{"id":494197,"date":"2026-01-05T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:00:21","slug":"peterson-leads-no-17-kansas-against-tcu-after-26-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494197\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson leads No. 17 Kansas against TCU after 26-point outing |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TCU Horned Frogs (11-3, 1-0 Big 12) at Kansas Jayhawks (10-4, 0-1 Big 12)<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, Kansas; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: No. 17 Kansas hosts TCU after Darryn Peterson scored 26 points in Kansas&#8217; 81-75 loss to the UCF Knights.<\/p>\n<p>The Jayhawks have gone 5-1 in home games. Kansas is 1-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs play their first true road game after going 11-3 to start the season. TCU ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 10.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Xavier Edmonds averaging 2.1.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas averages 75.8 points, 11.2 more per game than the 64.6 TCU allows. TCU scores 14.9 more points per game (79.5) than Kansas allows to opponents (64.6).<\/p>\n<p>The Jayhawks and Horned Frogs square off Tuesday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Melvin Council Jr. is shooting 36.5% from beyond the arc with 1.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Jayhawks, while averaging 13.4 points and 4.9 assists. Tre White is averaging 15.5 points and 8.5 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>David Punch is shooting 53.8% and averaging 14.0 points for the Horned Frogs. Jayden Pierre is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Jayhawks: 7-3, averaging 74.0 points, 36.4 rebounds, 15.2 assists, 4.7 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Horned Frogs: 9-1, averaging 79.4 points, 34.0 rebounds, 17.4 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.1 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU Horned Frogs (11-3, 1-0 Big 12) at Kansas Jayhawks (10-4, 0-1 Big 12) Lawrence, Kansas; Tuesday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-494197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115842857417151718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}