K-State Wildcats vs. Kansas Jayhawks: Probable starters, tipoff, TV, facts and figures

THE DETAILS

When/where: 8 p.m. Tuesday, Allen Fieldhouse.

TV: ESPN.

Radio: WHB (810 AM) in Kansas City; KCSP (610 AM) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.

PROBABLE STARTERS

P

No.

Kansas State

Ht.

Yr.

PPG

C

20

Jerrell Colbert

6-10

Soph.

2.8

F

24

Arthur Kaluma

6-7

Jr.

14.6

G

2

Tylor Perry

5-11

Sr.

16.0

G

4

Dai Dai Ames

6-1

Fr.

4.6

G

5

Cam Carter

6-3

Jr.

15.1

P

No.

Kansas

Ht.

Yr.

PPG

C

1

Hunter Dickinson

7-2

Sr.

18.3

G

25

Nick Timberlake

6-4

Sr.

4.2

G

15

Kevin McCullar

6-7

Sr.

19.1

G

3

Dajuan Harris

6-2

Sr.

8.5

G

20

Michael Jankovich

6-4

Sr.

2.4

About Kansas State (17-12, 7-9): The Wildcats had a two-game winning snapped Saturday by Cincinnati. Tylor Perry hit six 3s and scored 26 points in a narrow 74-71 loss. … K-State has lost seven straight road games. ... K-State has lost 17 in a row at Allen Fieldhouse. KSU’s last win at Allen was on Jan. 14, 2006. ... The Wildcats are trying to sweep KU for the first time since 1983. ... Among the Wildcats’ 17 wins are seven Quad 1 or 2 victories (Providence, Villanova, LSU, UCF, Baylor, Kansas and BYU. ... K-State is 7-4 in games decided by five points or less. ... The Wildcats have won 12 straight overtime games, including breaking the Division I single-season record with their seventh this season — a 94-90 comeback win over West Virginia on Feb. 26. The current 12-game overtime streak is the second-longest since 1950. ... The Wildcats rank 339th in Division I with 15 turnovers per game. More than a third of Cincinnati’s 72 points came from turnovers, as the Bearcats scored an opponent season-high 29 points off 19 Wildcat turnovers Saturday. ... K-State is 9-1, including 5-1 in Big 12 play when senior Will McNair scores in double figures. He is averaging 8.9 points in the 17 wins, including 9.6 points in the seven Big 12 wins, while he is averaging 5.7 points in the 12 losses. ... Junior forward Arthur Kaluma scored 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in a Feb. 10 win over BYU. It marked K-State’s first 20-point, 10-rebound effort since Keyontae Johnson accomplished the feat against KU on Jan. 31, 2023. He had seven points on 2-of-11 shooting versus Cincy. … Perry has made a shot to either win a game or send the game into overtime seven times in his DI career. … K-State is now 3-6 vs. Top 25 teams this season, including 3-1 at home and 0-5 outside of Manhattan. … K-State has grabbed 40 or more rebounds in 10 games, including a season-best 63 in a win over Central Arkansas.

About Kansas (21-8, 9-7): KU, which has won eight of the last 10 meetings between the rivals, leads the all-time series, 204-96. KU is 52-17 against KSU in Allen Fieldhouse. … Bill Self is 40-8 versus Kansas State. … Self is 793-245 all-time, including 586-140 while at Kansas. He’s four wins from tying Phog Allen as KU’s all-time winningest coach. … Kansas on Saturday at Baylor returned to the starting lineup of Dajuan Harris, Johnny Furphy, Kevin McCullar, KJ Adams and Hunter Dickinson for the ninth game this season. The group is 6-4 as a starting lineup. … The Jayhawks are 11-4 in games when shooting 50% or better in the first half. … The Jayhawks are 4-4 in games when trailing at the half. … Kansas scored 46 points in the paint versus BU, marking the fourth Big 12 Conference game this season with 45+ points in the paint. The season-high of 52 points in the paint came against Texas on Feb. 24. … Kansas is 12-3 in games when shooting 50% or better. … The Jayhawks are 0-2 in games when their opponent shoots 50% or better. … Harris is 11th on KU’s all-time minutes played list. Harris has played 3,908 career minutes. …The Jayhawks are 33-4 when Harris scores 10 or more points, including 9-3 this season. … Hunter Dickinson has scored in double figures 27 times this season. Dickinson now has 110 games in double-figures over his career. Dickinson leads the Big 12 with 14 games of 20 or more points, while McCullar is second in the Big 12 Conference with 12 games of 20+ points. … Dickinson has recorded two or more blocks in 49 career games, including eight this season. ... KU is 121-19 in the game following a loss in the 21-year Self era. ... Adams leads the league in FG percentage at 60.5%.