KU basketball vs. Kansas City Roos: Game time, streaming info & projected lineups
KU basketball will face the Kansas City Roos on Tuesday night inside Allen Fieldhouse.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the KU-KC showdown, plus projected lineups.
When: 7 p.m., Tuesday
Where: Allen Fieldhouse (Lawrence)
Streaming/TV: Big 12 Now/ESPN+
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Kansas City | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F/G | 5 | Jamar Brown | 6-5 | Jr. | 14.0 |
F/G | 30 | Cameron Faas | 6-6 | Jr. | 10.4 |
F | 23 | Allen David Mukeba | 6-7 | Jr. | 8.0 |
G | 11 | Anderson Kopp | 6-6 | Sr. | 12.3 |
G | 0 | Artese Stapleton | 6-3 | Sr. | 4.6 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Jr. | 11.8 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 20.9 |
G | 15 | Kevin McCullar | 6-7 | Sr. | 18.5 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 5.6 |
G | 13 | Elmarko Jackson | 6-3 | Fr. | 5.8 |
About Kansas City (3-5):
Kansas City has defeated Avila (79-48), Saint Mary (95-42) and Southeast Missouri State (74-44) and lost to Baylor (99-61), Colorado State (84-61), UNC Greensboro (76-64), Brown (93-83, OT) and Middle Tennessee State (63-59). … The Roos hit 5 of 14 3s against SE Missouri State and 7 of 19 against MTSU after converting 12 of 34 3s against UNC Greensboro and 14 of 27 against Brown. It marked the first time Kansas City made 12-plus 3s in back-to-back games since Nov. 25 and 28, 2016. …
Cameron Faas was 6-of-7 shooting from 3 against UNC Greensboro. He is one of 10 players in NCAA Division I so far this season to shoot 6-of-7 or better from 3-point range in a single game. … Marvin Menzies is 14-26 in two seasons at Kansas City. … During his nine seasons at New Mexico State, Menzies’ teams won three WAC regular season championships. His squads also won the WAC tournament championship and qualified for the NCAA Tournament five times: in 2010 and from 2012-15. He was named WAC Coach of the Year in 2015. …
Anderson Kopp is the longest-tenured Roos player, having spent the 2021-22 season in Kansas City prior to Menzies’ arrival. ... The Roos average 12.5 assists per game. … Cameron Faas has made a team-leading 19 3s and has 15 assists.
About No. 2 Kansas (7-1):
KU leads the all-time series against Kansas City 8-0. The Jayhawks are 5-0 versus the Roos in Allen Fieldhouse and 3-0 at T-Mobile Center. In the last meeting, KU rolled 98-57 on Dec. 14, 2019, at T-Mobile Center. The closest game in the series was KU’s 79-68 victory on Dec. 8, 2001, at Allen Fieldhouse. …
KU is 7-1 or better for the 10th-straight season, beginning in 2014-15. … Kansas is 4-0 in Allen Fieldhouse this season and 844-117 all-time in the venue, including 303-17 under Bill Self. … Self is 572-133 while at Kansas and 779-238 overall. … Kansas is 13-0 at home against top-5 opponents ranked higher than KU in the Bill Self era. … KU had a season-low eight turnovers in Friday’s 69-65 win over UConn. …
Kevin McCullar has scored 20 or more points four times this season and seven in his two-year KU career. … Hunter Dickinson has scored in double-figures eight times this season and 90 times in his career. Dickinson has played 30-plus minutes in all but two games this season — North Carolina Central and Manhattan College. …
KJ Adams has scored in double-figures in three straight games and six times this season. He’s had 25 double-digit scoring games in his KU career. … Elmarko Jackson played a season-high 32 minutes versus UConn. … Dajuan Harris has tied Tyshawn Taylor for 14th on the all-time Kansas steal list (172).
