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About No. 6 Kansas (19-6, 7-5): KU leads the all-time series 156-69 including a 23-20 record in Lloyd Noble Center. … KU has won six in a row and nine of 10 against the Sooners. … Bill Self is 28-6 versus Oklahoma as KU coach; Porter Moser is 0-5 versus KU as OU coach. … KU won this year’s first meeting, 78-66, on Jan. 13 at Allen Fieldhouse. Hunter Dickinson scored 24 points with 14 rebounds and five blocks. Kevin McCullar had 21 points, four boards and four assists. KJ Adams had 15 points and 10 boards. For OU, Javian McCollum had 17 points but had six of OU’s 11 turnovers. Milos Uzan had 15 points. OU hit 6 of 20 3s; KU 3 of 15. … Freshman guard Johnny Furphy has scored in double figures 10 times. Senior guard Nicolas Timberlake, who had 13 points in Monday’s 79-50 loss at Texas Tech, has scored in double figures four times this season and 61 times in his career. … Senior guard Dajuan Harris surpassed 800 career points with his third point at Tech. … KU is 120-18 following a loss in the Bill Self era. … The Kansas duo of Dickinson and McCullar have been named to the 2024 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Men’s College Player of the Year Midseason Team, the Naismith Awards announced. Kansas, Houston, North Carolina and Purdue are the only schools to have two athletes listed among the 30 named to the Naismith Trophy Midseason Team. Dickinson and McCullar are vying to become the third player from Kansas to win the Naismith Trophy, joining Danny Manning (1988) and Frank Mason III (2017).
About No. 25 Oklahoma (18-7, 6-6): Oklahoma lost to Baylor, 79-62, on Tuesday in Waco, Texas. The loss snapped a two-game winning streak. … The Sooners are 4-2 at home in league action. … Oklahoma is ranked 33rd overall and eighth in the Big 12 in the NET. Ten Big 12 teams are in the top 40. Kansas is 17th overall and fifth in the conference. … Junior Javian McCollum, who has a career free throw percentage of 89.6%, has made 207 free throws in 231 attempts. Senior Sam Godwin is ninth among NCAA Division One active career leaders in field goal percentage, making 64.0% (251-392) of his shots. … Oklahoma is 16-2 this season when scoring 70 or more points and 16-0 when holding its opponents to 70 points or less. … Oklahoma ranks in the top 60 nationally in seven categories. The Sooners are 13th in 3-point percentage defense (28.9%), 28th in field goal percentage defense (40.4%), 41st in scoring margin (10.1 ppg), 46th in scoring defense (66.6 ppg), 49th in rebound margin (5.0 rpg), 54th in field goal percentage (47.3%) and 56th in free throws made per game (15.8). … Oklahoma holds a 77-27 record at Lloyd Noble Center since 2017. The Sooners have won 82.9% (610-127) of their games at Lloyd Noble since the building opened in 1975. OU’s winning percentage at Lloyd Noble Center is second in the Big 12 only to Kansas’ 87.9% at Allen Fieldhouse (853-117). … Oklahoma will recognize former head coach Billy Tubbs on Saturday. Tubbs led the Sooners for 14 seasons (1980-94) and compiled a 333-132 record (.716), finishing with the most wins in program history. He ended his career with a 609-317 (.658) record as a Division I head coach. He died on Nov. 1, 2020 at the age of 85. … Porter Moser is 52-40 in three seasons at OU.
The league released its list of 2024 NFL Scouting Combine invitees on Tuesday, with three former Oklahoma football players earning a bid. However, not among the 321 players sent an invite to showcase their talents is former Sooners standout and near 1,000-yard receiver Drake Stoops.
Kansas road games were starting to feel a bit formulaic — or even predictable — before this one. The Jayhawks have had issues giving up a ton of 3-pointers to their opponents when stepping away from Allen Fieldhouse. The 3-point disparity has caused problems for the Jayhawks and led to plenty of losses thus far.
