Successful conclusion to the non-conference schedule; NEXT -- BIG 12(16) play!

KU closes out the non-conference schedule with a strong showing against visiting Brown.

NEXT UP - BIG 12 CONFERENCE PLAY

KU opens the conference season at home against West Virginia (9-2 as of 2024-12-22).

Points of Interest for the next KU Men's Basketball game

• KU has won 33 consecutive conference opening games - 14 in AFH, 19 on the road.
The last time Kansas lost a conference opener was at Oklahoma, 88-82, on 1991-01-08.
The streak began with a 92-80 win at the Hearnes Center in the Hellmouth on 1992-01-13.

• KU leads the series history with West Virginia 21-7.
- WVU has yet to beat KU away from the WVU Coliseum, where the Mountaineers are 7-5 against KU (WVU is the only past and present Big 12 foe to which Bill Self's Jayhawks have a losing away game record).
WVU is 0-5 against KU in the Big 12 Tournament, and have yet to win a game in 11 appearances in the hallowed halls of The Phog!
- WVU has taken KU to overtime in AFH twice, the first time for the Senior Night game of 2015-03-03, when KU overcame an 18 point deficit to take the Mountaineers to OT for the first time in the AFH history of the series - despite still being down 7 points with less than 2 minutes to go. It was sophomore Frank Mason III, freshman Devonte' Graham, sophomore Brannen Greene and that ol' rascally unlimited energy source RS junior Jamari Traylor who all scored in the last 1:55 to take the game to OT 59-59. From there the Jayhawks outscored WVU 17-10, with the coup de grâce occurring when sophomore Wayne Selden Jr broke the Mountaineers' press and backs with a picture perfect pass to a flying Traylor who jammed it home to give KU the lead for good. With the win KU won the game, it's 33rd straight Senior Game and it's 11th straight Big 12 regular season title 76-69.
- But even with that game in the books, the closest the Mountaineers have come to winning in The Phog! was on 2017-02-13, when WVU took a 7 point 39-32 halftime lead and extended it to 14 points, 64-50 with just 2:58 to go in the game. With their backs against the wall the Jayhawks buckled down offensively and defensively. Frank Mason III, Devonte' Graham and Landen Lucas stepped up to lead Kansas on a 21-7 scoring run (highlighted by forcing 4 WVU turnovers, including 2 steals by Lucas) to tie the game 71-71 with 21 seconds left to take the game to OT. And those three carried the charge into the OT, resulting in KU winning 84-80. During that period the AFH crowd went from what arguably was the deepest funk to the most manic and ear-shattering loudest roar the fieldhouse has ever heard - even louder than the Guinness World record officially set before the game. How can I be so sure? Because konza63, who was back home visiting his mom, came over to go to the game with me. A bloody Crimson & Blue roller coaster that game was!

• This will be new WVU head coach Darian DeVries first game in AFH with the Mountaineers. He was the HC for Drake from 2018-2024, and an assistant with Creighton from 2001-2018, but from what I can find in the record this will be his first time in AFH in any college coaching capacity. Hopefully he will not succeed in his first attempt where former WVU coaches have failed.

• WVU is 9-2, but only a few of those wins are of note right now. Seven of their wins are at home, where they beat no one of consequence except 10-2 Georgetown (who so far has wins at Syracuse and at Seton Hall, and beat Creighton in Georgetown). At neutral sites they beat both Gonzaga and Arizona in OT, but they also lost to Louisville (7-5, but notably all 5 UL losses are to Top 25 teams). The only other WVU loss was on the road to Pitt.

• Bottom line is KU is heavily favored to win (ESPN Analytics has P of KU win = 84%), but this is the beginning of conference play, with a brand spanking new coach driving the WVU wagon and Mountaineers looking to eradicate that AFH goose egg. With that and the 33 game conference opening winning streak on the line, I’m thinking this is going to be a much tougher nut for our Jayhawks to crack than the numbers predict. I would LOVE for the guys to prove me wrong!

1:00 PM CENTRAL on
ESPN+? Really?

