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KANSAS gaining on UK this season
1 month 4 weeks ago - 1 month 4 weeks ago #34658
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"
2026-02-22 data
KANSAS started the season trailing UK in All-Time Wins by 8 wins.
It is a possibility – low odds, but a possibility – that KANSAS could catch or even pass now unranked UK by the time the dust has settled on AY2025-26.
UK has lost three games in a row in the last week and a half and dropped out of the Top 25 rankings for both AP and USA Today/Coaches polls
Over the course of the season to date @2026-02-22 KANSAS has closed to within 5 wins of UK.
REMAINING UK SCHEDULE @2026-02-22
Probabilities of winning [P(W)] are from ESPN Analytics
REMAINING KANSAS SCHEDULE @2026-02-22
Probabilities of winning [P(W)] are from ESPN AnalyticsIf our guys have their game together these next 2 weeks they could enter the postseason having closed to within 4 or even 3 Wins of UK.
And with a good run in the postseason tournaments, coupled with a bad run for UK, KANSAS could catch them and possibly even pass them (see 2022).
Yes, of course it could go the other way.
We’re looking at best case scenario for KANSAS, so we are being "corny as Kansas in August" and "cock-eyed optimists."
(IYKYK)
ROCK CHALK!
KANSAS started the season trailing UK in All-Time Wins by 8 wins.
It is a possibility – low odds, but a possibility – that KANSAS could catch or even pass now unranked UK by the time the dust has settled on AY2025-26.
UK has lost three games in a row in the last week and a half and dropped out of the Top 25 rankings for both AP and USA Today/Coaches polls
Over the course of the season to date @2026-02-22 KANSAS has closed to within 5 wins of UK.
RANK PROGRAM WON LOST WIN% CYW CYL CYW% WB
1 Kentucky 2439 780 .757 17 10 .630
2 Kansas 2434 916 .727 20 7 .741 5REMAINING UK SCHEDULE @2026-02-22
Probabilities of winning [P(W)] are from ESPN Analytics
Feb 23 Mon @South Carolina P(W) = 76%
Feb 28 Sat AP25 Vanderbilt P(W) = 56% (1)
Mar 3 Tue @Texas A&M P(W) = 44%
Mar 7 Sat AP7 Florida P(W) = 41%
POST SEASON
SEC T #Ws?
NCAA T #Ws?
(1) Vandy beat UK earlier this season in Nashville, so even greater incentive for UK.REMAINING KANSAS SCHEDULE @2026-02-22
Probabilities of winning [P(W)] are from ESPN Analytics
Feb 23 Mon UH P(W) = 40%
Feb 28 Sat @UA P(W) = 18%
Mar 3 Tue @ASU P(W) = 79%
Mar 7 Sat KSU P(W) = 91%
POST SEASON
B12 T #Ws?
NCAA T #Ws?And with a good run in the postseason tournaments, coupled with a bad run for UK, KANSAS could catch them and possibly even pass them (see 2022).
Yes, of course it could go the other way.
We’re looking at best case scenario for KANSAS, so we are being "corny as Kansas in August" and "cock-eyed optimists."
(IYKYK)
ROCK CHALK!
"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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