KU Jayhawks men’s basketball vs. Tarleton State: Lineups, TV, time, facts & figures
THE DETAILS
When/where: 7 p.m. Friday, Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence
TV/radio: ESPN+ (streaming only, subscription required); WHB (810 AM)
PROJECTED LINEUPS
P | No. | Tarleton State | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 32 | Jonathan Jackson | 6-6 | Sr. | 8.0 |
F/G | 2 | Freddy Hicks | 6-6 | Soph. | 6.0 |
G | 11 | Montre Gipson | 5-11 | Sr. | 15.0 |
G | 3 | Shamir Bogues | 6-4 | Soph. | 0.0 |
G | 13 | Shakur Daniel | 6-6 | Sr. | 10.0 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 33 | David McCormack | 6-10 | Sr. | 10.0 |
G | 2 | Christian Braun | 6-6 | Jr. | 6.0 |
G | 30 | Ochai Agbaji | 6-5 | Sr. | 29.0 |
G | 11 | Remy Martin | 6-0 | Sr. | 15.0 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | Soph. | 6.0 |
About Tarleton State (0-1): Tarleton State fell to Stanford, 62-50, in the regular-season opener for both teams Tuesday in Palo Alto, California. Tarleton State led by seven points with 15 minutes remaining. Montre Gipson, a 5-11 senior, scored 15 points and dished four assists. It marked his 14th double-digit scoring game. … Six of Tarleton’s first seven games are on the road. Tarleton travels to Wichita State on Tuesday then plays at North Dakota State (Nov. 22), Michigan (Nov. 24) and Gonzaga (Nov. 29). … Tarleton returns eight letter winners from the school’s inaugural Div. I squad, including reigning WAC freshman of the year Freddy Hicks and 2021-22 preseason All-WAC first-team selection Montre Gipson. … Second-year Texans coach Billy Gillispie, a former assistant on Bill Self’s coaching staffs at Tulsa and Illinois, is 10-11 at Tarleton State and 158-119 overall at the Div. I level. He’s also been head coach at Kentucky, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and UTEP. He went 103-62 in five seasons at Ranger Junior College before taking the Tarleton job last season. … Tarleton has 20 players on the roster, including four preferred walk-ons. … After starting conference play with five straight defeats in 2020-21, Tarleton won five of its last seven games vs. WAC foes. … Tarleton has never defeated a Power Five Conference opponent in any sport. … The Texans led for 28 minutes against Texas A&M in former A&M coach Gillispie’s return to College Station last season and led by as many as 10 points in the second half of an eventual 73-66 loss. … The Texans had nine games canceled in 2020-21, including games at KU and Baylor, because of the pandemic.
About No. 3 Kansas (1-0): KU has won 48-straight home openers beginning in 1973-74 under head coach Ted Owens. Self’s KU teams are 18-0 in home openers. Larry Brown (5-0) and Roy Williams (15-0) also never lost a home opener at KU … Kansas will be playing Tarleton State for the first time in men’s basketball. … KU is trying to open 2-0 for the 10th time in Self’s 19 seasons at KU … KU is 277-15 in Allen Fieldhouse during the Self era and 815-115 all-time in the venue ... Self is 730-223 all-time, including 523-118 while at Kansas ... KU sophomore wing Jalen Wilson, is serving the second game of a three-game suspension and will not play. … KU hit 79.2% (19-of-24) of its free throws in an 87-74 season-opening win over Michigan State on Tuesday. That is the highest free throw percentage in a season opener since KU hit 85.7% (24-of-28) of its free throws versus Southeast Missouri on Nov. 9, 2012. … Ochai Agbaji (29 points vs. MSU) has scored at least 20 points in eight games. … KU has had 319 consecutive sellouts in Allen Fieldhouse, dating to 2001-02. This includes the 2,500 capacity for 2020-21. ... Kansas went 11-1 in Allen Fieldhouse in 2020-21. KU has won 10 or more home games for 38 consecutive seasons, beginning in 1983-84, and 12 or more each of the last 22 seasons beginning in 1999-2000.
