KU basketball vs. Oklahoma State: Lineups, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 8 p.m. Monday at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma
TV/radio: ESPN2; WHB (810 AM)
Projected starters
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 13.2
G 4 Isaiah Moss 6-5 Sr. 7.7
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.6
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.4
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.4
P No. Oklahoma State Ht. Yr. PPG
F 22 Kalib Boone 6-9 Fr. 3.3
F 12 Cameron McGriff 6-7 Sr. 9.9
G 21 Lindy Waters 6-6 Sr. 12.0
G 00 Avery Anderson 6-2 Fr. 5.2
G 13 Isaac Likekele 6-4 So. 11.6
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (16-3, 5-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series against Oklahoma State, 116-59. The Jayhawks have won the last three games between the teams after dropping four of seven. … The Jayhawks have lost four of their last six games in Gallagher-Iba Arena and are 35-35 all-time in the tradition-rich building. KU won in Stillwater last season, 72-67. … Bill Self is 19-10 versus his alma mater as KU coach. … Self is 489-109 while at Kansas, 696-214 for his career. … KU is 2,291-862 all-time. … KU had just six turnovers Saturday vs. Tennessee, lowest total since KU had four against Texas on Jan. 14, 2019. … Tennessee’s two steals were the fewest by a KU opponent since Wofford had one on Dec. 4, 2018. … KU has been outrebounded in three games all season, including getting outboarded 36-32 by Tennessee. … KU is 7-0 when scoring between 70-79 points with a 155-20 record in the Self era. The Jayhawks are 15-3 this season when holding the opponent to under 70. … Udoka Azubuike has 16 career double-doubles and eight this season. He has now posted double-doubles and had four or more blocks in five of his last seven games. Azubuike is 11th all-time in blocked shots at KU with 139. … In his last four games, Marcus Garrett has an 4.5-to-1 assist to turnover ratio.
ABOUT OKLAHOMA STATE (10-9, 0-6 Big 12): Oklahoma State will “Remember The Ten” in conjunction with the Big Monday game against KU in Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Southwest lobby of Gallagher-Iba, known as Memorial Lobby, will be open during regular business hours Monday for anyone who would like to pay respects or leave a memento. Ten members of OSU’s traveling party died on Jan. 27, 2001 in a plane crash. … OSU snapped a six-game losing streak by beating Texas A&M, 73-62, Saturday in College Station, Texas. The Cowboys had a season-high 22 assists vs. A&M. … Over the last four games, Oklahoma State has shot a combined 34 of 83 (40.9%) from behind the arc, including 10 three-point makes in two of the last three games. … Senior Cameron McGriff on Saturday became the 43rd Cowboy to score 1,000 points. He has 1,005. Earlier this season, Lindy Waters hit the 1,000 standard. Last OSU duo to hit the 1,000-point mark in the same season are Marcus Smart and Le’Bryan Nash in 2013-14. …Waters is tied with Brooks Thompson for 12th most three-point baskets in school history (175). … Third-year coach Mike Boynton is 2-3 versus KU. … The last time Oklahoma State started Big 12 play with an 0-6 record was in 2016-17. Cowboy captains Waters, McGriff and Thomas Dziagwa were freshmen on that team — one that turned around the 0-6 start to finish 9-9 in the league and earn an at-large bid to the NCAAs. … The Cowboys are 7-15 against AP top 25 teams under Boynton, but have lost their last nine games against ranked foes. … OSU is 10-6 at home against teams ranked inside the AP top three since the poll began in 1948-49. Seven of those 10 victories came when OSU was unranked. … Barry Hinson, who worked as a member of Self’s administrative staff at KU for four seasons, is an analyst on Boynton’s OSU staff. Hinson, a 1983 OSU graduate, has been a head coach at Oral Roberts, Missouri State, and Southern Illinois.
This story was originally published January 27, 2020 at 5:00 AM.
