Kansas Jayhawks vs. West Virginia men’s basketball: Lineups, time, TV, facts
The details
When/where: 7 p.m. Central time Saturday at WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, West Virginia.
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
About No. 6 Kansas (21-4, 10-2 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series versus the Mountaineers 16-6. KU’s Bill Self and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins have coached in each of those games. … KU, which went 1-1 versus West Virginia in 2020-21, has won six of the last seven and 10 of the last 12 in the series. … KU is 3-6 at WVU Coliseum with two wins in the last four tries in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Jayhawks dropped last year’s game at WVU, 91-79. … KU needed overtime to beat WVU in Lawrence in the 2014-15 and 2016-17 campaigns. … The Jayhawks defeated WVU, 85-59, on Jan. 15 at Allen Fieldhouse. Jalen Wilson scored 23 points with eight rebounds and five assists. Ochai Agbaji had 20 points and seven boards and David McCormack 19 points and 15 boards. Malik Curry came off the bench to score 23 for WVU. KU had 23 assists to WVU’s five. … KU has won 21 games for the 33rd consecutive season, a streak which started in 1989-90, and is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. ... KU has 10 league wins for the 28th consecutive season, a streak which started in 1994-95 and is the longest active streak in Div. I hoops. ... Self is 750-227 all-time, including 543-122 while at Kansas. ... Kansas is 17-1 when leading at the half. ... KU has secured 10+ offensive rebounds in 15 games. ... Agbaji has 1,398 career points which puts him at 27th on the all-time KU scoring list. His 217 career three-point field goals have him at seventh on the all-time KU list.. ... Christian Braun has scored in double figures in 23 of 25 games.
About West Virginia (14-11, 3-9 Big 12): WVU squandered a 10-point second-half lead and lost to Kansas State, 78-73, on Monday night in Manhattan. Taz Sherman led the way with a game-high 23 points on 7-of-15 shooting. He scored 15 points in the first half. … Overall, the Mountaineers are 1-9 in their last 10 games. … WVU’s main threats from beyond the arc are Sherman, who is 47-for-137 (34.3%) and Sean McNeil, who is 46-of-116 (39.7%). Jalen Bridges is 30-of-93 (32.3%). … For the year, WVU averages 68.3 point per game and allows 66.9 ppg. … It was announced on Dec. 20 that WVU coach Huggins is eligible for the 2022 class of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Future inductees will be announced at the Final Four. ... With a win against Clemson on Nov. 21, Huggins moved past Roy Williams for fourth place on the NCAA all-time Division I winningest coaches list. Huggins’ record now stands at 914-392 in his 40th season as a head coach. He needs six more wins to tie Jim Calhoun for third place all-time. ... Huggins is the third-winningest active coach behind Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim. … Huggins is 99-90 in Big 12 Conference games. He is 89-84 at WVU, and was 10-6 at Kansas State in 2006-07. … WVU in 2020-21 made its 10th NCAA Tournament appearance in 14 years and 12th appearance in the last 17 seasons. WVU has made 16 postseason appearances in the last 18 years, including the NCAA Final Four in 2010. … This season, WVU has seven seniors on the roster, including five who are in their fifth year of eligibility due to COVID-19.
Projected lineups
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 33 | David McCormack | 6-10 | Sr. | 9.4 |
F | 10 | Jalen Wilson | 6-8 | So. | 10.5 |
G | 30 | Ochai Agbaji | 6-5 | Sr. | 19.9 |
G | 2 | Christian Braun | 6-6 | Jr. | 15.3 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | So. | 5.8 |
P | No. | West Virginia | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 11 | Jalen Bridges | 6-7 | So. | 9.2 |
F | 13 | Isaiah Cottrell | 6-10 | Fr. | 4.1 |
G | 12 | Taz Sherman | 6-4 | Sr. | 18.6 |
G | 22 | Sean McNeil | 6-3 | Sr. | 13.0 |
G | 0 | Kedrian Johnson | 6-3 | Sr. | 5.3 |
