Kansas Jayhawks basketball at Baylor: Lineups, tipoff time, TV, facts and figures
The details
When/where: 11 a.m. Saturday at Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
Projected starters
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Sr. 12.8
G 4 Isaiah Moss 6-5 Sr. 8.1
G 30 Ochai Agbaji 6-5 So. 10.3
G 0 Marcus Garrett 6-5 Jr. 9.6
G 1 Devon Dotson 6-2 So. 18.4
P No. Baylor Ht. Yr. PPG
F 33 Freddie Gillespie 6-9 Sr. 9.6
F 11 Mark Vital 6-5 Sr. 6.3
G 2 Devonte Bandoo 6-3 Sr. 7.8
G 12 Jared Butler 6-3 So. 15.6
G 45 Davion Mitchell 6-2 So. 9.8
ABOUT NO. 3 KANSAS (23-3, 12-1 Big 12): The Jayhawks, who have won 20 of their last 24 games against AP top-10 teams, are 0-2 against top-10 teams this season (Baylor, Duke). KU has won eight of its last nine true road games against top-10 foes. … KU is 8-16 all-time against the AP’s No. 1 team, but is 6-5 against No. 1-ranked foes since the 1989-90 season and 3-2 under Bill Self. ... This marks KU’s first true road game against No. 1 since March 10, 1958 when KU beat No. 1 Kansas State in Manhattan, 61-44. … KU’s most recent game against a No. 1-ranked squad was a 77-75 win over Duke in the 2016 Champions Classic in New York. ... KU since 2011 is 23-11 in games when both teams are ranked inside the top-10. … Kansas enters on an 11-game winning streak. Last loss was to Baylor, 67-55, on Jan. 11 in Allen Fieldhouse. Baylor had entered that first game against KU 0-16 in games played in the fieldhouse. … Kansas leads the all-time series against Baylor, 32-6. … KU is 13-3 versus BU in Ferrell Center. … The Jayhawks have won five of the last six games in Waco, Texas. KU won last season in Waco, 73-68. … Bill Self is 24-5 versus Baylor as KU coach. … Self is 703-214 in 27 seasons overall as a head coach (at KU, Illinois, Tulsa and Oral Roberts). His record at KU is 496-109 overall. … Kansas is 2,297-862 all-time… KU has shot 50% or better 10 times this season. … KU has won 12 or more conference games for the 20th consecutive season. … KU enters the Baylor game after making 23 threes in its last two games (12 versus ISU; 11 against Oklahoma). The 23 combined makes marked KU’s most in consecutive Big 12 games this season. … KU is 12-6 combined home and road with ESPN “GameDay” in town. ... Marcus Garrett has 57 assists against 18 turnovers the last 11 games. ... David McCormack has made his last 22 free throw attempts. It’s KU’s longest streak since Sherron Collins made 36 straight spanning the end of the 2007-08 and start of the 2008-09 season. … Devon Dotson has made his last 13 free throw tries. …
ABOUT NO. 1 BAYLOR (24-1, 13-0 Big 12): BU is trying to become the second team in the 17-year Bill Self era to sweep KU in a Big 12 regular-season series. In 115 regular-season Big 12 home-and-home series in the Self era, KU has 77 sweeps, 37 splits and has been swept once (Oklahoma State in 2018). … Baylor’s 23 game win streak is the longest streak in Big 12 history and in school history. KU won 22 in a row in 1996-97. … No. 1 Baylor is 27-7 all-time when playing as an AP top-5 team. Baylor is 10-1 when playing as the nation’s top-ranked team. … Baylor’s 13 conference wins are the most in program history. … Baylor is 6-3 against top-10 ranked teams in Waco over the last four seasons. BU’s top-10 home wins since 2016-17 include: No. 4 Oregon (Nov. 15, 2016), No. 7 Xavier (Dec. 3, 2016), No. 10 West Virginia (Feb. 27, 2017), No. 10 Kansas (Feb. 10, 2018), No. 7 Texas Tech (Feb. 17, 2018) and No. 8 Texas Tech (Jan. 19, 2019). ... BU’s five straight weeks as the AP No. 1 team ties the country’s longest streak since 2015 (Kentucky) and is the longest by a team from the state of Texas since Houston was No. 1 for the final eight weeks of 1968. … Baylor is 6-0 against AP top-25 teams . … Baylor has held five high-major opponents to their season-low scoring totals – Arizona (58), Butler (52), Texas (44), Texas Tech (52) and Kansas (55). BU has held 22 of 24 opponents below 70 points. … Baylor is 7-0 and KU 6-0 in Big 12 road games. … Baylor has defeated eight top-10 teams in the last four seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco. … Baylor’s 13-game Big 12 winning streak is the second longest conference-only streak in league history. KU went 16-0 in 2002 and 13-0 in 2010. …Scott Drew is 340-210 in 17 seasons at BU. He is 5-24 versus KU. ... Baylor is 215-94 over the last nine seasons, averaging 24 wins per season. … Jared Butler has started 44 consecutive games. He has led BU in scoring in 14 games. He’s scored 20 or more points in a game seven times this season and hit at least five threes in four games. … Freddie Gillespie has had 10 or more boards 13 times this season.
