{"id":650311,"date":"2026-03-12T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/650311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:07:19","slug":"kansas-takes-on-tcu-in-big-12-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/650311\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas takes on TCU in Big 12 Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tcu-horned-frogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU Horned Frogs<\/a> (22-10, 12-7 Big 12) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/kansas-jayhawks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas Jayhawks<\/a> (22-9, 12-6 Big 12)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Jayhawks -5.5; over\/under is 142.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: No. 14 Kansas and TCU play in the Big 12 Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Jayhawks&#8217; record in Big 12 games is 12-6, and their record is 10-3 in non-conference play. Kansas is second in the Big 12 in rebounding with 35.9 rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/flory-bidunga-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flory Bidunga<\/a> paces the Jayhawks with 9.0 boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Horned Frogs&#8217; record in Big 12 action is 12-7. TCU has a 3-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Kansas is shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 44.8% TCU allows to opponents. TCU averages 9.2 more points per game (78.5) than Kansas allows (69.3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The teams play each other for the second time this season. Kansas won the last matchup 104-100 on Jan. 7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/darryn-peterson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darryn Peterson<\/a> scored 32 to help lead Kansas to the victory, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/liutauras-lelevicius-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liutauras Lelevicius<\/a> scored 23 points for TCU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tre-white-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre White<\/a> is scoring 14.3 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists for the Jayhawks. Peterson is averaging 16.3 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 39.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/david-punch-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Punch<\/a> is shooting 51.4% and averaging 14.0 points for the Horned Frogs. Lelevicius is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Jayhawks: 6-4, averaging 71.6 points, 35.3 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 5.6 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.0 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Horned Frogs: 9-1, averaging 78.0 points, 33.0 rebounds, 15.6 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.7 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU Horned Frogs (22-10, 12-7 Big 12) vs. Kansas Jayhawks (22-9, 12-6 Big 12) Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,2076,84841,192792,255655,93981,7371,7372,8797,276171,22503,358,190978,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-650311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-college-basketball","tag-darryn-peterson","tag-david-punch","tag-event_preview","tag-flory-bidunga","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-liutauras-lelevicius","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-texas","tag-tre-white","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116216361507062860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650311","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=650311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}