KU Basketball: Where To Watch Jayhawks Vs Holy Cross

KU Basketball hosts Holy Cross tonight in Allen Fieldhouse, looks for sixth consecutive win.

The No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks (6-1) fought off a scrappy Harvard Crimson team in Saturday’s 75-69 victory at home. KU takes the floor tonight against a Holy Cross Crusaders team that defeated Harvard just ten days ago.

Trap game alert for KU. They play Oregon State this Saturday in the Kansas City Shootout at the Sprint Center, and Holy Cross (3-5) is a Patriot League team that may not grab one’s full attention. Holy Cross is led by junior forward Malachi Alexander, who averages 11.1 points, six rebounds and three assists.

Four Jayhawks average 25 minutes or more, while the next seven leading minute-getters average between 10 and 18 minutes per game. The top four – Perry Ellis, Frank Mason III, Wayne Selden Jr., Devonte’ Graham – probably isn’t going to change. But with the addition of freshman Cheick Diallo to the rotation, a lot of those leftover minutes might be harder to come by for the KU bench.

Kansas is third in the NCAA in points per game (90.9) and fourth in the nation shooting 44.5% from three-point range. They’re 14th in the nation in field goal percentage, shooting better than 50 percent as a team. The only troubling part is the team’s 66.9 percent shooting from the free throw line.

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Who: Holy Cross Crusaders

Where: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS

When: Wednesday, December 9, 7 p.m. CT

How: Jayhawk TV; ESPN3

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 ESPN3. 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 KU Basketball take on Holy Cross.

Mason, a junior point guard from Petersburg, Virginia, leads the team in minutes, points, assists and steals. He leads the team, period. He’s the heartbeat of the team, the captain of the ship, and he’s proving to be cut-out for the job. Together with Ellis and Selden, KU Basketball has a trio of talented upperclassmen they haven’t had in recent years.

Ellis averages 14.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game, but in the three games since he scored 24 points versus Vanderbilt on Nov. 25, he’s shooting just 11-for-28 from the field and he’s 7-of-16 from the free throw line. According to KUSports.com‘s Tom Keegan, Ellis could be dealing with some lingering hip pain, even though he won’t admit it:

"Self stopped himself to clarify he wasn’t blasting his senior star.“I’m not speaking negatively at all, because I love his game,” Self said. “I think he’s so good. He hasn’t been himself. He hasn’t been aggressive, so I don’t know if he has a flu bug or something going on. Even tonight, he didn’t make moves with any authority and certainly got the ball right where he wanted it and wasn’t able to finish.”"

It’s the final game of junior Brannen Greene‘s suspension. He’ll be eligible to return Saturday, but it remains to be seen what his role will be going forward. Greene is too good of a shooter to sit on the end of the bench, but he has plenty to prove when it comes to defense and rebounding before he can lock down 15 minutes per game.

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Kansas continues to pile on the points at a much higher clip than many Bill Self teams, but it’s still too early in the season take any statistics too seriously. How do you think the Jayhawks will handle the Holy Cross Crusaders today?

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