KU basketball vs. Texas Tech: Lineups, tipoff time, TV info, 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. Texas Tech Ht. Yr. PPG
F 22 TJ Holyfield 6-8 Sr. 8.6
G 0 Kyler Edwards 6-4 So. 11.8
G 25 Davide Moretti 6-3 Jr. 13.7
G 1 Terrence Shannon 6-6 Fr. 12.1
G 3 Jahmi’us Ramsey 6-4 Fr. 15.3
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.8
G 2 Christian Braun 6-6 Fr. 5.3
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.5
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.3
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.0
ABOUT TEXAS TECH (13-7, 4-3 Big 12): Fourth-year coach Chris Beard is 89-38 at Texas Tech. He was named AP’s national coach of the year after leading the Red Raiders to last year’s NCAA title game. He won Big 12 coach of the year the past two seasons. … Beard is 2-4 all-time against KU. … Tech is 8-2 in the NCAA Tournament over the past two years after making the 2018 NCAA Elite Eight and reaching the Final Four a year ago. … Texas Tech leads the Big 12 in assists at 16.3 per game. The Red Raiders force 17.5 turnovers per game. … Davide Moretti has made 60 of 66 free throws for 90.9%. … Grad transfer TJ Holyfield, who had KU on his list of transfer possibilities, starts and averages 8.5 ppg and 4.8 rpg. The 6-foot-8 former Stephen F. Austin forward has a team-leading 18 blocks. … Tech’s players are wearing a No. 14 patch on their jerseys in memory of former Tech player Andre Emmett, who was murdered on Sept. 23, 2019, in Dallas. Emmett is all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,256 career points from 2001-04. … Tech is 2-3 against ranked opponents. The Red Raiders beat Louisville, 70-57, on Dec. 10 when Louisville was ranked No. 1. … Chris Clarke will play the 100th game of his career Saturday. He is in his first season at Texas Tech after playing three seasons at Virginia Tech. He averages 7.9 rebounds per game… The Red Raiders have five international players: Moretti (Italy), Clarence Nadolny (France), Joel Ntambwe (Congo), Andrei Savrasov (Russia) and Russel Tchewa (Cameroon).
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (17-3, 6-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series against Texas Tech, 35-6, including an 18-1 mark in Allen Fieldhouse. The Red Raiders won, 85-73, on Jan. 2, 2018 in Allen. The Jayhawks avenged that home loss last season by prevailing, 79-63, on Feb. 2, 2019 in Allen. Tech, however, won the last meeting, 91-62, on Feb. 23, 2019 in Lubbock, Texas. ... The Jayhawks and Red Raiders have split the last four meetings. Prior to that, KU had won 16 straight in the series. … Bill Self is 21-5 versus Texas Tech in his 17 seasons at KU. … KU is 6-1 or better in Big 12 play for the 14th time in the Self era. … Self is 490-109 while at Kansas, 697-214 for his career. His teams are 258-14 all-time in Allen … KU is 2,291-862 all-time and 796-114 in Allen. The Jayhawks are four wins from 800 in Allen. … KU has held nine of its last 11 opponents to 60 or fewer points. On Monday, Oklahoma State’s 50 points were fewest points scored by an opponent in a road conference game against KU since Texas Tech scored 46 on Jan. 12, 2013 in Lubbock, Texas. The Cowboys hit 28.1% (18-of-64) from the field, the lowest percentage versus KU by a Big 12 opponent on its home floor since Colorado hit 27.3% against KU on Feb. 14, 2007. … Udoka Azubuike, who had five blocks at OSU, has 24 rejections over the last six games. … Isaiah Moss has scored in double-figures six times his senior season and 49 times in his career, which includes three seasons at Iowa.
