The Kansas basketball team will meet up with the Syracuse Orange in a battle of unbeatens Saturday as the final matchup of the Hoophall Miami Invitational.
The Kansas Jayhawks will finally play another school with pedigree when they tip off against the Syracuse Orange in the marquee matchup of the Hoophall Miami Invitational.
The Jayhawks are 6-0 but have played a cupcake schedule so far this season, with the lone exception being the Kentucky Wildcats.
The schedule for the Orange hasn’t been any tougher. Their big win was against Maryland, 72-70, earlier this week. The two teams share three opponents, and Syracuse outscored those three schools 226-181 combined, while Kansas beat those teams 312-188.
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KANSAS BASKETBALL LIVE STREAM AND TV INFO
- Who: Syracuse Orange (6-0)
- Where: American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
- Tipoff Time: Saturday, December 2, 4:30 p.m. CT
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Kansas Basketball Live Stream: WatchESPN
If you are subscribed to a cable service that carries ESPN, you can watch the Kansas basketball live stream against the Syracuse Orange online at WatchESPN.
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KANSAS BASKETBALL NOTES
The Jayhawks are averaging 94.5 points a game thus far this season, and 100.4 points against every school not named Kentucky.
According to Matt Tait of KUSports.com, Toledo coach Tod Kowalczyk was mightily impressed with KU after the Jayhawks thrashed the Rockets, 96-58, on Tuesday.
"“…in 30 years of college coaching, that’s as good of a team as I’ve ever seen. They’re on ice skates and everybody else is in sneakers. They’re just that fast. And they’re so unselfish and move the ball.”"
Syracuse and Kansas have played five times in the past, with the Jayhawks winning two. The last time they played was in 2008, when the Orange won, 89-81. The biggest clash between these two titans came in the 2003 National Championship game, when Syracuse nudged KU, 81-78, to win the title.
KANSAS BASKETBALL STAT LEADERS
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- Points – Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk – 18.2 ppg
- Rebounds – Marcus Garrett – 7.2 rpg
- Assists – Devonte’ Graham – 8.5 apg
- Field Goal Percentage – Udoka Azubuike – 75.9 percent (44 for 58)
- Three-point Percentage – Mykhailiuk – 56.4 percent (22 for 39)
- Free Throw Percentage – Malik Newman – 100 percent (11 for 11)
Kansas has four players with regular minutes who shoot 50 percent or better from three – Mykhailiuk, Lagerald Vick, Newman, and Mitch Lightfoot. The team is shooting 71.8 percent from the charity stripe, but 81.5 percent without Azubuike’s horrendous 40 percent (eight for 20).
Three players – Garrett, Vick, and Azubuike – average at least 6.7 rebounds a game. Graham has better than a three-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio.
These stats are fantastic, but the Jayhawks have accumulated most of these numbers against schools far below them in size and talent. We’ll see how great they look against more comparable competition.
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The Kansas basketball team is about to get a dose of reality. Syracuse should provide them a much better measuring stick to see how good they really might be. The Jayhawks most likely won’t be scoring 100 points against Power Five conference schools as they did against those low major teams they’ve routing every night.