KU Jayhawks vs. Colorado Buffaloes basketball: Probable starters, tipoff time & TV
Colorado will play host to Kansas on Monday night at CU Events Center. The game will start at 10 p.m. Central as the Jayhawks look to make it two wins in a row.
Here’s everything you need to know before tipoff...
Kansas at Colorado: Game details
When: 10 p.m. Central, Monday
Where: CU Events Center, Boulder, Colorado
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. | 8.0 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 16.3 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 9.7 |
G | 5 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 14.7 |
G | 6 | Rylan Griffen | 6-6 | Jr. | 6.7 |
P | No. | Colorado | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 23 | Andrej Jakimovski | 6-8 | Sr. | 10.2 |
F | 7 | Sebastian Rancik | 6-9 | Fr. | 6.0 |
F | 8 | Bangot Dak | 6-11 | Soph. | 7.9 |
G | 5 | RJ Smith | 6-3 | Soph. | 5.5 |
G | 3 | Julian Hammond | 6-2 | Sr. | 12.9 |
About Colorado (11-16, 2-14)
Colorado is 2-1 since losing to KU 71-59 on Feb. 11 at Allen Fieldhouse. The Buffs defeated UCF 76-63 on Feb. 15 in Boulder, lost to Iowa State 79-65 on Feb. 18 in Ames, Iowa, and upended Baylor 76-74 on Saturday in Boulder. ...
Senior forward Andrej Jakimovski hit five of CU’s nine 3s and scored 17 points vs. Baylor. He had a game-high seven rebounds and five assists. Jakimovski has made 11 of 25 3s the last four games (.440). He is averaging 5.5 rebounds over the last six games. ... RJ Smith had 13 points, Julian Hammond 12 and Sebastian Rancik 10 vs. BU. The Buffs held Baylor to 36% (25-69) shooting, the second-lowest shooting percentage from an opposing team in Big 12 play for Colorado this season. ...
Bangot Dak has made eight straight free throws dating to the UCF game. Dak is 24th on CU’s single-season blocks list with 39. ... Colorado dropped 13 games in a row to open the conference season before tripping UCF. … CU is 10-6 at CU Events Center this season … The win over UCF snapped snapped a six-game losing streak at CU Events Center. ... Prior to the beginning of that streak, Colorado had won 24 of 25 at the Events Center dating to last season. ... CU has won two in a row at home. ...
Former KU great Danny Manning is a first-year assistant coach on former Jayhawk guard Tad Boyle’s CU coaching staff. … Colorado is 1-6 against ranked opponents in 2024-25… CU’s win over then-No. 2 UConn on Nov. 26 in Maui marked the highest-ranked win away from Boulder in program history. ... Boyle, in his 15th season, picked up his 300th win at Colorado during the win over Northern Colorado, the most in program history.
About Kansas (18-9, 9-7)
KU leads the all-time series 125-40. The Jayhawks are 25-8 versus the Buffs in CU Events Center. … KU has won two in a row and 21 of the last 22 between the schools. … Bill Self is 20-1 versus Colorado as KU coach; Tad Boyle is 1-6 versus KU as CU coach. … The Jayhawks prevailed 71-59 on Feb. 11 at Allen Fieldhouse in the first of two meetings between the teams this season. ... Sebastian Rancik scored 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 30 minutes to lead the Buffs. Hunter Dickinson had 19 points and nine rebounds in 28 minutes, while Zeke Mayo had 13 points, nine rebounds and five assists. ...
Kansas’ 29-point halftime lead against Oklahoma State on Saturday tied for the third-largest halftime lead against a Big 12 opponent in school history. The Jayhawks led Baylor 49-17 (32 points) on Jan. 28, 1998, and led Texas Tech 44-14 (30 points) on Jan. 24, 1998. Kansas has led by 29 points at half in a Big 12 contest on two other occasions. Kansas led TCU 38-9 on Feb. 23, 2013, and led Texas Tech 51-22 on March 9, 2002. ...
KU had 15 steals against Oklahoma State, most steals in a KU game this season and the most by a Kansas team since the Jayhawks swiped 17 steals against Baylor on Feb. 10, 2024. ... Seniors David Coit and Zeke Mayo both hit 5 three-pointers. The last time members of a Jayhawk duo each hit 5 or more threes in a game was on Jan. 9, 2018 against Iowa State (Svi Mykhailiuk, 6 and Malik Newman, 5) ...
Forward Flory Bidunga passed No. 5 Julian Wright (41 blocks, 2006) and No. 4 David Padgett (43 blocks, 2004) on the Kansas freshman single-season blocks list, now with 44. ... Dajuan Harris started his 137th game for Kansas, which is tied for second all-time in KU history behind No. 1 Danny Manning, 146 (1985-88). Harris tied his career-high in steals with 6, all of which came in the first half. Harris also had six steals against West Virginia on Feb. 25, 2023. With 254 career steals, Harris passed Danny Manning (250, 1985-88) and is now No. 4 on the Kansas all-time steals list.
