KU Basketball: Where To Watch Jayhawks Vs Harvard

KU Basketball hosts Harvard Crimson in Allen Fieldhouse, looks for fifth-straight win.

The No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks (5-1) haven’t lost in nearly three weeks, and they welcome Harvard (2-5) today in the second of KU’s five-consecutive home games. They’re also the second highest-scoring team in the NCAA at 93.5 points per game.

Freshman big man Cheick Diallo made an impressive debut in Kansas’ 94-61 win over Loyola Maryland last Tuesday. He’ll get his second shot at earning more minutes in an already crowded rotation. Harvard’s tallest starter is 6′ 9″, so look for Diallo and KU Basketball to have the size advantage today.

Harvard enters the game having lost back-to-back games to Holy Cross and Northeastern. Their led by junior center Zena Edosomwan, who averages 13.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, and they always seem to run effective offense. Edosomwan posted 18 points and 15 rebounds against UMASS earlier this season.

It’s still a trio of Jayhawks who continue to lead the way for the defending Big 12 Champs. Upperclassmen Perry Ellis, Wayne Selden Jr., and Frank Mason III are the team’s three leading scorers, as the rest of the team follows suit. That could change with the addition of Diallo, but there’s no question who KU’s three best players have been.

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Who: Harvard Crimson

Where: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS

When: Saturday, December 5, 2:15 p.m. CT

How: Jayhawk TV; ESPN2

KU Basketball Live Stream: WatchESPN

You can watch the Jayhawks on the local broadcast on Jayhawk TV, or you can catch the game live on ESPN2. If not, you can watch the KU Basketball live stream on WatchESPN, which delivers live access to many live events on ESPN if you have the proper credentials. In any other case, you’ll likely have to find a different spot to watch the KU Basketball take on Loyola Maryland.

Selden leads the team in points per game with 17.2. He’s shooting 55 percent from the field (57 percent from three-point range) and he’s giving Kansas 3.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game as well. Ellis is averaging 15.3 points and six rebounds, and he’s been efficient from the floor, too, shooting 53 percent.

As for Mason, he’s among the shortest players on the team, and yet he’s the leading defensive rebounder, according to Jesse Newell of the Topeka Capital-Journal:

"“We’ve got some decent block-out guys, but not guys that just attack the ball,” Self said. “He attacks the ball better than anybody else we have without question.”The numbers bear that out as well.Through six games, Mason — the only sub-6-foot player on KU’s 16-man roster — leads the team in defensive rebounds with 27. Perry Ellis is second with 24, while Jamari Traylor and Landen Lucas have 22 apiece."

Junior guard Brannen Greene will sit out the fifth game of his six-game suspension. He’s set to return when KU takes on Oregon State at the Sprint Center on Dec. 12, but there’s not exactly a spot waiting for him when he returns. He’s the team’s best shooter, so there’s a role for him on the team, but he’s not helping anything by being suspended.

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Kansas won the 2015 Maui Invitational are now in the middle of a five-game homestand. How do you think the Jayhawks will handle the Harvard offense today?

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