KU vs. Dayton in Maui Invitational final: Lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts and figures
Here are projected starters with TV and radio information for the Kansas Jayhawks-Dayton Flyers game in the Maui Invitational championship game Wednesday in Lahaina, Hawaii.
The details
When/where: 4 p.m. Wednesday at Lahaina Civic Center
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
Projected lineups
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 33 David McCormack 6-10 So. 9.2
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.8
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 Soph. 10.2
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 8.7
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 17.8
P No. Dayton Ht. Yr. PPG
F 1 Obi Toppin 6-9 So. 24.0
F 33 Ryan Mikesell 6-7 Jr. 11.0
G 0 Rodney Chatman 6-1 Jr. 12.2
G 3 Trey Landers 6-5 Sr. 9.2
G 10 Jalen Crutcher 6-1 Soph. 11.8
ABOUT KANSAS (5-1): Kansas is 1-1 all-time against Dayton. KU won the last meeting, 60-43, on March 22, 2009 in a Midwest Regional contest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dayton beat KU, 61-48, in the NIT on March 23, 1968 in New York. … KU is 5-1 or better for the eighth straight season, starting in 2012-13, and for the 15th time in the 17-year Bill Self era. … KU is 14-6 in the Maui Invitational …. KU has won five in a row in Maui. … The Jayhawks will make their third straight appearance in the Maui championship game. KU beat Vanderbilt in 2015 and lost to Duke in 2011. … Udoka Azubuike has two double doubles in six games, 10 in his KU career. He has made 27 of his last 32 shot attempts in the last four games. … Devon Dotson took a career-high 16 shots against BYU, making five. He was 0 of 3 from three. … Dotson has made 32 of his last 36 free throws. …KU’s 29 first-half points against BYU were the fewest by the Jayhawks in a half this season. … KU outscored BYU 42-18 in the paint, marking the fourth straight game that Kansas has outscored its opponent by 20 or more points in the paint. … Kansas limited BYU to just one free throw attempt in the second half, the fewest by a Jayhawk opponent since West Virginia attempted one free throw on Jan. 19, 2019. … KU’s 10 fouls committed marked the fewest by the Jayhawks since KU committed eight against Kansas State on Feb. 25, 2019. … The Cougars four free throw attempts (three makes) were the fewest taken against Kansas since West Virginia had just two attempts on Feb. 17, 2018.
ABOUT DAYTON (5-0): Dayton coach Anthony Grant was a member of Bill Self’s coaching staff for the gold-medal winning U.S. Under 18 team at the FIBA Americas Under 18 championship for men held June 11-17, 2018, in Ontario, Canada. “We spent 3 1/2 weeks together. He is one of the classiest guys in the business, an unbelievable human being,” Self said Tuesday. “It’ll be a fun, competitive big-boy game from a physical standpoint. I like his team. He does, too. I look for both teams to play very hard.” Former KU player and assistant coach Danny Manning also served as assistant coach for Team USA … Grant is 40-29 in three seasons at Dayton. … ESPN’s Jay Bilas named forward Obi Toppin the No. 1 candidate to have a breakout season. He had 25 points in an 80-61 first-round Maui win against Georgia and 24 points in a 89-62 semifinal win over Virginia Tech. … Toppin was named to the Atlantic Ten’s preseason first team and Jalen Crutcher second team. … Dayton won the Maui Invitational in 2003. … Dayton won the Atlantic Ten title in 2015-16 and 2016-17 … Dayton won more games than any other school in both the 1950s and 1960s. UD won 435 games between 1950 and ’69 and ranks among the top teams in Div. I history in a 20-year period. ... Coach Grant on his team’s fans who have flocked to Maui: “If you ever get a chance to come to Dayton, Ohio, you’ll know that that’s an everyday thing for our fans. We got some of the greatest fans in the country. You can see by the way they travel, the way they show up here. And they love the Flyers. So I can’t thank them enough for coming out here and giving us all the love and support that they give us.”
