KU Jayhawks basketball vs. North Carolina Tar Heels: Probable starters, TV info
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- Kansas travels to Chapel Hill Friday for its first regular-season road game vs UNC.
- Probable starters list features freshmen forwards and senior guards on both rosters.
- Kansas leads the series 7-6 and seeks to extend its five-game recent win streak.
The Kansas Jayhawks will face fellow men’s college basketball blueblood North Carolina on Friday night in Chapel Hill, N.C.
It will be KU’s first road game of the regular season. Here’s what else to know before tipoff:
KU basketball vs. North Carolina: Game details
When/where: 6 p.m. Central Time Friday, Dean E. Smith Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
TV: ESPN.
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM).
Probable starters
Kansas (1-0)
• F (40) — Flory Bidunga, 6-10, Soph., 23.0 ppg
• G (3) — Tre White, 6-7, Sr., 9.0
• G ( 22) — Darryn Peterson, 6-6, Fr., 21.0
•. G (14) — Melvin Council Jr., 6-4, Sr., 10.0
•. G (7) — Kohl Rosario, 6-6, Fr., 6.0
North Carolina (1-0)
•. F (No. 15) — Jarin Stevenson, 6-10, Jr., 5.0 ppg
•. F (8) — Caleb Wilson, 6-10, Fr., 22.0
•. C (13) — Henri Veesaar, 7-0, 225, Jr., 14.0
•. G (7) — Seth Trimble, 6-3, Sr., 12.0
•. G (0) Kyan Evans, 6-2, Jr., 15.0
About No. 19 Kansas:
KU leads the all-time series 7-6. The Jayhawks defeated the Tar Heels, 92-89, last season at Allen Fieldhouse. Zeke Mayo had 21 points and Hunter Dickinson 20 points and 10 rebounds for Jayhawks, who entered the game ranked No. 1 in the country; UNC was No. 9. ... KU escaped OT when Elliot Cadeau missed a 3-pointer as time expired. … KU is now 1-1 vs. UNC in Allen and 0-0 in the Smith Center. … Last year’s victory was the one that moved Bill Self into a tie with Phog Allen for most wins in KU history. … Kansas and St. John’s are the only two schools that rank in the top 10 all-time in wins never to have played a game in Chapel Hill. ...
This is the first time the Tar Heels and Jayhawks have played when at least one of the teams was not ranked in the top 10 in the AP poll since they played in 1959. ... KU has won five consecutive games in the series, four in the NCAA Tournament. ... Kansas ranks No. 2 in all-time victories with 2,415 wins, while North Carolina is No. 3 at 2,396. Kentucky has 2,423 victories. ... Kansas has won seven-straight games versus ACC opponents and 16 of its last 17 against the league dating to 2012. The 16-1 mark includes wins versus Duke (5), UNC (4), NC State (3), Miami, Clemson, Wake Forest, and Syracuse. ... Carolina is first all-time in NCAA Tournament wins (134) and Final Fours (21), second in appearances (54) and third in championships (6); Kansas is third all-time in NCAA Tournament appearances (52), fourth in wins (113), fifth in Final Fours (15) and seventh in titles (4).
Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams’ first head coaching job was at Kansas from 1989-2003. Williams guided KU to four Final Fours (1991, 1993, 2002, 2003), nine conference regular season titles and four league tournament titles amassing a 418-101 record. Williams returned to his alma mater and guided UNC to three NCAA titles (2005, 2009, 2017) and concluded with a career record of 903-264. … Legendary North Carolina coach Dean Smith was from Emporia, Kansas and graduated from KU in 1953. He was a member of Kansas’ 1952 NCAA National Championship team. Smith coached at North Carolina from 1961-97 and won two NCAA titles.
About No. 25 North Carolina
The Tar Heels went 1-1 in the exhibition season, first falling to BYU, 78-76, on Oct. 24 in Salt Lake City, then defeating Winston-Salem State, 95-53, on Oct. 29 in the Dean E. Smith Center. … UNC beat Central Arkansas, 94-54, in the season opener Monday in Chapel Hill. … The Tar Heels were picked to finish third in the 18-team Atlantic Coast Conference in the league’s media poll. … Caleb Wilson was voted to the league’s preseason all-ACC second team and the all-freshman team. … The Kansas game is the second of five consecutive home games to begin the regular season for the Tar Heels. This is the first time UNC has opened with five straight home games since 1918-19 (that stretch included two games vs. Durham YMCA and one each vs. Guilford, Wake Forest and Elon). ...
Carolina’s 16-man roster includes five returning players and 11 newcomers. Only senior guard Seth Trimble played rotational minutes last season. He averaged 11.6 points and 5.0 rebounds in 28.6 minutes per game. … This marks the 41st season the Tar Heels are playing their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center. … Carolina is 490-90 all-time in the Smith Center. … KU, Central Arkansas, Navy and USC Upstate this season will play in the Smith Center for the first time. … Kyan Evans, a transfer from Colorado State, is a graduate of Staley High School in Kansas City. He hit four three-pointers and scored 15 points with six rebounds (which tied a career best), five assists and four steals in the Heels’ season opener.
This is the 69th season in the 78-year history of the AP poll the Tar Heels have been ranked. … Trimble is on the Jerry West shooting guard award list, Wilson the Karl Malone power forward award list and Henri Veesaar on the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar center award list. … The Tar Heels return 14.0% of their scoring from last year, 13.8% of their rebounds, 8.0% of their assists and 8.4% of their 3-pointers. Trimble accounts for 396 of the 419 returning points, 169 of the 188 rebounds and all 44 assists and 25 three-pointers. …
Hubert Davis is 102-45 in five seasons at UNC. … North Carolina assistant coach Brad Frederick’s father is former Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick who served as AD from 1987-2001 and died in June 2009. Bob Frederick hired Roy Williams who coached at Kansas for 15 seasons. … Jonas Sahration is in his 21st year as the North Carolina strength and conditioning coach. Sahration was in the same role at Kansas for five years, including Bill Self’s first season at KU in 2003-04.
