Kansas Jayhawks vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders in Big 12 Tournament final: Time, TV
The details
When/where: 5 p.m. Saturday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City
TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM)
About No. 1 seed and No. 6 ranked Kansas (27-6): Kansas has defeated West Virginia, 87-63, and TCU, 75-62, in its first two games of the 2022 Big 12 Tournament. … KU has won four of five against Texas Tech. The Jayhawks had a four-game winning streak against the Red Raiders snapped on Jan. 8 in Lubbock, Texas. The Red Raiders, who were playing without regular starters Terrence Shannon and Kevin McCullar, won, 75-67. Ochai Agbaji had 24 points and Jalen Wilson 20 for KU; Bryson Williams scored 22 points and Clarence Nadolny 17 for Texas Tech. KU won the rematch, 94-91, in two overtimes on Jan. 24 at Allen Fieldhouse. Agbaji had 37 points and seven rebounds. He hit 13 of 23 shots and was 7 of 12 from three. Christian Braun had 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists. Williams had 33 points on 14-of-19 (4 of 4 on threes) shooting for Texas Tech. … KU has won seven of the past nine meetings and leads the all-time series 40-7. … Bill Self’s KU teams are 26-6 versus Tech. … KU is 5-1 in neutral-site games this season. … The Jayhawks are 15-6 in Big 12 tourney semifinals. … KU has advanced to the conference tournament finals for the 15th time in Big 12 history and 23rd time overall … KU is 79-28 in league tournament play and 49-12 at the Big 12 tourney. … KU is 45-10 all-time at the T-Mobile Center, including 3-0 this season … Self is 755-229 all-time, 549-124 at Kansas and 44-12 all-time in league tournaments (35-8 at Kansas). … Kansas has won 15 conference tournament championships, including 11 in the Big 12. The Jayhawks last won the event in 2018, also at T-Mobile Center. KU is 11-3 in the finals of conference tourneys. …
About No. 3 seed and No. 14 ranked Texas Tech (25-8): Texas Tech has defeated Iowa State, 72-41, and Oklahoma, 56-55, in its first two games in the 2022 Big 12 Tournament. … Texas Tech went 18-0 at home this season under Mark Adams, the Big 12 Coach of the Year. The Red Raiders were just 5-8 away from home prior to the Big 12 tourney. … Tech entered the Big 12 tourney having lost two of its final three regular-season games. …The Red Raiders are making their 25th Big 12 Tournament appearance in program history and are 16-24 all-time in the tournament. … Tech has never won the Big 12 tournament, but has made the finals one time and the semifinals five times. Tech has lost its opening-round game the past two tournaments, including a 67-66 loss in the quarterfinals to Texas last season. … During nonconference play, Tech defeated North Florida, Grambling State, Prairie View A&M, Incarnate Word, Omaha, Lamar, Tennessee, Arkansas State, Eastern Washington and Alabama State and lost to Providence and Gonzaga. … Tech has 27 wins over top-10 teams in program history. … Texas Tech won its only Big 12 regular-season championship in 2019 by going 14-4 in conference play — finishing with a win at Iowa State to secure the title. … Adams is in his first season as the head coach at Texas Tech after working as the associate head coach for the program for five seasons. .., Adams led Howard College to the 2010 NJCAA national championship and Wayland Baptist to the 1985 NAIA national championship final with a runner-up finish.
Projected lineups
P | No. | Texas Tech | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 11 | Bryson Williams | 6-8 | Sr. | 13.8 |
F | 0 | Kevin Obanor | 6-8 | Sr. | 9.8 |
G | 1 | Terrence Shannon | 6-6 | Jr. | 10.6 |
G | 25 | Adonis Arms | 6-5 | Sr. | 8.5 |
G | 2 | Davion Warren | 6-6 | Sr. | 10.1 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 33 | David McCormack | 6-10 | Sr. | 9.9 |
F | 10 | Jalen Wilson | 6-8 | So. | 10.9 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | So. | 5.3 |
G | 2 | Christian Braun | 6-7 | Jr. | 14.6 |
G | 30 | Ochai Agbaji | 6-5 | Sr. | 19.8 |
