No. 1 seed KU Jayhawks vs. No. 16 Howard Bison in NCAA Tournament: Starters, TV, time

THE DETAILS

When: 1 p.m., Thursday

Where: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa

TV: TBS

Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; KFH (1240 AM, 97.5 FM) in Wichita

PROBABLE STARTERS

About No. 1 seed Kansas (27-7, 13-5 Big 12):

Kansas leads the all-time series with Howard 2-0. KU defeated the Bison of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 100-67 in a first-round NCAA Tournament game on March 20, 1992, in Dayton, Ohio. KU prevailed over the Bison 89-34 on Dec. 29, 2011, at Allen Fieldhouse. In the tourney game in 1992, Greg Ostertag led the way with 16 points. Adonis Jordan had 15, Eric Pauley 12 and Rex Walters 10 with seven assists. Julius McNeil led Howard with 12 points. KU went on to lose in the second round to UTEP 66-60. … The team that beat Howard in 2011 wound up reaching the 2012 NCAA title game. ...

KU is in the NCAA tourney for the 51st time. The Jayhawks are 115-48 in the event. ... KU has advanced to 32 Sweet 16 contests, 16 Final Fours. ... This marks KU’s 33rd consecutive tourney, a national record. … KU is playing as the No. 1 seed for the 16th time in program history and fifth time in the last seven NCAAs. ... Kansas has posted a 45-13 record as a No. 1 seed after winning the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed in 2022. … Kansas is 15-0 all-time against No. 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. ... This marks the 23rd straight season KU has earned a top-four seed, including 19 under Bill Self. ...

Jalen Wilson’s 24-point outing Saturday versus Texas marked his 27th career game with 20+ points, including his fifth-straight game. He also passed Wilt Chamberlain for No. 27 on KU’s all-time scoring list with 1,435 career points. … KU is 5-2 in neutral site games. … Kansas is now 2-7 in games after trailing at half. … Freshman Gradey Dick has moved into a tie for seventh in KU history on Kansas’ freshman steals list, tying with Devon Dotson (2019) with 49 thefts. .... KU is 7-7 against ranked teams entering the tourney.

About No. 16 seed Howard (22-12, 11-3 MEAC):

Howard is located in Washington, D.C., with an enrollment of 10,000. ... Howard reached the NCAA Tournament by defeating South Carolina State, Maryland Eastern Shore and Norfolk State in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament last weekend in Norfolk, Virginia. Howard also won the regular-season league title at 11-3 compared to N.C. Central’s 10-4 mark. … Howard has won five games in a row. … Howard played blue-blood Kentucky during the nonconference season, falling 95-63 on Nov. 7 in Lexington, Kentucky. …

Howard, which is competing in the NCAA Tournament for the third time, lost to KU 100-67 in the 1992 tourney. The Bison also lost a first-round game — to Wyoming 78-43 — in the 1981 NCAAs. … Howard is led by all-MEAC first team selection Elijah Hawkins (sophomore, Washington, D.C.), all-MEAC second team honoree Steve Settle (junior, Glenarden, Md.), all-MEAC third team pick Jelani Williams (senior, Washington, D.C.) and MEAC rookie of the year Shy Odom (freshman, Roxbury, Mass.). … MEAC Coach of the Year Kenneth Blakeney is in his fourth season at Howard (43-58 record). He is finalist for the CollegeInsider.com Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year and Hugh Durham Coach of the Year Award. Raised in Washington, D.C., Blakeney played for Hall of Fame coach Morgan Wooten, the winningest high school coach in history, at DeMatha High. Blakeney played for two NCAA title teams at Duke. …

Kobe Dickson, a 6-9, 250 senior forward, is from Holcomb, Kansas. He averages 4.9 points and 2.1 rebounds a game. … Hawkins leads the team with a 13.0 scoring average. He’s made 52 of 110 threes for 47.3%. … Settle, a 6-10 forward averages 11.1 points (41.8% shooting) and 5.9 rebounds a game. He’s made 29 of 101 threes for 28.7%. He has 35 assists, 62 turnovers.