KU Jayhawks vs. Arizona Wildcats in Big 12 Tournament: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV
The Kansas Jayhawks will tangle with the Arizona Wildcats in a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal game on Thursday night at T-Mobile Center.
Here’s what you need to know before tipoff...
Kansas-Arizona game details
When: Approximately 8:30 p.m., Thursday
Where: T-Mobile Center (Kansas City)
TV: ESPN
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita
Betting line: Arizona by 1.5 (game prediction)
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Arizona | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 4 | Trey Townsend | 6-6 | Sr. | 8.2 |
F | 30 | Tobe Awaka | 6-8 | Jr. | 8.6 |
G | 3 | Anthony Dell’Orso | 6-6 | Jr. | 7.5 |
G | 0 | Jaden Bradley | 6-3 | Jr. | 11.9 |
G | 1 | Caleb Love | 6-4 | Sr. | 16.4 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Sr. | 9.1 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 17.4 |
G | 5 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 14.0 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 9.1 |
G | 6 | Rylan Griffen | 6-6 | Jr. | 6.8 |
About Kansas (21-11, 11-9 Big 12 regular season)
KU advanced to the Big 12 quarterfinals by beating UCF 98-94 in overtime on Wednesday at T-Mobile Center. ... KU leads the all-time series against Arizona, 9-4. The Jayhawks are 3-1 versus Arizona in Allen Fieldhouse. … Bill Self is 3-2 versus Arizona as KU coach. Tommy Lloyd is 0-1 versus KU. …
KU defeated Arizona 83-76 Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse in the only meeting this season between the teams. Hunter Dickinson tied a career high with 33 points on 15-of-23 shooting. He had 10 rebounds in 34 minutes. Zeke Mayo was 5-of-7 from 3 and scored 20 points with six assists, no turnovers. KJ Adams had 12 points and eight rebounds and Dajuan Harris nine points, nine assists, one turnover. …
Prior to that game, KU had last met Arizona in the 2011 Las Vegas Invitational. The Jayhawks won 76-72 in OT. … KU is 4-4 vs. ranked teams. … Bill Self is 609-154 while at Kansas, 816-259 all-time. … The Jayhawks are 17-3 when leading at halftime. … Kansas is 11-1 when scoring 80+ points. … KU is 87-8 when outrebounding its opponent including 19-5 this season. … KU is 12-2 when the opponent finishes a game with more turnovers than the Jayhawks. ... KU is 19-4 when shooting better than its opponent. …
Dickinson has 63 career double-doubles, 15 this season. He has double-doubles in six of his last seven games. … KJ Adams has scored in double figures in 13 games.
About Arizona (20-11, 14-6)
As the No. 3 seed in the Big 12 tournament, Arizona received a bye into the quarterfinal round. ... The Wildcats went 6-4 on the road and 8-2 at home in regular-season conference action. … Arizona’s leading scorer is senior guard Caleb Love, who averages 16.4 points a game off 37.6% shooting. He is 78-of-245 from 3 for 31.8%. Junior guard Jaden Bradley averages 11.9 points on 46.6% shooting. He is 17-of-63 from 3 for 27.0%. … Love and Bradley are near automatic from the line. Love is 93-of-106 for 87.7% and Bradley 94-of-112 for 83.9%. …
As a team, the Wildcats average 82.0 points a game while allowing 72.1. … Arizona has scored over 100 points in four games (Arizona State, Old Dominion, Davidson, Southern Utah) in 2024-25. … Former North Carolina Tar Heel guard Love scored 13 points on 5-of-24 shooting (1-of-8 from 3) in UNC’s 72-69 loss to KU in the 2022 national title game. …
Arizona has lost five of its last eight games. … Tommy Lloyd is 108-31 in four years at Arizona. … Bradley’s 59 steals are the most by an Arizona player 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 78.3% from the free throw line, which would be the second-best single-season percentage in program history (78.6% in 2003-04). …
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. He had 10 points, nine rebounds Saturday vs. Kansas. … Forward Trey Townsend, a transfer from Oakland, recently passed the 2,000 mark in points.
