Baylor Bears vs. Kansas Jayhawks basketball: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV info

THE DETAILS

When: 3 p.m. Saturday

Where: Allen Fieldhouse (Lawrence, Kan.)

TV: ESPN

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

PROBABLE STARTERS

About No. 9 Baylor (20-6, 9-4):

Baylor has won four games in a row and 10 of 11. … Junior guard LJ Cryer hit a career-high eight threes (in 11 attempts) and scored 26 points in BU’s last game, a 79-67 win over West Virginia on Monday. … BU has won 20 games for the 14th time in the last 16 seasons. … Baylor has won four Big 12 road games. BU has the best Big 12 road record (25-7) over the last four seasons. …

The Bears are 26-9 vs. AP top 25 teams over the last four years, including 16-5 away from home. … Baylor is 12-2 versus top 10 teams in the last three years. … Guard Adam Flagler scored 16-straight second-half points to spark BU to a 72-68 win at No. 17 TCU in the Bears’ last road game on Feb. 11. … Keyonte George scored a career-high 32 points in an 83-78 BU win over West Virginia on Jan. 11 in Morgantown, West Virginia. His 32 points were the most by a Baylor freshman since LaceDarius Dunn’s freshman-record 38 at Texas Tech in 2008. George has 10, 20-point games, the most by a BU freshman since Lawrence Roberts (11) in 2001-02. …

BU is 163-93 in Big 12 play in 13 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league’s first 13 seasons. … Baylor has been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll in four of the last seven seasons (Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas are the only others to accomplish that feat). … Baylor and Kansas are the only Power Five schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.

About No. 5 Kansas (21-5, 9-4):

KU leads the all-time series 35-9. BU has won two in a row, three of the last five and four of the last seven games vs. KU. The teams are deadlocked at 5-5 over the last 10 meetings. The Jayhawks also have won 16 of the last 21 and 21 of the last 28 meetings. …… Bill Self is 27-8 versus BU as KU coach. … KU is 18-1 versus Baylor in Allen Fieldhouse … Nine of the last 15 meetings between KU and BU have been decided by eight points or less, with six of those by five points or less. ... KU lost to Baylor 75-69 on Jan. 23 in Waco, Texas. Cryer finished with a team-leading 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting with three assists and two boards in 37 minutes. Cryer had five three-pointers in the first half. KU was led by Gradey Dick and Jalen Wilson who had 24 and 23 points respectively . …

KU has won three games in a row and five of its last six contests overall. ... KU has won 21 games for the 34th consecutive season, a streak which started in 1989-90 and is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I . … Bill Self is 577-129 while at Kansas, 780-234 all-time. … A Self-coached team has won 21 games for the 25th-straight season, including all 20 while at Kansas, and the 26th time in 30 years as a head coach … Kansas is 20-0 when leading at the half. … KU has 10 or more steals in two straight games. … KU has been swept in a regular-season home-and-home series just twice in the Self era (to Oklahoma State in 2018 and Texas in 2021). …

Gradey Dick has made three or more three-pointers 10 times and has scored 20 or more points seven times, including twice in his last three games and four times in Big 12 conference play. … Dick has 381 points, good for 11th on the KU freshman all-time scoring list. … KJ Adams has scored in double-figures 16 times. … Joseph Yesufu had three steals Tuesday at Oklahoma State, his most in a game at KU. He had four steals in a game once while at Drake. Yesufu has scored at least eight points in three of his last four games.