KU Jayhawks matched against North Carolina State in first round of Battle 4 Atlantis
Kansas’ men’s basketball team will meet North Carolina State in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament to take place Thanksgiving week in the Bahamas, tourney officials announced Friday on Twitter.
The first-round contest between the Big 12 and ACC teams will begin at 11 a.m. Central Time on Nov. 23 in the basketball arena located in the Atlantis resort at Paradise Island. It will be shown on ESPN.
If KU wins, the Jayhawks would meet the winner of the Dayton-Wisconsin contest (1:30 p.m., Nov. 23) in the second round on Nov. 24.
The other side of the bracket will feature USC versus Brigham Young and Tennessee versus Butler. USC-BYU will start at 4 p.m. and UT-Butler at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 23. The semifinals are Nov. 24 and the finals Nov. 25.
North Carolina State, which is led by sixth-year coach Kevin Keatts, went 11-21 a year ago. The Wolfpack had a 4-16 record in the ACC. KU is 11-1 all-time against N.C. State. The two teams last met in the NCAA Tournament on March 23, 2012 in St. Louis. KU won the Sweet 16 game, 60-57.
During the 2022-23 nonconference season, KU also will play Duke in the Champions Classic on Nov. 15 in Indianapolis, as well as Missouri (Dec. 10 in Columbia), Seton Hall (Dec. 1, Allen Fieldhouse), Indiana (Dec. 17, Allen Fieldhouse) and Kentucky (Jan. 28, Lexington, Kentucky).
This story was originally published July 30, 2022 at 10:21 AM with the headline "KU Jayhawks matched against North Carolina State in first round of Battle 4 Atlantis."
