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The Kansas Jayhawks, 2-1 to start the 2025-26 men’s basketball season after beating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday, will play host Saturday to Princeton of the Ivy League.
Here’s what to know before tipoff.
KU basketball vs. Princeton: Game details
When/where: 1 p.m., Saturday, Allen Fieldhouse
Streaming: ESPN+
Radio: WHB (810) in Kansas City; ESPN Wichita (92.3 FM).
Probable starters
Princeton (2-1)
F (No. 4) — CJ Happy, 6-9, Soph., 9.0 ppg.
F (7) — Malik Abdullahi, 6-7, Soph., 8.0
G (21) — Jack Stanton, 6-2, Soph., 7.3
G (22) — Dalen Davis, 6-0, Jr., 16.3
G (33) — Jackson Hicke, 6-5, Jr., 10.7
Kansas (2-1)
F (40) — Flory Bidunga, 6-10, Soph., 14.3 ppg.
G (3) — Tre White, 6-7, Sr., 10.0
G ( 13) — Elmarko Jackson, 6-3, Soph., 21.5
G (14) — Melvin Council Jr., 6-4, Sr., 6.7
G (7) — Kohl Rosario, 6-6, Fr., 9.7
About Princeton (2-1)
Princeton has won two straight games since a 104-69 loss in the season opener at Akron. Princeton has home wins over Bucknell, 73-63, and John Jay, 100-59. … Princeton has won three of the past four Ivy League championships. … Mitch Henderson has a 253-133 record in 15 seasons at Princeton. Last March he passed Franklin C. “Cappy” Cappon as the school’s second winningest coach of all time. He trails only Naismith Hall of Fame member Pete Carril, who went 514-261 in 30 seasons. Carril took 11 teams to the NCAA Tournament, never advancing past the second round. His Tigers won the NIT to cap the 1974-75 season. …
Henderson led No. 15 seed Princeton to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen in 2022-23. … Princeton has defeated 12 high-major opponents during hi tenure, the most of any Ivy League program in that span. Princeton defeated Rutgers four times (2011-12, 2013-14, 2023-24, 2024-25), No. 8 Arizona (2022-23), No. 23 Missouri (2022-23), South Carolina (2021-22), Oregon State (2021-22), No. 17 Arizona State (2018-19), USC (2017-18), Penn State (2013-14) and Florida State (2011-12). …
Point guard Dalen Davis, a 6-foot junior from Chicago, has averaged 16.3 points and 3.3 assists through the first three games. Last season he averaged 9.2 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists per contest. … Jackson Hicke, a 6-5 junior from Radnor, Pennsylvania, last summer helped USA Basketball’s 3-on-3 team claim a silver medal at the World University Games. … Princeton went 19-11 last season (8-6 in league), losing to Yale in the semifinals of the Ivy League tournament. … Newcomers to the roster are: Jacob Hammond, Landon Clark, Jake Sussberg, Sebastian Whitfield, Cash McSweeney and Ryan Mandes. … Princeton’s 33 Ivy League titles are the fifth-most regular-season championships of any program in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. KU ranks first with 64 league titles. …
About Kansas (2-1)
Kansas leads the all-time series 2-0. The Jayhawks defeated Princeton, 82-67, on Dec. 22, 1999 at Allen Fieldhouse and, 78-62, on Dec. 12, 2001 in Princeton, New Jersey. … Kansas is 2-1 or better for the 20th consecutive season and the 22nd time in coach Bill Self’s 23 seasons at KU. … Kansas has won 22 straight nonconference home games at Allen Fieldhouse. Self’s teams are 161-6 against nonconference foes at home. … KU after beating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Monday improved to 133-24 following a loss in the Self era. … KU is 2-0 in Allen Fieldhouse this season, 871-121 all-time in the venue, including 334-21 under Self. …
KU had 12 blocks Monday vs. Texas A&M- Corpus Christi, marking a season high and matching last season’s high (Jan. 5, 2025 vs. UCF). … Kansas held Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to 46 points. It marked the first time KU has held an opponent to under 50 since a game at Cincinnati on Jan. 11, 2025. The Bearcats scored 40. … Texas A&M-Corpus Christi was 0 for 5 on 3-pointers in the second half. The last time a KU opponent did not make a 3 in a half was Kentucky on Jan. 28, 2023 (0 for 6 in the first half) …
Kansas freshman Kohl Rosario on Monday became the first KU freshman to score 16 points and grab five rebounds since Johnny Furphy went for 16 points and eight boards versus Samford in the first round of 2024 NCAA Tournament. … Senior Tre White on Monday tied a career high with four assists. He’s had four assists four times, his most recent came playing for Illinois against Oregon on Jan. 1, 2025. … Sophomore Flory Bidunga finished with four blocks, while freshman Bryson Tiller had three blocks vs. Corpus Christi. The last time two Kansas players finished with three or more blocks apiece was Feb. 3, 2025 against Iowa State when Bidunga and Hunter Dickinson each had four. … Senior Nginyu “Gee” Ngala made two 3-point field goals, marking the 54th time of his career he has made two or more 3-pointers.
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Gary Bedore
The Kansas City Star
Gary Bedore covers KU basketball for The Kansas City Star. He has written about the Jayhawks since 1978 — during the Ted Owens, Larry Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self eras. He has won the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year award and KPA writing awards.
