Kansas Jayhawks basketball vs. Dayton: Lineups, TV, tipoff, facts and figures
THE DETAILS
When/where: 12:30 p.m. Central time, Friday, HP Field House, Kissimmee, Florida.
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
PROJECTED LINEUPS
P | No. | Dayton | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 15 | DaRon Holmes | 6-10 | Fr. | 8.8 |
F | 2 | Toumani Camara | 6-8 | So. | 10.2 |
G | 11 | Malachi Smith | 6-0 | Fr. | 7.8 |
G | 23 | R.J. Blakney | 6-6 | Fr. | 6.2 |
G | 0 | Elijah Weaver | 6-6 | Jr. | 10.2 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 33 | David McCormack | 6-10 | Sr. | 7.8 |
G | 2 | Christian Braun | 6-6 | Jr. | 12.0 |
G | 30 | Ochai Agbaji | 6-5 | Sr. | 24.3 |
G | 11 | Remy Martin | 6-0 | Sr. | 11.0 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | So. | 3.0 |
About Dayton (2-3): DaRon Holmes scored 15 points while Elijah Weaver and Malachi Smith had 14 apiece in the Flyers’ 76-60 first-round ESPN Events Invitational victory over Miami on Thursday. Weaver is a transfer from USC. Dayton’s defense held Miami to 13 points the first 10 minutes on 29% shooting. Miami was held scoreless for a 5:19 stretch in which the Hurricanes missed eight straight shots. Former KU guard Charlie Moore of Miami scored two points on 1-of-7 shooting. He was 0-for-4 from three with three steals, two assists and a turnovers. … Anthony Grant is 80-45 in five years at Dayton. … Dayton has defeated UIC (64-54) and Miami and lost to UMass-Lowell (59-58), Lipscomb (78-59) and Austin Peay (87-81). … Dayton won the ESPN Events Invitational in 2011 and placed second in 2015. … The Flyers were picked to finish fifth in the 14-team Atlantic 10. … Forwards Toumani Camara and Mustapha Amzil were both named to the A-10’s preseson all-league third team. … Camara is a transfer from the University of Georgia. … All Dayton home games are sold out this season.
About No. 4 Kansas (4-0): Kansas is 2-1 all-time versus Dayton. The teams last met in the 2019 Maui Invitational final. Devon Dotson scored 31 points and Udoka Azubuike 29 points in then-No. 4-ranked KU’s 90-84 overtime victory over the Obi Toppin-led Flyers. Toppin scored 18 points for Dayton, which went 16-of-33 from three. … KU is 4-0 for the eighth time in head coach Bill Self’s 19 seasons at KU. … The Jayhawks are 4-0 all-time in the ESPN Events Invitational. … Bill Self is 526-118 as KU coach. …KU hit 51.0% (26-of-51) of its shots in a first-round win over North Texas, its third straight game shooting at least 50%. The last time the Jayhawks shot 50% or better in three consecutive games was during the 2019-20 season (four straight contests). … Senior Ochai Agbaji passed the 1,000 career scoring mark versus North Texas. His 18 points upped his career total to 1,017. Agbaji is the 63rd player in KU history to reach the 1,000-point mark and the 17th player under Bill Self. Agbaji has started 81 straight games. … Sophomore Christian Braun passed the 500 career point mark when he hit a three-point basket with 16:11 remaining in the first half.
