Kansas Jayhawks will meet Kentucky Wildcats at Rupp Arena in 2023 SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Kansas, which passed Kentucky last season to become the winningest program in college basketball history, will meet the Wildcats in an SEC/Big 12 Challenge game on Saturday, Jan. 28, at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, it was announced Thursday.
The two teams played a year ago in Lawrence. Kentucky, which has 2,353 all-time wins to KU’s 2,357, defeated the eventual national champion Jayhawks 80-62 on Jan. 29 at Allen.
Florida will travel to Kansas State and Iowa State will travel to Missouri in the Challenge on Jan. 28.
Also, it’ll be Texas Tech at LSU, Arkansas at Baylor, Texas at Tennessee, TCU at Mississippi State, Alabama at Oklahoma, Auburn at West Virginia and Mississippi at Oklahoma State.
Kansas is 5-4 in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The Jayhawks, who are 7-5 versus Kentucky in the Bill Self era, are 10-24 all-time against the Wildcats. KU has won four of the last six meetings. The teams are 2-2 in SEC/Big 12 Challenge meetings.
KU next season will play Seton Hall on Dec. 1 at Allen Fieldhouse in the Big 12 Challenge series against the Big East. KU also will play Duke in the Champions Classic on Nov. 15 in Indianapolis and play in the Battle4Atlantis Nov. 23-25 against a field of Wisconsin, Tennessee, USC, North Carolina State, Butler, BYU and Dayton.
KU will also travel to Missouri next season.
Big 12 teams are 48-41 (.539) in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The Big 12 has a yearly Challenge record of 4-3-2 with wins in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. One game was canceled in 2021 because of COVID. Ties occurred in 2017 and 2020.
