Oklahoma Sooners vs. Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball: Lineups, tipoff, TV, facts
The details
When/where: Noon Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas
TV/radio: CBS; WHB (810 AM)
About Oklahoma (14-10, 4-7 Big 12): Oklahoma senior Umoja Gibson went 8-of-11 from three and scored a season-high 30 points in OU’s 70-55 victory over No 9-ranked Texas Tech on Wednesday in Norman, Oklahoma. Elijah Harkless scored 13 points for the Sooners, who held the Red Raiders to 39.6% shooting. Texas Tech went 2-of-17 from three. Rallying from a five-point halftime deficit, OU snapped its three-game losing streak. ... The Sooners, who are 2-7 in their last nine games, are still in the running for an NCAA bid following that win over Texas Tech. OU entered the game with a NET ranking of 39 with three ranked teams to play in the next four contests. … OU has four wins this season against teams ranked at the time in the top 15 of the Associated Press poll. … Jalen Hill is shooting 59.8% (73-122) from the field.. … First-year OU coach Porter Moser claimed his 300th career victory when the Sooners beat Florida on Dec. 1. He’s 307-252 in 18 years as a head coach. … Oklahoma is one of 20 NCAA Division I programs with a father-son, coach-player combination (Porter Moser and freshman guard Jake Moser) and the only such combo in the Big 12. … Oklahoma is one of 16 NCAA Division I teams that have two brothers (Tanner and Jacob Groves) on the team. The Sooners have had three pairs of brothers play on the same team — Groves brothers, Wayman and William Tisdale, and Blake and Taylor Griffin.
About No. 8 Kansas (19-4, 8-2 Big 12): KU has won seven of the last nine games, 11 of 14, 14 of 18 and 24 of 29 against Oklahoma. The Jayhawks lead the all-time series, 153-69. . … Bill Self is 25-6 against OU as KU coach. … KU is 78-16 against OU in Lawrence and 51-7 at Allen Fieldhouse. ... KU has won 20 consecutive games versus OU at Allen. KU is 14-0 vs. OU in Allen in the 19-year Self era. ... KU’s longest win streak against an opponent in Allen is 30 games versus Colorado. The Buffs last played in Lawrence in 2019. ... KU defeated OU, 67-64, on Jan. 18 at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Jalen Wilson had 16 points and Christian Braun 15 for KU while Mitch Lightfoot had nine points and six rebounds; Jordan Goldwire had 15 points for OU. Braun hit the go-ahead three with 10.9 seconds left. The Sooners were 4-of-17 from three. KU was 8-of-17. … KU is 4-3 against ranked opponents. … KU is 106-15 following a loss in the Self era. ... KU is trying to win its 20th game for the 33rd straight season. ... Self is 748-227 all-time, including 541-122 while at Kansas. … Kansas fell to Texas, 79-76, on Monday at Texas despite shooting 58.3% (28-of-48). That is the highest shooting percentage on the road since KU shot 64.0% (32-of-50) at Texas on Feb. 29, 2016. The Jayhawks have shot 50.0% or better in 12 games. … Kansas had had four players score in double figures in three conference games. … Jalen Wilson has two double-doubles. He has scored in double figures eight times — six times in the last eight games. … Senior Ochai Agbaji has 1,367 career points which puts him at 30th on the all-time KU scoring list. His 214 career three-point field goals have him at seventh on the all-time KU list.
Projected lineups
P | No. | Oklahoma | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 1 | Jalen Hill | 6-6 | Jr. | 8.5 |
F | 35 | Tanner Groves | 6-10 | Sr. | 12.7 |
G | 55 | Elijah Harkless | 6-3 | Sr. | 9.6 |
G | 2 | Umoja Gibson | 6-1 | Sr. | 12.8 |
G | 0 | Jordan Goldwire | 6-3 | Sr. | 9.5 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 33 | David McCormack | 6-10 | Sr. | 9.3 |
F | 10 | Jalen Wilson | 6-8 | So. | 9.9 |
G | 30 | Ochai Agbaji | 6-5 | Sr. | 20.3 |
G | 2 | Christian Braun | 6-7 | Jr. | 15.1 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | So. | 5.6 |
