KU basketball vs. West Virginia: Lineups, tipoff time, TV info, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 6 p.m. Central time Wednesday at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, West Virginia
TV/radio: The game will be live streamed on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (subscription required); WHB (810 AM)
Projected lineups
P No. West Virginia Ht. Yr. PPG
F 1 Derek Culver 6-10 So. 10.8
F 11 Emmitt Matthews 6-7 So. 6.9
F 34 Oscar Tshiebwe 6-9 Fr. 11.5
G 10 Jermaine Haley 6-7 Sr. 9.4
G 5 Jordan McCabe 6-0 So. 3.2
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 13.0
G 2 Christian Braun 6-6 Fr. 5.0
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.3
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.2
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.0
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (20-3, 9-1 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series against West Virginia, 13-5. KU won the last meeting, 60-53, on Jan. 4 in Lawrence. KU is 2-5 at WVU Coliseum. The Jayhawks have won seven of the last eight meetings. However WVU has won five of the last six meetings at home vs. KU. … The Jayhawks lost last year in Morgantown, 65-64. … KU has held opponents to 60 points or less 13 times this season, going 12-1 in those matchups. KU is 180-2 in games coached by Bill Self when holding teams to 60 points or less… KU has held 14 of its 23 opponents to shooting of 40% or less. KU has held 15 foes to 30% shooting or less from beyond the three-point arc. … KU is 9-1 in the Big 12 for the first time since the 2013-14 season and the sixth time in the 17-year Self era. … Kansas is 6-1 in true road games. The Jayhawks have won six straight road games and are 10-2 in games not played in Allen Fieldhouse. … Kansas is 2,294-862 all-time. … Self is 700-214 in 27 seasons as a head coach and 493-109 at KU. ... Self is 13-5 versus West Virginia. ... Senior Udoka Azubuike has 10 double-doubles this season and 17 in his career. … Azubuike on Saturday at TCU became the sixth Big 12 player to post at least 20 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks in a conference game. Nick Collison was the last KU player to go for 20, 15 and 5. He had 24 points, 16 rebounds and seven blocks versus Oklahoma State on March 1, 2003. … Marcus Garrett has 40 assists to 10 turnovers In his last eight games.
ABOUT NO. 14 WEST VIRGINIA (18-5, 6-4 Big 12): Oklahoma snapped West Virginia’s two-game winning streak, 69-59, on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma. … Bob Huggins is 878-366 in 38 seasons as a college head basketball coach. He’s seventh on the all-time NCAA Division I win list. He needs one more win to tie Dean Smith for sixth place all-time. … Huggins is 5-17 all-time vs. KU; he’s 5-13 vs. KU as WVU coach. … Huggins is 82-70 in Big 12 Conference games. He is 72-64 at WVU, and was 10-6 at Kansas State in 2006-07. … Huggins has wins over 48 AP-ranked teams at WVU, including 18 wins over Top 10 teams and three over No. 1. … West Virginia is 156-42 at WVU Coliseum under Huggins, including a 78-35 mark in league games. … WVU held Oklahoma State to 41 points in a 55-41 Mountaineer victory on Jan. 6, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Oklahoma State’s 41 points marked the lowest point total by a WVU conference opponent in the opponent’s arena in WVU history. The 41 points scored marked the lowest by an opponent in its home arena since Navy scored 37 against WVU in 1948. … WVU leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage defense (37.0%). KU leads the league in FG percentage (48.6%.) ... Oscar Tshiebwe has been named Big 12 newcomer of the week three times his freshman season. WVU’s Miles McBride has been named Big 12 newcomer of the week twice.
