Kansas Jayhawks vs. Missouri Tigers basketball: Probable starters, tipoff, TV, notes
No. 1-ranked Kansas basketball meets the Missouri Tigers at 12 p.m. Sunday at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.
KU has won two games in Lawrence and one in Columbia as the six-game, six year series continues. The final two games of the renewed Border War series will be in 2025-26 and 26-27 at T-Mobile Center.
Here’s what you need to know before tipoff.
KU basketball at Missouri: Game details
When: 12 p.m., Sunday
Where: Mizzou Arena (Columbia, Missouri)
TV: ESPN2
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita
PROBABLE STARTERS
P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 24 | KJ Adams | 6-7 | Sr. | 9.6 |
C | 1 | Hunter Dickinson | 7-2 | Sr. | 14.5 |
G | 5 | Zeke Mayo | 6-4 | Sr. | 11.8 |
G | 3 | Dajuan Harris | 6-2 | Sr. | 10.4 |
G | 2 | AJ Storr | 6-7 | Jr. | 9.0 |
P | No. | Missouri | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
F | 25 | Mark Mitchell | 6-9 | Jr. | 12.3 |
C | 33 | Josh Gray | 7-0 | Sr. | 3.0 |
G | 0 | Anthony Robinson | 6-3 | Soph. | 12.0 |
G | 2 | Tamar Bates | 6-5 | Sr. | 12.3 |
G | 6 | Annor Boateng | 6-6 | Fr. | 3.6 |
About No. 1 Kansas (7-1)
KU leads the all-time series 176-95. The Jayhawks have won five in a row, 10 of 11 and 15 of 17 in the series. ... The Jayhawks topped the Tigers 73-64 in the last meeting held on Dec. 9, 2023, at Allen Fieldhouse. The last meeting in Columbia was a 95-67 KU victory on Dec. 10, 2022. …
Kansas is 7-1 for the sixth straight season. KU has been 7-1 or better in 17 of 22 seasons under coach Bill Self. … Kansas is 0-1 in true road games this season and 2-1 in games not played in Allen Fieldhouse. … Self is 595-144 while at KU, 802-249 all-time. … Kansas recorded 11 steals Wednesday in a 76-63 loss at Creighton. It is the third game this season with 10+ steals as a team. …
Dajuan Harris has scored in double figures in three of his last four games and five games overall this season. He has 22 assists and three turnovers in his last three games. Harris has multiple steals in four of his last five games. … Zeke Mayo has score 10 or more points in 87 career games, five times this season. … AJ Storr has scored four times in double figures this season, 52 times in his career. …
Hunter Dickinson has recorded eight or more rebounds in five games. … Freshman guard Rakease Passmore played 10 minutes vs. Creighton. His season high is 16 minutes vs. Howard.
About Missouri (7-1)
The Tigers improved to 7-1 by defeating California, 98-93, Tuesday at Mizzou Arena. … MU hasn’t lost a game since falling to Memphis, 83-75, in the season opener for both teams at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. ...
The Tigers are 4-20 all-time against the country’s No. 1 ranked team with a 3-5 mark in Columbia. Mizzou has lost its last 10 games versus the top-ranked team, last falling to Auburn, 55-54, in 2022. ... The Tigers’ last win over the nation’s No. 1 team was in 1997; MU handed Kansas its only regular-season loss in a 96-94 double overtime decision. ... Overall, Mizzou owns three wins over a No. 1 Kansas team (in nine attempts), also posting two victories in 1990. ...
The Tigers rank second in the country with 22.4 made free throws per game. ... Mizzou ranks first nationally in field goal percentage (52.6%). ... Sunday’s game features the country’s top two active scorers in Hunter Dickinson (2,324 points) and Marques Warrick (2,318). ... Junior Aidan Shaw has blocked three or more shots in five games in his MU career. He had two blocks vs. Cal. …
Dennis Gates is 90-75 in three seasons at MU. He is 0-2 vs. KU. … Mark Mitchell, who started his career at Duke, is one of 20 players named to the Julius Erving Award watch list, presented to the country’s top small forward. He averages 12.3 points and 4.8 rebounds a game at Mizzou after last year’s averages of 11.6 ppg and 6.0 rpg. … Two time Arkansas high school player of the year Annor Boateng averages 3.6 points in seven games. …
Mizzou and Southeast Missouri are the only two teams in the country to feature three 7-footers on their rosters. The MU 7-footers are Trent Burns (7-5), Josh Gray (7-0) and Peyton Marshall (7-0). Burns is the tied for the tallest player in school history and the second-tallest in the country this season, behind only Florida’s Olivier Rioux at 7-9.
This story was originally published December 8, 2024 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Kansas Jayhawks vs. Missouri Tigers basketball: Probable starters, tipoff, TV, notes."
