Kansas Jayhawks basketball vs. Harvard: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV and more

THE DETAILS

When/where: 6 p.m. Thursday, Allen Fieldhouse

TV: ESPN2

Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; KFH (1240 AM, 97.5 FM) in Wichita

PROBABLE STARTERS

About Harvard (8-4): Harvard has defeated Morehouse, Elon, Northeastern, Siena, Loyola Chicago, Holy Cross, Tufts and UC Irvine and lost to Louisiana, Fordham, UMass and Howard. … Harvard is 2-2 in its last four games. … Coach Tommy Amaker is 272-156 in 16 seasons at Harvard. … Harvard hit 14 threes vs. Tufts in a 76-59 win. … Senior guard/forward Chris Ledlum scored a career-high 30 points with nine rebounds and a career-best five steals vs. Loyola Chicago. Ledlum scored 25 points with 10 rebounds against UMass. He scored 29 points on 12-of-17 shooting vs. Northeastern and tallied 18 points while grabbing nine boards in Tuesday’s 62-57 win at UC Irvine. ... Ledlum ranks second in the Ivy League in points per game (18.8). He is first in rebounds per game (7.8), second in steals per game (1.9), and fifth in blocks per game (1.1). In the NCAA, he is 16th in field goals made (89), 39th in total points (226), and 45th in points per game. ... Harvard owns 16 victories under Amaker against schools from Power-5 Conferences. Since Amaker’s first season in 2007-08, the Crimson have posted a 16-16 regular-season record vs. teams from those leagues and are 16-22 overall (regular season, postseason). The 16 overall wins against Power Five teams are more than double the next-closest Ivy League team (Yale, 7) … Harvard is 21-8 in its last 29 nonconference games. The Crimson are 10-4 in their last 14 true nonconference road games. …The Crimson won 209 games from 2010-20 outpacing Princeton (193) and Northeastern (181) for most wins in the Ivy League. Harvard also advanced to eight postseason tournaments and won seven conference titles in that span.

About No. 4 Kansas (10-1): KU is 1-0 versus Harvard. The Jayhawks won, 75-69, on Dec. 5, 2015, at Allen Fieldhouse. KU led, 72-69, with 28 seconds to play. ... Kansas went 0-2 against Harvard coach Tommy Amaker during Amaker’s playing days at Duke. Duke won, 92-86, in the championship game of the preseason NIT on Dec. 1, 1985, in New York and won, 71-67, in the 1986 Final Four semifinals on March 29, 1986 in Dallas. Amaker averaged 8.0 points and 7.5 assists in the two wins and was later named to the 1986 All-Final Four Team. …Kansas is 16-0 all-time against Ivy league schools. (4-0 vs. Penn, 3-0 vs. Cornell, 3-0 vs. Yale, 2-0 vs. Brown, 2-0 vs. Princeton, 1-0 vs. Dartmouth and 1-0 vs. Harvard). The last Ivy League meeting for KU was against Penn in the opening round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. KU defeated the Quakers, 76-60, Wichita, Kansas. ... Kansas leads the Big 12 in assists per game at 18.6 apg, which is 10th nationally. KU is second in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.47), as well as steals per game (9.7) and three-pointers made per game (7.8). ... Jalen Wilson leads the conference in scoring at 21.1 ppg, which is 14th nationally. He also leads the Big 12 with six double-doubles, which is eighth nationally. ... Wilson has 984 career points (16 from 1,000). He’s hoping to become the 66th all-time KU player to reach 1,000 points, including the 21st in the Bill Self era. ... Dajuan Harris has 35 assists and seven turnovers in his last four games, including his first career double-double with 10 points and 10 assists vs. No. 14 Indiana. He is second in the Big 12, fifth nationally in assists per game at 6.8. ... KU has won 12 consecutive games in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks are 6-0 in Allen this season, 836-116 all-time in the venue, including 298-16 in the Bill Self era.