Kansas basketball will play another road exhibition game before 2025-26 season
KU basketball will travel to Louisville, Kentucky, to face the Louisville Cardinals in an exhibition game at the KFC YUM Center on October 24.
The game time and television information have not been announced. The Cardinals will then travel to Lawrence for an exhibition game on a yet-to-be-determined date in the 2026-27 season.
Kansas coach Bill Self is familiar with the KFC YUM Center.
“We’ve been in (that arena) once. We got beat, Villanova in the Elite Eight, so obviously a great memory,” KU coach Bill Self joked Tuesday. “But we’ll be excited to go back.”
Self believes it’ll be a quality test before the regular season begins for the Jayhawks. Kansas has played two road exhibition games in recent years: Arkansas last season and Illinois in the 2023-24 season.
“We’ve been beaten the last two years in a road game, even though they weren’t real games, but I think it’s good preparation for, especially, an early-season game,” Self said. “Louisville should be loaded. It’ll be a tough start to what will be a ridiculously hard schedule.”
KU leads the all-time series 6-5 over Louisville. The Cardinals come off an impressive first year under coach Pat Kelsey, who led them to a 27-8 record and No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Louisville ultimately lost to Creighton in the first round.
This story was originally published June 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM with the headline "Kansas basketball will play another road exhibition game before 2025-26 season."
