KU basketball vs. Seton Hall: Probable starters, tipoff time, TV info
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THE DETAILS
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
TV: ESPN
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; KFH (1240 AM, 97.5 FM) in Wichita
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Seton Hall | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 4 | Tyrese Samuel | 6-10 | Sr. | 10.9 |
F | 13 | KC Ndefo | 6-7 | Sr. | 7.1 |
G | 2 | Al-Amir Dawes | 6-2 | Sr. | 11.9 |
G | 21 | Femi Odukale | 6-6 | Jr. | 5.3 |
G | 0 | Kadary Richmond | 6-6 | Jr. | 6.0 |
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Soph. | 6.5 |
F | 10 | Jalen Wilson | 6-8 | Jr. | 22.8 |
G | 1 | Joseph Yesufu | 6-0 | Jr. | 5.0 |
G | 4 | Gradey Dick | 6-8 | Fr. | 15.4 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-1 | Jr. | 7.8 |
About Seton Hall (4-3):
The Pirates are 1-1 all-time in Big East-Big 12 Battle games, falling at Iowa State in 2019 and defeating No. 7 Texas at Prudential Center last season, 64-60. ... Thursday’s game at Kansas will be the Pirates’ first game against a defending national champion in nonconference play since facing Duke in the Fall of 2001, an 80-79 loss in the Maui Invitational. ... Seton Hall was picked to finish seventh in the 11-team Big East Conference in the league’s preseason poll. …
Graduate student KC Ndefo of Elmont, New York, is the NCAA’s active career leader in blocks with 318. ... Junior guard Kadary Richmond was named to the Big East preseason all-conference second team. Richmond averaged 8.8 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game last season. … The Pirates have defeated Monmouth (79-52), Saint Peter’s (80-44), Wagner (82-44) and Memphis (70-69) and lost to Iowa (83-67), Oklahoma (77-64) and Siena (60-55). … Senior forward Tyrese Samuel banked in a three from the top of the three-point arc to beat the buzzer and lift Seton Hall to a victory over Memphis in the first round of last week’s ESPN Events Invitational in Florida. The Pirates went on to lose to Oklahoma by 13 points in the semifinals. … Guard Al-Amir Dawes has 950 career points after his 15-point outing against Siena on Sunday. …
The Pirates lost three games in November for the first time since 2010-11. …With the Davis brothers (Dre and Tae) and the Harris brothers (Jamir and JaQuan), Seton Hall is one of three schools in NCAA Division I (Clemson and Kansas City) with two sets of brothers on the same team. … Former Seton Hall player Shaheen Holloway is in his first season as head coach at his alma mater. As head coach at Saint Peter’s, Holloway was MAAC Coach of the Year in 2020, led the Peacocks to a 54- 32 mark (.628) over his last three seasons and the Elite Eight at the 2022 NCAA Tournament.
About No. 9 Kansas (7-1):
The Jayhawks are 2-1 all-time against Seton Hall. In the last meeting, KU defeated the Pirates, 83-79, on March 17, 2018, in the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament in Wichita. … KU also beat Seton Hall 80-62 on Nov. 21, 2001, in the fifth-place game of the Maui Invitational. Seton Hall beat KU 92-81 in the finals of the Great Alaska Shootout on Nov. 28, 1988. …
Kansas is 2-1 in the Big 12/Big East Battle. Last season, Kansas won at St. John’s 95-75 on Dec. 3, 2021. In 2020, KU defeated then-No. 8 Creighton 73-72 in Allen Fieldhouse. KU lost at Villanova 56-55 on Dec. 21, 2019, in the inaugural Big East/Big 12 Battle. …
Kansas is second in the Big 12 in assists at 18.2 per game. … Redshirt-junior forward Jalen Wilson leads the conference in scoring (22.8) and double-doubles with four. Wilson’s points per game are third nationally and his double-doubles are tied for fourth. Wilson has 182 points through the first eight games, which is the most by a KU player in the Bill Self era. All-American Ochai Agbaji is second with 181 points last season. ... Gradey Dick leads Big 12 freshmen in points/game (15.4) and three-point field goals made (23). Dick’s 123 points scored are the third most by a KU freshman in the Bill Self era (through eight games). He trails Xavier Henry (131 points in 2009-10) and Ben McLemore (128 points in 2012-13).
