KU basketball vs. Tennessee: Lineups, tipoff time, TV information, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 3 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
Projected starters
P No. Tennessee Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Yves Pons 6-6 Jr. 10.7
F 10 John Fulkerson 6-9 Jr. 11.5
G 23 Jordan Bowden 6-5 Sr. 12.3
G 5 Josiah-Jordan James 6-6 Fr. 8.3
G 25 Santiago Vescovi 6-3 Fr. 9.7
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.9
G 4 Isaiah Moss 6-5 Sr. 8.0
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.3
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.5
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.2
ABOUT TENNESSEE (12-6, 4-2 SEC): Tennessee coach Rick Barnes is 7-21 all-time against KU (7-20 at Texas, 0-1 at Tennessee). ... The Vols are 4-3 against teams ranked in the AP top five during the five-year Barnes era and 28-77 against top five teams all time. That includes a 3-16 record against teams ranked No. 3. … Barnes in 33 seasons as a coach is 21-44 against AP top five foes. … On Feb. 11, 2008, Barnes led Texas to a 72-69 home win over a Kansas team ranked No. 3. … Barnes (704) and KU’s Bill Self (695) are the seventh- and eighth-winningest active Division I coaches, respectively. … Barnes is 100-56 overall at Tennessee. … UT is 4-1 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. The Vols did not take part in the inaugural challenge. … Tennessee leads the SEC in both scoring defense (59.0 ppg) and field-goal percentage defense (.377). … The Vols have won their last two games and four of five. Tennessee beat Missouri, 69-59, on Jan. 7 in Columbia, Missouri. … Tennessee’s all-time record against current members of the Big 12 stands at 14-17. … Yves Pons, who had three blocks in Tuesday’s home win over Mississippi, has recorded at least one block in each of Tennessee’s 18 games. … Redshirt freshman center Uros Plavsic, who became eligible on Jan. 14, scored four points in 11 minutes in the Vols’ last game — a 73-48 home win over Mississippi. … Seven current Vols are left-handed shooters: Victor Bailey, John Fulkerson, Davonte Gaines, Josiah-Jordan James, Jalen Johnson, Yves Pons and Santiago Vescovi. … Former Missouri standout Kim English is in his first year as an assistant coach at Tennessee. He had previously worked as an assistant at Tulsa and most recently Colorado.
ABOUT No. 3 KANSAS (15-3, 5-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series against Tennessee, 3-1. … The four previous meetings have been decided by an average of nine points. … ESPN’s GameDay will be in town to broadcast KU’s 300th consecutive sellout. The streak started with the KU-Wake Forest game on Dec. 4, 2001. Last non sellout was against Pittsburg State on Nov. 28, 2001. Doors to the fieldhouse will open at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, for the 10 a.m., GameDay show. ... KU is 14-5 when featured on GameDay and has won its last six GameDay contests. … KU is 5-1 or better in the Big 12 for the 14th time in the Self era and the first time since the 2017-18 season. Kansas is 7-1 in Allen Fieldhouse this season and 795-114 all-time. KU is 257-14 in Allen during the Self era. … Self is 488-109 while at Kansas, 695-214 for his career. … Self is 4-1 all-time versus Tennessee including 3-1 at KU. ... Kansas is 2,290-862 all-time. … Freshman wing Christian Braun hit six threes Tuesday against Kansas State. It was the most threes by a KU freshman since Quentin Grimes hit six against Michigan State on Nov. 6, 2019. … Udoka Azubuike has seven double-doubles. Azubuike averages 4.2 blocks in six Big 12 contests. … Sophomore Devon Dotson has scored in double digits 16 times in 2019-20. ... Kansas junior Marcus Garrett is one of 15 players named to the midseason Naismith Trophy Defensive Player of the Year list, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced earlier this week. ... Self said Friday that freshman Jalen Wilson, who had surgery in November to repair a broken ankle, has been practicing with full contact. Self said he has not made a final decision on whether Wilson will redshirt or soon resume playing in games.
