Kansas Jayhawks basketball at TCU: Lineups, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 11 a.m. Saturday at Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
TV/radio: ESPN2; WHB (810 AM)
Projected starters
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
C 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.6
G 2 Christian Braun 6-6 Fr. 5.3
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.4
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.6
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.0
P No. TCU Ht. Yr. PPG
C 21 Kevin Samuel 6-11 So. 11.1
G 5 Jaire Grayer 6-5 Sr. 6.6
G 1 Desmond Bane 6-6 Sr. 16.2
G 22 RJ Nembhard 6-5 So. 12.4
G 2 Edric Dennis 6-3 Sr. 7.0
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (19-3, 8-1 Big 12): KU is one victory from extending its streak of consecutive 20-win seasons to 31. KU’s 31-straight 20-win seasons would tie the NCAA record, set by North Carolina (31) from 1971-2001. … Bill Self’s next victory will be No. 700 in a 27-year college head coaching career. His teams at KU, Illinois, Tulsa and Oral Roberts are 699-214. … Self is 492-109 in 17 seasons at KU. … Self at 57 years, 1 month old will be the second youngest coach in NCAA history to reach 700 wins. Bob Knight was 56 years, 4 months old when he hit the 700 mark. … Coaching his 914th game Saturday, Self is vying to become the sixth fastest to 700 wins. It would be 24 games faster than Phog Allen, who was 746-264 overall from 1906-56. Allen went 590-219 in 39 years at KU. … KU is 2,293-862 all time. … Kansas leads the all-time series against TCU, 18-2. KU is 7-1 in games played versus TCU in Fort Worth and is 5-1 in Schollmaier Arena. The Jayhawks won, 82-77, in OT last year in Fort Worth. … KU has won four in a row versus the Horned Frogs and 14 of 15. … Self is 15-2 versus TCU as KU coach. … Udoka Azubuike on Monday against Texas collected his 400th field goal, a number which qualifies him for the NCAA’s all-time FG percentage list. He has made 407 of 543 shots, good for 75.0% Tacko Fall, who hit 497 of 672 shots (74%) from 2016 to 2019 at Central Florida, entered the season as No. 1 on the NCAA’s all-time FG percentage list. … Azubuike has 147 blocked shots. He’s tied with Donnie Von Moore (1974-78) for 10th on KU’s all-time blocks list. ... KU is 25-1 when Azubuike scores 15 or more points. … Marcus Garrett has 36 assists against nine turnovers in his last seven games. … Garrett has played 39 minutes in two games: vs. Texas and Tennessee.
ABOUT TCU (13-9, 4-5 Big 12): Jamie Dixon is 81-50 in four seasons at TCU and 56-16 overall in Schollmaier Arena (18-13 in league games at home). … Dixon is 409-173 overall in 17 seasons as a head coach. … He is 1-6 versus KU. … TCU is 22-164 all-time against ranked opponents and 6-23 under Dixon. … The Horned Frogs defeated KU, 85-82, on March 9, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas when the Jayhawks were ranked No. 1 in the country. … Dixon, who grew up in North Hollywood, California, is a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild. In his early 20s, Dixon was in a Bud Light commercial. At 12, Dixon fired a space gun in a commercial for Mattel. At 10, he was the star of a TV commercial for Rice Krispies. At 5, he did a TV commercial for Volvo, sitting in the back seat of a car while his father, Jim Dixon, played the driver of the vehicle. … TCU has lost its last four games: 78-67 at Arkansas, 62-61 to Texas; 68-52 to Baylor and 72-57 Wednesday at Oklahoma State. TCU, which leads the Big 12 in three-point field goals made at 8.7 per game, was 4 of 19 from three Wednesday. … Kevin Samuel had six blocks in a recent loss to Baylor, which tied a career high.He has 137 blocks in his career, 60 this season … Desmond Bane has scored in double figures in 19 games this season. … … RJ Nembhard scored a career-high 31 points to lead TCU to an 81-79 overtime win against Iowa State on Jan. 4. Bane had 30 points vs. George Mason on Dec. 30. …
