KU basketball vs. West Virginia: Lineups, tipoff time and streaming info
The details
When/where: 3 p.m. Saturday, Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence
TV/radio: No TV, live stream on ESPN+ (subscription required); WHB (810 AM)
Projected lineups
P No. West Virginia Ht. Yr. PPG
F 1 Derek Culver 6-10 So. 11.0
F 11 Emmitt Matthews 6-7 So. 9.4
F 34 Oscar Tshiebwe 6-9 Fr. 11.8
G 10 Jermaine Haley 6-7 Sr. 10.5
G 5 Jordan McCabe 6-0 So. 3.0
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 33 David McCormack 6-10 So. 8.8
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 13.0
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 11.6
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.0
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.8
ABOUT NO. 16 WEST VIRGINIA (11-1): WVU, which has won four straight games, has defeated Akron, Pittsburgh, Northern Colorado, Boston, Northern Iowa, Wichita State, Rhode Island, Austin Peay, Nicholls State, Youngstown State and Ohio State. Only loss was at St. John’s. … A win over No. 2 Ohio State on Sunday was WVU’s 10th triumph in school history against a team ranked No. 1 or 2, with six of those wins coming during the 13-year Bob Huggins era. … Huggins is 5-16 all-time vs. KU; he’s 5-12 vs. KU as WVU coach. … Huggins has wins over 47 ranked teams at WVU, including 19 wins over Top 10 teams and three over No. 1.…Huggins is 871-363 in his 37th season as a head coach. He needs five more victories to tie Adolph Rupp for seventh place all-time. … Freshman forward Oscar Tshiebwe, the second McDonald’s All-American to enroll as a freshman at WVU (Chris Brooks, 1986 the other) was named the Big 12’s preseason freshman of the year, the first WVU player to receive a preseason rookie or freshman of the year award in any conference. … Tshiebwe was named Cancun Challenge MVP after scoring 19 points with 18 rebounds in a 75-63 championship game victory over Wichita State on Nov. 27 in Mexico. … WVU was picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 preseason coaches poll. …
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (10-2): The Jayhawks have won 28 straight conference openers dating to the 1991-92 season. Eleven of the opening wins have been at home and 17 on the road. Last time KU lost a conference opener was at Oklahoma, 88-82, on Jan. 8, 1991. … KU leads the all-time series against West Virginia, 12-5, with wins in six of the past seven meetings. ... KU is 7-0 vs. WVU at Allen, 2-5 at WVU Coliseum and 3-0 in the Big 12 tournament. … Bill Self is 483-108 while at Kansas, 690-213 for his head coaching career. He is 12-5 versus WVU. … Kansas is 2,285-861 all-time. … KU has won 25 games in a row at Allen. … KU leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage (51.6%) and WVU leads the league in FG percentage defense (35.9%). … Devon Dotson scored 14 points Sunday vs. Stanford marking his 18th-straight game with 10 or more points. The last time Dotson didn’t score in double digits was against Oklahoma on Mar. 5, 2019. … KU is 10-2 or better for the sixth-straight season and for the 13th time in the 17-year Bill Self era. … KU closed the 2010s decade with a 302-68 record. The 81.6 winning percentage over the last 10 years is the second-highest for a decade in program history (1990s 82%). …
