KU Jayhawks vs. Duke Blue Devils basketball: Probable starters, tipoff, TV, notes
Kansas men’s basketball will put its perfect 5-0 record on the line against 4-1 Duke on Tuesday in the 2024 Vegas Showdown in Las Vegas.
Tipoff is 8 p.m. Central at T-Mobile Arena. Furman will meet Seattle at 10:30 p.m. in the second-game of Tuesday’s twinbill.
Here what to know before tipoff...
KU basketball vs. Duke: Game details
When: 8 p.m. Central, Tuesday
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
TV: ESPN
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.
Betting line: Duke -2.5 (see The Star’s game prediction)
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Duke | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F/G | 7 | Kon Knueppel | 6-7 | Fr. | 14.4 |
F/G | 2 | Cooper Flagg | 6-9 | Fr. | 17.8 |
C | 9 | Khaman Maluach | 7-2 | Fr. | 9.2 |
G | 1 | Caleb Foster | 6-5 | Soph. | 9.4 |
G | 5 | Tyrese Proctor | 6-6 | Jr. | 11.8 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Sr. | 8.6 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 17.8 |
G | 8 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 12.6 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 9.2 |
G | 6 | Rylan Griffen | 6-6 | Jr. | 7.8 |
About No. 11 Duke (4-1)
Duke defeated then-No. 17 (current No. 24) ranked Arizona, 69-55, on Friday night in Tucson, Arizona. Freshman phenom Cooper Flagg had 24 points on 10-of-22 shooting, with six rebounds, three assists and two blocks for the Blue Devils, who went 10-of-26 from 3. Duke held Zona to 39.6% shooting. … Duke also this season has lost to Kentucky, 77-72, at the Champions Classic and defeated Maine, 96-62; Army West Point, 100-58 and Wofford, 86-35, in Durham, North Carolina. …
Jon Scheyer is 58-19 in three seasons at Duke. He is 0-1 versus KU. … Duke returns two starters from last season’s Elite Eight squad, junior Tyrese Proctor and sophomore Caleb Foster, while also signing the country’s top-ranked recruiting class and also adding four transfers … Duke’s six-player freshman class includes five top-25 players in the 247Sports rankings (Flagg, Isaiah Evans, Kon Knueppel, Patrick Ngongba and Khaman Maluach). … In the transfer portal, Duke added Sion James (Tulane), Maliq Brown (Syracuse), Mason Gillis (Purdue) and Cameron Sheffield (Rice). …
During a six-game stretch (Nov. 12-Dec. 4), Duke faces four teams that were ranked in the AP preseason top 25 (Kansas, Arizona, Auburn and Kentucky) and were at least a 4-seed in last season’s NCAA Tournament. …Duke averages 84.6 points per game and has a plus-27.2 scoring margin. The Blue Devils average 44.0 rebounds per contest with a plus-11.8 rebound margin. Duke makes 47.0% of its field goals and its 34.7 field goal percentage defense is eighth nationally. Duke also averages 17.4 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.4 blocked shots per game.
About No. 1 Kansas (5-0)
Kansas ranks second with 2,398 all-time victories, while Duke is fourth at 2,304. … . KU has won at least seven games versus ranked opponents in each of the last four seasons and is 128-77 against ranked opponents in the Bill Self era. … KU is 6-8 all-time against Duke. The Jayhawks won the last meeting, 69-64 on November 15, 2022 in Indianapolis. …
Tuesday marks the eighth straight meeting between Duke and Kansas with both teams ranked inside the Top 25. … The last four games in the series have been decided by a total of 13 points and there has only been one double-digit margin of victory in the last nine games. … The two teams have traded wins in the last two meetings, with Kansas most recently claiming a 69-64 victory in the 2022 Champions Classic. ...
Kansas is 5-0 for the first time since the 2022-23 season and the ninth time in Self’s 22 seasons at KU. … KU has scored 40 or more points in the paint for four consecutive games. The last time Kansas had a stretch of four consecutive games with 40+ paint points was against NC Central (48), Manhattan College (50), Kentucky (42) and Chaminade (58) to start the 2023-24 season. … KU has held all five opponents under 50% shooting. … Kansas has forced double-digit turnovers in five straight games. … Kansas held UNCW to four assists Tuesday night. The last time the Jayhawks held a team to four assists was Dec. 11, 2020 against Omaha. …
Dajuan Harris has opened the season with 26 assists to seven turnovers. Harris has led the team in scoring in one game this season (17 vs. UNCW) and four times in his career. … Hunter Dickinson has had 10 or more rebounds 21 times as a Jayhawk. … He has 51 double doubles in his career and 20 times as a KU player. … David Coit (13 points vs. UNCW) has scored in double figures 51 times in his career, once at KU.
