KU Jayhawks at West Virginia Mountaineers: Probable starters, tipoff, streaming, notes
THE DETAILS
When/where: 3 p.m., Central time, Saturday, WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Streaming: Big 12 Now/ESPN+
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 19.3 |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Jr. | 12.8 |
G | 15 | Kevin McCullar | 6-7 | Sr. | 19.8 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 7.2 |
G | 10 | Johnny Furphy | 6-9 | Fr. | 6.3 |
P | No. | West Virginia | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 22 | Josiah Harris | 6-7 | Soph. | 5.1 |
F | 24 | Patrick Suemnick | 6-8 | Jr. | 4.4 |
G | 21 | RaeQuan Battle | 6-5 | Sr. | 19.0 |
G | 2 | Kobe Johnson | 6-3 | Jr. | 7.3 |
G | 3 | Kerr Kriisa | 6-3 | Sr. | 9.5 |
About No. 3 Kansas (15-2, 3-1): KU leads the all-time series 19-6. The Jayhawks have won six in a row and 11 of 12 in the series. … KU is 5-6 in WVU Coliseum. The Jayhawks have won two in a row in Morgantown. … Bill Self is 19-6 against WVU as KU coach. … KU is 15-2 or better for the third-straight season. … KU is 3-1 or better in Big 12 play for the 20th time in Self’s 21 seasons at Kansas. … KU is 2-1 in true road games and 6-2 in games not played in Allen Fieldhouse. … Self is 580-134 while at Kansas, 787-239 overall. … Kansas shot 62.1% in Tuesday’s 90-66 win at Oklahoma State for its best shooting percentage in a game on the road since Feb. 29, 2016 at Texas (64.0%). … KU’s 36 made field goals at OSU were the Jayhawks’ most on the road in a conference game since an overtime win on Feb. 25, 2013 at Iowa State (37 field goals made). It marked the most field goals by KU in a conference game on the road in regulation since Feb. 1, 2011 at Texas Tech (36 field goals made). … Kansas has at least 20 assists in nine games. ... Hunter Dickinson has eight 20-point games which leads the Big 12 Conference. … Kevin McCullar has scored in double figures in each of Kansas’ 17 games. … Dajuan Harris is ninth on Kansas’ all-time career steal list with 189.
About West Virginia (6-11, 1-3): West Virginia has lost Big 12 games to Houston (89-55), Kansas State (81-67) and Oklahoma (77-63) and defeated Texas (76-73). … WVU is 6-5 at WVU Coliseum. … The Mountaineers have won 109 of their last 164 conference games at WVU Coliseum. … Interim head coach Josh Eilert, a native of Osborne, Kansas, is a 2004 graduate of Kansas State. He played two seasons at K-State where he earned a master’s degree in 2007. He was a graduate assistant for the Wildcats in 2006-07. … Eilert is in his first season as a head coach. He has spent the last 17 seasons on the Mountaineer basketball staff. … Fifth-year senior RaeQuan Battle made his season debut against Radford on Dec. 20. He started and scored 29 points. It was the most points ever scored by a WVU player in his Mountaineer debut. Battle followed that with 29 points against Toledo. He had his first career double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds against Ohio State. … Battle missed the first nine games until second-time transfers were ruled immediately eligible by a federal judge. … Kerr Kriisa missed the first nine games because of an NCAA suspension for improper benefits while enrolled at Arizona. … Akok Akok missed the first seven games with a medical issue. … Noah Farrakhan was slated to redshirt and missed the first nine games until the transfer rule was changed in federal court. … The Mountaineers were predicted to finish ninth out of 14 teams in the preseason coaches’ poll. ...WVU averages 67.6 points a game and allows 72.0 points. ... WVU has made 107 of 353 3s for 30.3%. Opponents have made 140 of 412 3s for 34%.. ... Kriisa has made 19 of 52 3s for 36.5%.