ROCK CHALK!

Shay Wildeboor “Taking a look at the WVU Mountaineers”

Posted on JayhawkSlant today.

ROSTER
#0 Eduardo Andre: 6-foot-11, 240-pound center
#` Joseph Yesufu: 6-foot-0, 190-pound guard
# 2 Dylan Jay: 6-foot-4, 197-pound guard
#3 KJ Tenner: 6-foot-0, 166-pound guard
#4 Aden Tagaloa-Nelson: 6-foot-1, 197-pound guard
#5 Toby Okani: 6-foot-8, 210-pound guard
#7 Javon Small: 6-foot-3, 190-pound guard
#8 Jake Auer: 6-foot-0, 195-pound guard
#9 Ofri Naveh: 6-foot-7185-pound guard
#10 Sincere Harris: 6-foot-4, 174-pound guard
#11 Jonathan Powell: 6-foot-6, 191-pound guard
#12 Tucker DeVries: 6-foot-7, 220-pound guard
#13 Amani Hansberry: 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward
#14 Jayden Stone: 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard
#15 Abraham Oyeadier: 6-foot-9, 221-pound center
#22 Haris Elezovic: 6-foot-8, 235-pound center

RECORD
9-2 Overall
7-0 at home
0-1 away
2-1 neutral
Current winning streak: 5 games

SCHEDULE
WINS:
Nov 4. Robert Morris (87-59)
Nov 8. UMass (75-69)
No 20. Iona (86-43)
Nov 27. #3 Gonzaga (ranking at the time; 86-78 at the Battle 4 Atlantis)
Nov 29. #24 Arizona (ranking at the time; 83-76 at the Battle 4 Atlantis)
Dec 6. Georgetown (73-60)
Dec 10. North Carolina Central (79-45)
Dec 14. Bethune-Cookman (84-61)
Dec 22. Mercyhurst (67-46)
Dec 31. @ Kansas
Jan 4. Oklahoma State
Jan 7. Arizona
Jan 12. @ Colorado
Jan 15. @ Houston
Jan 18. Iowa State
Jan 21. Arizona State
Jan 25. @ Kansas State
Jan 29. Houston
Feb 2. @ Cincinnati
Feb 5. @. TCU
Feb 8. Utah
Feb 11. BYU
Feb 15. @ BYU
Feb 19. Cincinnati
Feb 22. @ Texas Tech
Feb 25. TCU
Mar 1. @ BYU
Mar 4. Utah
Mar 8. UCF

SCORING LEADERS
Javon Small (19.7)
Tucker DeVries (14.9)
Amani Hansberry (10.6)

REBOUNDING LEADERS
Amani Hansberry (6.6)
Tucker DeVries (4.9)
Sincere Harris (4.6)

ASSIST LEADERS
Javon Small (53)
Tucker DeVries (22)

FIELD GOAL % LEADERS
Eduardo Andre: 18-of-22 (81.8%)
Toby Okani: 38-of-75 (50.7%)
Amani Hansberry: 42-of-93 (45.2%)
Javon Small: 67-of-150 (44.7%)

3-POINT FIELD GOAL % LEADERS
Jake Auer: 7-of-9 (77.8%)
Tucker DeVries: 26-of-55 (47.3%)
Javon Small: 28-of-72 (38.9%)
Toby Okani: 7-of-19 (36.8%)

FREE-THROW PERCENTAGE LEADERS
Javon Small: 55-of-63 (87.3)
Tucker DeVries 23-of-28 (82.1%)
Amani Hansberry: 22-of-27 (81.5%)

LAST OUTING
On December 22, West Virginia defeated Mercyhurst, 67-46 in Morgantown. Offensively, the Mountaineers were led by Javon Small (19), Eduardo Andre (14), and Toby Okani (13).

For the game, WVU shot 25-of-52 (48.1%) from the field, 5-of-19 (26.3%), and 12-of-18 (66.7%) from the free-throw line.

NOTE WELL -

Game time is 1 PM CENTRAL.

The thread OP has been corrected.