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Game thread - KANSAS @Texas Tech MON FEB 2, 8:00 PM CT
1 month 2 weeks ago - 1 month 2 weeks ago #34461
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
I got nothin’ clever tonight to deliver.
So I’m leavin’ the deliverin' to the ‘HAWKS!
ROCK CHALK, JAYHAWKS!
Add to the ESPN Big Monday glory on another KU MEN'S BASKETBALL...
... Buh duh DUH duh DUH DUH duh duh duh duh DUH DUH DUH ... BALL NIGHT!
Time for another JAYHAWKS ROAD WIN as our AP11 KANSAS JAYHAWKS travel deep into the Texas Panhandle to take on host AP13 Texas Tech at 8:00 PM CT on ESPN’s BIG MONDAY (Fran Fraschilla, Jon Sciambi and Angel Gray reporting)
7:30 PM CT The Crimson and Blue Show radio coverage begins, leading into Brian Hanni and Greg Gurley calling the game for the Jayhawk Radio Network on the kuleanplayer.
KEY FACTOIDS
Although KU leads the series 43*-9 (again, *THW the NCAA), Tech has won the last 2 games in the series, including a win in AFH. In a season where KANSAS still has a say in its destiny, the JAYHAWKS can still guarantee itself at least a share of the Big 12 title by winning out the rest of the way (a Herculean task, but just like “nuke from orbit" it’s the "only way to be sure”), today is just the latest "must win" game on the schedule. And although it is listed as a one or two possession game, our beloved boys in blue are not the favorite in those projections (except in the hearts of JAYHAWKS fans around the world, of course!).
DP is good for tonight. Elmarko is listed as questionable, meaning the short bench has become even shorter and more important than ever. Saturday’s exhaustive win over BYU leaves a big question mark about how much (as asteroid put it) the guys batteries have recharged by now. HCBS is going to have to earn his money time-managing the lads in Crimson & Blue to give them the best chance of winning. And, of course, DP has to last the whole game or the odds of a KU win drop like a rock despite the stellar Ku defense.
LINKS
ESPN analytics favor TT over KU 55% of the time, with the spread favoring Tech by 3.5 points (Link)
asteroid's prediction model yields KU losing 58% of the time but basically a one possession game. link
CorpusJayhawk's Rock Chalk Challenge pregame - and so much more - writeup can be read here.
His basic DPPI projection has KU losing by 1 point 53% of the time.
He personally has KU winning 78-75.
Here's a link to the KUAthletics.com pregame article
The article contains links to the pregame KANSAS Notes
and the site includes the KUAthletics.com KU - TT series history
AY2025-26 Texas Tech Red Raiders MEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTER per ESPN.com
AY2025-26 KANSAS JAYHAWKS MEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTERLEGEND
$ Walk on (grandfathered in, so don't count against roster limits; no new W in the future under current guidelines)
~ Redshirting this season
* Past Redshirt
# Transfer with 1 year to play
Injury Status at Covers.com (Covers lists the latest Injury Status for each regular season and postseason game.)
KANSAS may not have the “Questionable” Elmarko Jackson.
Ttech, with F Luke Bamgboye returning from injury against UCF, is back to a full roster except for redshirting freshman F Latrell Hoover.
LET'S GO JAYHAWKS!
So I’m leavin’ the deliverin' to the ‘HAWKS!
ROCK CHALK, JAYHAWKS!
Add to the ESPN Big Monday glory on another KU MEN'S BASKETBALL...
... Buh duh DUH duh DUH DUH duh duh duh duh DUH DUH DUH ... BALL NIGHT!
Time for another JAYHAWKS ROAD WIN as our AP11 KANSAS JAYHAWKS travel deep into the Texas Panhandle to take on host AP13 Texas Tech at 8:00 PM CT on ESPN’s BIG MONDAY (Fran Fraschilla, Jon Sciambi and Angel Gray reporting)
7:30 PM CT The Crimson and Blue Show radio coverage begins, leading into Brian Hanni and Greg Gurley calling the game for the Jayhawk Radio Network on the kuleanplayer.
KEY FACTOIDS
Although KU leads the series 43*-9 (again, *THW the NCAA), Tech has won the last 2 games in the series, including a win in AFH. In a season where KANSAS still has a say in its destiny, the JAYHAWKS can still guarantee itself at least a share of the Big 12 title by winning out the rest of the way (a Herculean task, but just like “nuke from orbit" it’s the "only way to be sure”), today is just the latest "must win" game on the schedule. And although it is listed as a one or two possession game, our beloved boys in blue are not the favorite in those projections (except in the hearts of JAYHAWKS fans around the world, of course!).
