Kansas basketball vs. Arizona State Sun Devils: Starters, tipoff time & TV
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- Kansas seeks road bounceback after 84-61 loss to Arizona in Tucson.
- Arizona State rides 73-60 home win and Diop’s strong rim protection.
- Game impact: Peterson’s scoring, ASU’s defense and Hurley’s coaching record.
Kansas men’s basketball, which lost to Arizona 84-61 on Saturday afternoon, will meet Arizona State to complete a two-game, five-day road trip on Tuesday night in Tempe.
Here’s what you need to know before tipoff:
Kansas vs. Arizona State: How to watch
When: 8 p.m. Central, Tuesday.
Where: Desert Financial Arena, Tempe, Arizona.
TV: FS1.
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM).
Probable starters
KANSAS (21-8, 11-5)
F (No. 40) — Flory Bidunga, 6-10, Soph., 13.8 ppg
F ( 15) — Bryson Tiller, 6-11, Fr., 8.7
G (3) — Tre White, 6-7, Sr., 14.0
G (14) — Melvin Council Jr., 6-4, Sr., 13.5
G (22) — Darryn Peterson, 6-6, Fr., 19.7
ARIZONA STATE (15-14, 6-10)
C (No. 35) — Massamba Diop, 7-1, Fr., 13.8 ppg
F (1) — Santiago Trouet, 6-11, Soph., 8.0
F (14) —Andrija Grbovic, 6-8, Sr., 6.8
G (15) — Noah Meeusen., 6-5, Soph., 5.9
G (5) — Moe Odum, 6-2, Sr., 17.1
About Arizona State (15-14, 6-10)
The Sun Devils are coming off Saturday’s 73-60 home victory over Utah. Prior to the Utah game, ASU had lost to TCU 90-78 in Fort Worth, Texas, and to Baylor 73-68 in Waco. …. The Sun Devils are 5-5 in their last 10 games. …
ASU has won 14 games against ranked teams under 11th-year coach Bobby Hurley including a 72-67 victory over No. 13 Texas Tech on Feb. 17 in Tempe. ASU defeated No. 1 KU 80-76 on Dec. 22, 2018 in Tempe and also beat No. 2 KU 95-85 on Dec. 10, 2017 in Lawrence. … Hurley has a 183-165 record at Arizona State … Former KU assistant Jerrance Howard is an assistant on Hurley’s ASU staff. …
Marcus Adams, who signed with KU but never played for the Jayhawks, has been out of action since early January with an injury. He’s averaged 3.6 points a game in 14 games. He played one game at BYU in 2023-24 and 32 games at Cal State Northridge last season. …
ASU has reached the Elite Eight three times throughout history: 1975, 1963 and 1961. …
Massamba Diop has 43 blocks in Big 12 games. He had four blocks, 14 points and five boards vs. Utah on Saturday. He has 18 games with two or more blocks, including 10 of his last 11 games. He now has 62 blocks in 29 games.
About No. 14 KU (21-8, 11-5)
The all-time series between KU and Arizona State is tied at 6-6. The Jayhawks are 0-4 versus ASU in Tempe, 0-3 in Desert Financial Arena. KU has lost two of the last three meetings. The Jayhawks won 74-55 on Jan. 8, 2025 at Allen Fieldhouse in the last meeting between the teams. ...
Bill Self is 1-2 versus the Sun Devils as KU coach; Bobby Hurley 2-1 against KU as ASU coach … Kansas is 9-6 in games not played in Allen Fieldhouse, 5-5 in true road games. … Self is 630-164 while at KU, 837-269 all-time. …
Kansas hit 10-of-11 free throws Saturday at Arizona and has now shot 80% or better from the line in 12 games. This season, Kansas is shooting 79.4% (244-of-307) from the line. The Kansas school record for the highest free throw percentage in a season is 73.7% set in 2012-13. …
Kansas is 139-24 (85.3%) following a loss in the Bill Self era (2003-04 to present), including 7-0 this season. ... Kansas is No. 15 in the NET, which is fifth in the Big 12. KU’s seven Quad 1 wins are tied for second most in the league. Arizona is first with 13.
Darryn Peterson has scored in double figures in 17 games. Peterson has scored 10+ points in all 17 games of his career. He has scored at least 20 points in eight games. … Peterson is 17th in school history for points by a KU freshman in a season. …
Flory Bidunga recorded one block on Saturday and now has 78 for the season and 132 for his career. Bidunga is tied for 10th in single-season KU history for blocked shots, tying Eric Chenowith (1999). … Tre White has 702 career rebounds. … Melvin Council Jr. has scored in double figures in 22 games this season, 78 in his career.
This story was originally published March 3, 2026 at 7:30 AM with the headline "Kansas basketball vs. Arizona State Sun Devils: Starters, tipoff time & TV."
