azubuike leads the NCAA in field goal percentage (78.1). He has made 23 of 25 shots (92.0 percent) in his last four games. … Devonté Graham and Svi Mykhailiuk have combined to average 37.7 points per game in the last eight games. They have hit 59 of KU’s 88 three-pointers in that same span. … KU has made 44.0 percent (122-277) of its threes at home, compared to 37.1 percent (73-197) in its eight games elsewhere. Two KU teams in school history have shot better than 43 percent from three on James Naismith Court — the 2016-17 team (46.5 percent) and the 2015-16 team (44.7 percent).

This story was originally published January 19, 2018 at 6:31 PM with the headline "Kansas-Baylor lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts & figures."