DP is good for tonight. Elmarko is listed as questionable, meaning the short bench has become even shorter and more important than ever. Saturday’s exhaustive win over BYU leaves a big question mark about how much (as asteroid put it) the guys batteries have recharged by now. HCBS is going to have to earn his money time-managing the lads in Crimson & Blue to give them the best chance of winning. And, of course, DP has to last the whole game or the odds of a KU win drop like a rock despite the stellar Ku defense.
LINKS
ESPN analytics favor TT over KU 55% of the time, with the spread favoring Tech by 3.5 points (Link)
asteroid's prediction model yields KU losing 58% of the time but basically a one possession game. link
CorpusJayhawk's Rock Chalk Challenge pregame - and so much more - writeup can be read here.
His basic DPPI projection has KU losing by 1 point 53% of the time.
He personally has KU winning 78-75.
Here's a link to the KUAthletics.com pregame article
The article contains links to the pregame KANSAS Notes
and the site includes the KUAthletics.com KU - TT series history
AY2025-26 Texas Tech Red Raiders MEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTER per ESPN.com
Head Coach: Grant McCasland
# NAME POS HT WT CLASS BIRTHPLACE
1 Tyeree Bryan G 6' 5" 215 lbs SR Orlando, FL
2 Jazz Henderson G 5' 11" 180 lbs FR Dallas, TX
3 LeJuan Watts F 6' 6" 225 lbs JR Fresno, CA
4 Christian Anderson G 6' 3" 178 lbs SO Atlanta, GA
5 Josiah Moseley F 6' 8" 225 lbs SO Round Rock, TX
6 Leon Horner G 6' 4" 215 lbs SO Dallas, TX
8 Nolan Groves G 6' 5" 205 lbs FR Long Lake, MN
9 Luke Bamgboye F 6' 11" 220 lbs SO London, England
10 Jack Francis G 6' 3" 180 lbs SR Austin, TX
11 Jaylen Petty G 6' 1" 168 lbs FR Seattle, WA
12 Donovan Atwell G 6' 5" 200 lbs SR Huntersville, NC
13 Marial Akuentok F 6' 11" 240 lbs FR Edmonton, Canada
15 JT Toppin F 6' 9" 230 lbs JR Dallas, TX
21 LaTrell Hoover F 7' 0" 230 lbs FR San Antonio, TXAY2025-26 KANSAS JAYHAWKS MEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTER
# NAME POS HT / WT CLASS HOME
0 Nginyu Ngala# G 5-10/180 Gr Montreal, QC Canada
1 Jayden Dawson# G 6-4/195 Sr Omaha NE
3 Tre White# G 6-7/205 Sr Dallas TX
6 Samis Calderon F 6-8/200 Fr Espirito Santo Brazil
7 Kohl Rosario G 6-5/185 Fr Miami FL
11 Jamari McDowell SG 6-4/180 So* Manvel TX
12 Wilder Evers$ G 6-4/195 Jr* Birmingham AL
13 Elmarko Jackson PG 6-3/195 So* South Kent CT
14 Melvin Council Jr# G 6-4/185 Sr Rochester NY
15 Bryson Tiller F 6-10/240 Fr* Atlanta GA
21 Will Thengvall$ G 6-3/185 So Wichita KS
22 Darryn Peterson G 6-5/195 Fr Canton OH
25 Justin Cross$ F 6-8/200 Sr* South Kent CT
34 Paul Mbiya C 6-11/260 Fr Dem Rep Congo
40 Flory Bidunga C 6-9/220 So Dem Rep Congo
REDSHIRT THIS YEAR
2 Corbin Allen G 6-6/185 Fr~ Kansas City MO$ Walk on (grandfathered in, so don't count against roster limits; no new W in the future under current guidelines)
~ Redshirting this season
* Past Redshirt
# Transfer with 1 year to play
Injury Status at Covers.com (Covers lists the latest Injury Status for each regular season and postseason game.)
KANSAS may not have the “Questionable” Elmarko Jackson.
Ttech, with F Luke Bamgboye returning from injury against UCF, is back to a full roster except for redshirting freshman F Latrell Hoover.
LET'S GO JAYHAWKS!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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