Kansas Jayhawks vs. Utah Utes in basketball: Saturday’s probable starters, TV, tip time
The Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball team is in Salt Lake City to take on the Utah Utes in a Big 12 Conference game that tips off at 9 p.m. Saturday.
The game will be played at the Huntsman Center, which seats 15,000 fans. Here’s more to know about this matchup:
THE DETAILS
When/where: 9 p.m. Saturday, Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City
TV: ESPN
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Sr. | 8.5 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 16.6 |
G | 5 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 15.0 |
G | 6 | Rylan Griffen | 6-3 | Jr. | 6.6 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 9.6 |
P | No. | Utah | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 2 | Ezra Ausar | 6-8 | Jr. | 11.0 |
F | 10 | Jake Wahlin | 6-10 | Soph. | 6.1 |
C | 34 | Lawson Lovering | 7-1 | Sr. | 8.9 |
G | 55 | Gabe Madsen | 6-6 | Sr. | 15.3 |
G | 25 | Mike Sharavjamts | 6-9 | Jr. | 6.9 |
About No. 17 Kansas (17-7, 8-5): KU leads the all-time series, 2-0, with both games played in Kansas City. KU prevailed, 63-60, on Dec. 13, 2014 and won, 79-68, on Nov. 25, 1995. … Bill Self is 1-0 vs. the Utes as KU coach. … Bill Self is 605-150 while at Kansas and 812-255 all-time. … Kansas held Colorado to 59 points on Tuesday, which marked the ninth time KU has held an opponent under 60 points, five times in the conference season. KU is 9-0 in those matchups. … KU is 218-2 in the Bill Self era when holding opponents under 60 points. … The Jayhawks are 16-1 when they record a higher field goal percentage than opponents. … Hunter Dickinson scored his 2,600th career point in Tuesday’s win over Colorado. Dickinson has 2,607 points for his career, which ranks 43rd on the NCAA all-time career scoring list. … He has scored 20 or more points eight times this season. ... Dickinson is the only active player in Div. I to have more than 2,500 points and 1,300 rebounds. ... Dajuan Harris is No. 2 on the Kansas all-time assist list (805). Jacque Vaughn dished 804 assists from 1994-97. Harris trails only Aaron Miles, the school leader in assists (954 from 2002-05). … Harris has 52 games in his career where he has scored over 10 points and 92 games with five or more assists. … Senior guard David “Diggy” Coit hit his 200th career 3-pointer vs. CU. … Zeke Mayo has five or more assists in five games. Tuesday’s win marked the sixth time Mayo grabbed eight or more rebounds. … Kansas is 9-2 when Flory Bidunga grabs six or more rebounds. ... KU has lost two in a row on the road and is 3-5 in true road games this season.
About Utah (13-11, 5-8): The Utes are 12-3 this season at Jon M. Huntsman Center, 4-2 in conference action. Utah has won two in a row at home (vs. Colorado, Cincinnati). Overall the Utes enter the KU game on a two-game losing streak (setbacks at Cincinnati and West Virginia). … Last year’s squad won 17 games in Huntsman Center, the most since the 2013-14 team went 18-2. … Utah defeated BYU 73-72 in overtime on Jan. 18 in a matchup of in-state rivals in Salt Lake City. The rematch will be March 8 at BYU. … Coach Craig Smith is 63-61 in four seasons as Utes coach. Smith has also been head coach at South Dakota and Utah State. … Utah is now 70-166 (.297) all-time against AP ranked opponents. Utah is 22-79 (.218) all-time against top-10 AP ranked opponents. … The Madsen brothers, Gabe and Mason, are one of 10 sets of twins playing Div. I basketball. … Caleb Lohner made his first Utes appearance on Dec. 7 vs. St. Mary’s. He is believed to be the only dual-sport athlete in the NCAA this season to play football and men’s basketball. The Flower Mound, Texas native finished his lone football season at Utah with four touchdowns on four receptions for 54 yards in 12 games. He also recorded a solo tackle and blocked field goal. He has played in 15 basketball games for Utah, averaging 2.8 points and 1.4 rebounds. … The Utes finished last season 22-15 overall, most wins for the program since the 2017-18 squad went 23-12. … Gabe Madsen broke the school’s single-season 3-point record last season, finishing with 105 made 3s. This year he is 70-of-218 for 32.1%. … Mason Madsen has made 43 of 109 three-point attempts (39.4%).
