Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball vs. Baylor Bears: Lineups, time, TV, facts

The details

When/where: 7 p.m. Saturday at Ferrell Center, Waco, Texas.

TV/radio: ESPN/WHB (810 AM)

About No. 5 Kansas (23-4, 12-2 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series with Baylor, 35-7. The Jayhawks have won five of the last seven games and 16 of 19 in the series. … The Jayhawks won the first meeting between the teams this season, 83-59, on Feb. 5 at Allen Fieldhouse. Christian Braun scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Ochai Agbaji had 18 points and nine boards and Jalen Wilson 15 points and seven boards for KU. Adam Flagler scored 16 points and Kendall Brown 12 for Baylor. ... KU is 14-4 vs. Baylor at Ferrell Center. KU is 2-2 in the last four meetings in Waco. ... The two teams have split the season series the past two seasons and three times in four years. ... KU handed the Bears their first loss of the season (after 18 victories) a year ago, 71-58, on Feb. 27, 2021 at Allen. … Bill Self is 27-6 versus Baylor as KU coach. … KU has 23 wins for the 32nd time in the last 33 seasons, a streak which started during the 1989-90 season. … KU has 12 league wins for the 22nd consecutive season. … Self is 752-227 all-time, including 545-122 while at Kansas. … Kansas is 19-1 when leading at the half. … Ochai Agbaji has 1,444 career points which puts him at 26th on the all-time KU scoring list. His 224 career three-point field goals have him at seventh on the all-time KU list. … Agbaji has scored in double figures in the 26 games he’s played in this season, tying Wayne Simien’s 2004-05 season for the longest single-season streak in the Self era. Agbaji has scored at least 20 points in 15 games this season and 22 times in his career. … Christian Braun has scored 20+ points in five games this season and eight times in his career. … Jalen Wilson has scored in double figures 12 times this season — 10 times in the last 12 games.

About No. 10 Baylor (23-5, 11-4 Big 12): This is the eighth top-10 matchup in Ferrell Center history. BU is 3-4 in those games. ... Baylor is 9-1 against top-10 ranked teams over the last two years, beating Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1, 6 and 8. ... BU is 8-4 in home games against top-10 teams over the last six seasons (6-26 prior to 2016-17). ... BU is 3-1 against top-5 ranked teams over the last three seasons (7-45 in program history prior to 2020). ... Baylor has taken a lead in 114-consecutive games (last wire-to-wire loss Dec. 1, 2018 at Wichita State). ... Baylor is No. 5 overall in the NCAA top 16 bracket release revealed last Saturday. … Six of Baylor’s rotation players have dealt with injuries this season. Langston Love and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua are out for the year, while James Akinjo, Adam Flagler, Jeremy Sochan and LJ Cryer have all missed time. … BU has reached double-digit Big 12 wins for the seventh time in the last eight seasons. ... Baylor is on a school-record streak of 44-straight weeks ranked in the AP top ten. … Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008. … Ten of Baylor’s 11 starting point guards under coach Scott Drew have earned all-Big 12 recognition (16 of last 17 seasons). … Drew is 6-27 versus KU. … Three Bears players average double digits in points for the season: Flagler (13.7 ppg), Cryer (13.5 ppg) and Akinjo (12.9 ppg). … Flagler has made 63 of 156 threes (.404) and Cryer 52 of 111 (.468). … BU’s leading rebounder is Tchamwa Tchatchoua (6.8 rpg), followed by Sochan (6.2). … Akinjo has 149 assists, 81 turnovers. He leads the team in steals with 55. … BU averages 77.1 ppg while allowing 63.0. Opponents are making 42.5% of their shots. The Bears are shooting at a 46.7% clip.

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Gary Bedore

The Kansas City Star

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Gary Bedore covers KU basketball for The Kansas City Star. He has written about the Jayhawks since 1978 — during the Ted Owens, Larry Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self eras. He has won the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year award and KPA writing awards.