KU basketball at Texas: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 1 p.m. Saturday at Erwin Center in Austin, Texas
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
Projected starters
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 33 David McCormack 6-10 So. 7.9
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.8
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.9
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.4
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.0
or G 4 Isaiah Moss 6-5 Sr. 8.3
P No. Texas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 20 Jericho Sims 6-9 Jr. 9.1
F 33 Kamaka Hepa 6-9 So. 3.2
G 2 Matt Coleman 6-2 Jr. 12.1
G 3 Courtney Ramey 6-3 So. 11.3
G 13 Jase Febres 6-5 Jr. 10.4
ABOUT No. 6 KANSAS (13-3, 3-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series against Texas, 33-9. The Jayhawks have won 11 of the past 12 meetings, the lone loss last season in Austin (73-63). KU is 10-7 at Erwin Center. KU has won four of the last five at Erwin Center ... Bill Self is 23-7 against Texas as KU coach and 23-9 overall. … KU is 3-1 or better in Big 12 play for the seventh straight season and 16th time in the Self era. … KU won 66-52 Tuesday at Oklahoma to improve to 96-13 in the Self era in games coming off a loss. … KU is 3-1 in true road game this season and 7-2 in games not played in Allen Fieldhouse. … The Jayhawks are 135-59 (69.6%) on the road in Big 12 play since 1996-97, which includes a 2-0 mark so far this season. The team with the next highest winning percentage is Texas, which is 87-108 (44.6%) in conference road games since the league formed. ... Self is 486-109 while at Kansas, 693-214 for his career. … KU is 2,288-862 all-time. … Udoka Azubuike has 16 blocked shots in his last four games. … Azubuike is 378-for-503 shooting in his career. He is currently in first place on KU’s all-time shooting percentage list (75.1%.). Mark Randall shot 62% from 1987-91. … Kansas held OU to under 60 points on Tuesday, marking the fourth-consecutive true road game the Jayhawks have limited their opponent to under 60 points and the ninth overall time this season. KU is now 8-1 in those games with a 176-2 record in the 17-year Self era. Azubuike has been named one of 30 men’s basketball candidates for the 2019-20 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible, a player must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and “have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition.”
ABOUT TEXAS (12-4, 2-2 Big 12): Texas is 6-2 in its last eight home games against AP Top 20 opponents. ... Texas has 20 blocked shots in its last two games. The Longhorns registered a season-high 11 blocks in Wednesday’s victory at Oklahoma State, led by a career-high five rejections from freshman Kai Jones. ... Since being inserted into the starting lineup for the last five games, sophomore Kamaka Hepa, who is from Barrow, Alaska, has averaged 7.8 points a game and 3.6 rpg in 25.5 minutes per contest. He has made 15 of his last 29 shots (52%) including 9 of 22 from three (41%). ... Fifth-year Texas coach Shaka Smart is 2-8 versus Kansas, including 1-8 while at UT. Smart’s 2011 VCU team defeated Kansas, 71-61, in the NCAA Tournament Southwest Region championship game in San Antonio. ... Smart has posted an 83-70 mark at UT. ... Smart has led the Longhorns to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances (2016, 2018) and the 2019 NIT Championship. In 11 seasons overall as a collegiate head coach, Smart has compiled a 246-126 record. …Texas’ four losses this season are to Oklahoma (72-62), Baylor (59-44), Providence (70-48) and Georgetown (82-66). … Texas has 1,801 wins in program history against 1,092 losses. … Matt Coleman posted 10 assists without a turnover in 38 minutes against McNeese State on Nov. 30. … Coleman’s younger brother, Chase, is a freshman at the University of Virginia.
