KU-Tennessee lineups, tipoff time, TV information, facts and figures
Here are projected starters with TV and radio information for the Kansas Jayhawks-Tennessee Volunteers game on Friday night at the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn, N.Y.
When/where: Approximately 8:30 p.m., Central time, Friday, Barclays Center. Game will start 30 minutes after a 6 p.m., consolation contest between Marquette and Louisville.
TV/radio: ESPN2; WHB (810 AM)
Projected lineups:
Tennessee (4-0)
F 2 Grant Williams 6-7 Jr. 22.5
F 11 Kyle Alexander 6-11 Sr. 11.3
G 0 Jordan Bone 6-3 Jr. 13.5
G 5 Admiral Schofield 6-6 Sr. 14.0
G 23 Jordan Bowden 6-5 Jr. 7.5
Kansas (4-0)
C 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 Jr. 15.8
F 1 Dedric Lawson 6-9 Jr. 16.3
G 11 Devon Dotson 6-2 Fr. 9.3
G 5 Quentin Grimes 6-5 Fr. 10.0
G 24 Lagerald Vick 6-5 Sr. 20.8
ABOUT TENNESSEE: Tennessee, which stopped Louisville, 92-81, on Wednesday in an NIT semifinal, has defeated Lenore-Rhyne, 86-41, Louisiana, 87-65, and Georgia Tech, 66-53, all in Knoxville. … The Vols went 26-9 last season, winning the SEC Championship (13-5 in league) and securing a No. 3 seed in the NCAAs … UT was picked to finish second in the 2018-19 SEC regular-season race, behind Kentucky. ... Junior forward Grant Williams was picked to repeat as SEC player of the year. Senior guard Admiral Schofield was named a preseason all-SEC second-team pick. Williams and Schofield against Louisville both eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for their collegiate careers. They became the 49th and 50th players, respectively, to achieve the standard at Tennessee… Tennessee has won 10 SEC championships but has never captured consecutive conference crowns. In addition to Tennessee’s 10 SEC titles, the Vols also won the SEC Tournament in 1979. … A league title this season would give head coach Rick Barnes his first back-to-back league titles. He enters the 2018-19 campaign with three Big 12 (Texas) and one SEC championship. ... Barnes owns 665 Division I wins (358 losses) in his 32 seasons as a head coach. That’s one more win than legendary UCLA coach John Wooden during his career. … UT won the 2010 NIT Season Tip-Off title by defeating VCU and Villanova. UT defeated Rutgers before falling to Seton Hall in the 1992 Tip-Off. In 2006, UT lost to Butler and North Carolina. … Tennessee owns an 8-16 all-time record in New York City. …
ABOUT KANSAS: Kansas leads the all-time series against Tennessee, 2-1. The Jayhawks won the last meeting, 82-67, in the Orlando Classic on Nov. 28, 2014, in Florida. KU beat Tennessee, 92-85, on Jan. 3, 2009 in Allen Fieldhouse and lost to the Vols, 76-68, on Jan. 10, 2010, in Knoxville. … Junior forward Dedric Lawson scored 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in KU’s NIT semifinal win over Marquette on Wednesday for his 38th double double and second as a Jayhawk. … Lagerald Vick was 3 of 5 from three versus Marquette. Since going 1 for 7 against Michigan State in his first game of the season, he has made 29 of 44 threes. … KU is 4-0 for the second-straight season and eighth time in Bill Self’s 16 seasons at KU. .. KU is 19-3 all-time in the NIT Season Tip-Off and has reached the finals five times in six NITs. KU won the event in 1989, 1993 and 1997. The Jayhawks were second in 1985 and fourth in 2002. … KU is 65-65 under Self when trailing at halftime. … KU has trailed by eight or more points in each of its last three games. … The Jayhawks committed just three turnovers in the second half Wednesday against Marquette and their eight total turnovers were a season low.
Gary Bedore
Gary Bedore covers University of Kansas athletics for The Star.
This story was originally published November 22, 2018 at 2:01 PM with the headline "KU-Tennessee lineups, tipoff time, TV information, facts and figures."