KU Jayhawks basketball vs. Arizona Wildcats: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV
Kansas, which has lost two straight games and four of six, will play host to Arizona on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Tipoff is 3:30 p.m. It will be shown on ESPN.
Here’s everything you need to know before game time...
Kansas-Arizona game details
When: 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Allen Fieldhouse (Lawrence)
TV: ESPN
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita
Betting line: Kansas by 3.5 (game prediction)
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Arizona | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 4 | Trey Townsend | 6-6 | Sr. | 8.0 |
F | 30 | Tobe Awaka | 6-8 | Jr. | 8.5 |
G | 3 | Anthony Dell’Orso | 6-6 | Jr. | 7.6 |
G | 0 | Jaden Bradley | 6-3 | Jr. | 11.6 |
G | 1 | Caleb Love | 6-4 | Sr. | 16.4 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Sr. | 9.0 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 16.9 |
G | 5 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 13.8 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 9.1 |
G | 6 | Rylan Griffen | 6-6 | Jr. | 6.8 |
About Arizona (20-10, 14-5)
Arizona is 14-5 in Big 12 play and tied for second place with Texas Tech. The Wildcats will be either No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City. ... The Wildcats, who are 6-3 on the road and 8-2 at home in conference action, scored a season-best 113 points in a 113-100 victory over Arizona State on Tuesday in Tucson, Arizona. It was the Wildcats’ highest scoring game of the season. Arizona has scored over 100 points in four games (ASU, Old Dominion, Davidson, Southern Utah). …
Former North Carolina Tar Heel guard Caleb Love, who scored 13 points on 5-of-24 shooting (1-of-8 from 3) in a 72-69 loss to KU in the 2022 national title game, averages a team-leading 16.4 points on 37.5% shooting. He’s made 76 of 241 3s for 31.5%. … Arizona has lost four of its last seven games. … Tommy Lloyd is 108-30 in four years at Arizona. … Jaden Bradley’s 58 steals this season are the most for Arizona since T.J. McConnell had 83 in 2014-15. Bradley had a career-best seven steals versus Iowa State. …
As a team, Arizona is shooting 78.1% from the free throw line, on track to be the second-best single-season percentage in program history (78.6% in 2003-04). … Love has made 89 of 102 free throws for 87.3% and Jaden Bradley 87 of 105 for 82.9%. Under Lloyd, Arizona is 28-15 (.651) in true road games. … Against Top 25 teams, Arizona is 19-11 since Lloyd was named head coach. Arizona is 5-4 vs Top 25 teams this season. …
Tobe Awaka, a transfer from Tennessee, has eight double-doubles. He had a career-high 15 rebounds vs. Colorado. … Forward Trey Townsend, a transfer from Oakland, recently passed the 2,000 mark in points. … Anthony Dell’Orso connected on a career-high six 3-pointers in a win over Colorado.
About Kansas (19-11, 10-9)
KU leads the all-time series, 8-4. The Jayhawks are 2-1 versus Arizona in Allen Fieldhouse. … Bill Self is 2-2 versus Arizona as KU coach. Tommy Lloyd is 0-0 versus KU. … The last meeting in Lawrence was in 2007, a 76-72 Kansas victory in overtime ... In the last overall meeting, KU defeated Arizona 87-79 in the Las Vegas Invitational on Nov. 27, 2010. ... Arizona ended one of the best seasons in KU history, defeating the Jayhawks 85-82 in an NCAA Sweet 16 game on March 21, 1997, in Birmingham, Alabama. KU went 34-2 that season. Arizona went on to win the NCAA title. ...
KU is 3-4 against ranked teams. The Jayhawks have a 5-10 record against Quad 1 opponents. … KU’s win over Iowa State on Feb. 3 is KU’s only win over a team expected to make the NCAA Tournament since early-season wins over Duke and Michigan State. ...
Dajuan Harris is Kansas’ all-time leader in games played (169) for his career, passing Mitch Lightfoot’s 168 games played from 2017-22. … Hunter Dickinson has 13 double-doubles, four in the last five games. Dickinson has 61 career double-doubles. … Dickinson scored his 2,700th career point Monday at Houston, becoming the 28th player in NCAA Division I history to reach 2,700 points. … KJ Adams has scored in double figures in three straight games and has scored in double figures in 11 games this season, six in Big 12 play. …
KU will honor seven seniors on its Senior Day: Adams, Harris, Hunter Dickinson, Zeke Mayo, Shakeel Moore, Patrick Cassidy, Dillon Wilhite.
