The 12th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday did something that other teams have struggled to do throughout the season — slowed Kansas senior Ochai Agbaji down.
Agbaji, who entered Saturday’s blue blood battle as the reigning Big 12 player of the week after going for 37 points in a Monday night win over No. 13 Texas Tech, was limited to 13 points on 4-of-14 shooting in Saturday’s 80-62 loss to the ...
No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks (17-2 overall, 6-1 Big 12) vs. No. 12 Kentucky Wildcats (16-4 overall, 6-2 SEC)
Time: 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022
Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas
TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network
Keys for Kansas
1. Lead guards matter
Whether it’s Dajuan Harris Jr. and Remy Martin for Kansas or Sahvir Wheeler and TyTy Washington for Kentucky, the primary ball-handlers ...
Any time blue blood programs Kansas and Kentucky get together, it automatically is considered a big game.
Rankings don’t always matter. Records don’t matter either. Heck, players and coaches don’t even really matter. Neither does when the matchup of the two winningest programs in college basketball history takes place.
Still, more often than not, those factors all register at an elite level on the ...
It’s obsessively tracked by Kansas basketball fans year after year. After each game. After each win. After each loss.
While the specifics of those games are always important — Who scored? What happened on defense? Can this player or that player really keep this up? — the one big-picture thing that so many people want to know after each one is simple: How far behind Kentucky is Kansas for first place on ...
What started as a murmur from one of his teammates way back in early November has grown into a full-fledged roar within the Kansas basketball program.
To a man, the fifth-ranked Jayhawks believe their team has the country’s best college basketball player in senior guard Ochai Agbaji. And nights like Monday night make it awfully difficult for others to dispute that.
Agbaji went off for the second ...
In the postgame press conference following Monday’s 94-91 double-overtime thriller against Texas Tech, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was asked why senior guard Remy Martin played just eight minutes in the second half and two overtimes.
“I don’t want to be negative, but who would he go in for,” Self replied. “We (needed) to rebound the ball, so I didn’t think it was a time that you play two ...
