Kansas vs. Kentucky at Champions Classic: Probable starters, tipoff, TV info and more

THE DETAILS

When/where: 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, United Center, Chicago.

TV: ESPN.

Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM) in Wichita.

PROBABLE STARTERS

About No. 17 Kentucky (2-0): The Wildcats are 9-16 all-time in games played against the country’s No. 1 team. … Coach John Calipari is 6-4 vs. the AP’s No. 1 team in his career including a 3-2 mark at Kentucky. … Kentucky is 69-49 (58.5%) vs. AP top 25 teams under Calipari. UK is 7-5 when both teams are ranked in the AP top five … Kentucky is 5-7 all-time in the Champions Classic and 2-2 vs. KU. … Kentucky, the winningest program of all time, started the season with 2,375 all-time victories against 748 losses. KU, which had 15 victories taken away as a result of Silvio De Sousa’s ineligibility during the 2017-18 season, opened the season second all time with 2,370 wins against 885 losses. Both teams are 2-0 this season thus UK leads KU by five games on the all-time wins list. … Freshman guard D.J. Wagner and frosh forward Justin Edwards played in the 2023 McDonald’s All-America game. … Kentucky was picked fourth in the Southeastern Conference Preseason media poll, behind Tennessee, Texas A&M and Arkansas. … Edwards was named a preseason first-team all-SEC selection while senior guard Antonio Reeves earned second-team preseason all-SEC honors by the media. Reeves was a first-team honoree and Edwards on the second team as voted by the coaches. … Starting forward Tre Mitchell averaged 11.7 points and 5.5 rebounds a game last season at West Virginia. …Calipari is 389-113 in 15 seasons at Kentucky. … Calipari will receive the John R. Wooden Award Legends of Coaching honor in 2024. Calipari will be presented with the honor along with the 2024 Wooden Award winners on April 12, 2024. … Calipari was an assistant coach at Kansas from 1982-85 under coaches Ted Owens and Larry Brown. ... KU head coach Bill Self was a graduate assistant at Kansas under Brown in 1985-86.

About No. 1 KU (2-0): KU trails 24-11 in the Jayhawks’ all-time series against Kentucky. However, KU has won two of the last three and five of the last seven games vs. the Wildcats.. ... KU is 7-5 all-time in the Champions Classic and 2-2 vs. Kentucky. … KU has won six of its last seven games in the Champions Classic. … KU coach Self’s KU teams are 120-72 against teams ranked in the AP top 25. KU is 35-26 in the Self era versus the top 25 on neutral courts. … Under 21st-year coach Self, this is the 18th time that KU entered the season ranked seventh or higher in the AP preseason poll. The No. 1 ranking marks the 26th time since the 1992-93 season that Kansas has entered the season seventh or higher. … KU is No. 1 again this week; UK No. 17. ... Eleven of the last 14 and 17 of Kansas’ last 23 losses have been to ranked teams. … KU was 7-7 against AP ranked foes in 2022-23, including 4-2 versus top 10 teams. … KU has held opponents to fewer than 100 points in 766 of its last 769 games. The last team to score 100 on Kansas in a 40-minute game was Gonzaga (102-90) on Nov. 26, 2020 with the previous being Oklahoma (100-78) on Feb. 27, 1990. … Kansas is 2-0 for the 12th time in Self’s 21 seasons . … Hunter Dickinson has scored in double figures 50 times in his career, including in both of his games at Kansas. Dickinson secured his 800th career rebound in the second half of Friday’s win over Manhattan. ... Kevin McCullar grabbed his 600th career rebound in the first half vs. Manhattan. … Parker Braun has 19 double-digit scoring games in his career, including in both of his games at Kansas. He also has played at Missouri and Santa Clara. … Kansas has scored at least 90 points in the first two games of the season for the first time since 2020. ... Through two games, Kansas leads the country in field goal percentage at 62.6% and is second in assists per game at 29.5.