Kansas to Face Houston in Big 12 Semifinals Friday
KU has received 15 postseason league tourney titles, together with 11 in the Big 12 period. KU (11), Iowa State (6), Oklahoma State (2), and Houston (1) are energetic league members with Big 12 event titles. Houston is defending tourney champ.
Since the Big 12’s inception in 1996-97, Kansas is 51-15 in the league event. KU is 23-4 in the quarterfinals, 15-6 in semifinals and 11-4 in finals. NOTE: KU’s 2018 title and three wins have been later vacated.
Kansas is coming off a 78-73 win towards TCU on March 12 in the Big 12 (*12*) quarterfinals. Houston superior to the semifinals with a 73-66 win towards BYU in its quarterfinal contest on March 12.
Through video games of March 12, Kansas’ energy of schedule is second in NCAA D1 solely trailing Alabama. In the Bill Self period, Kansas has ranked in the highest 5 of energy of schedule 10 instances and No. 1 six instances (2005, 2025, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2023).
Kansas is No. 18 in the NET, which is fourth in the Big 12. KU’s 9 Quad 1 wins are tied for second most in the league with Houston and are tied for fourth most nationally. Arizona is first in the league with 14.
Kansas leads the Big 12 in discipline objective share protection at 38.7%, which is fifth nationally, three-point discipline objective share protection at 30.2%, which is nineteenth nationally, and blocked photographs at 5.8, which is sixth nationally.
Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Flory Bidunga leads the Big 12 and is third nationally, with 87 blocked photographs, and his 2.72 blocked photographs per recreation additionally rank first in the Big 12 and third nationally. Bidunga additionally leads the Big 12 in discipline objective share at 65.1%, which is seventh nationally.
At 13.8 ppg, 9.1 rpg, and a pair of.72 bpg, Bidunga is the one participant in NCAA Division I to common greater than 13.5 factors, 8.5 rebounds and a pair of.5 blocked photographs per recreation.
One of 15 on the 2026 Naismith Coach of the Year Watch List, Kansas head coach Bill Self is 632-165 in his twenty third season at KU. Last season, Self turned Kansas’ all-time winningest coach, surpassing Phog Allen, who was 590-129 in 36 seasons on the KU sidelines. Self is in his thirty third season total with an 839-270 file. He is one among solely 4 energetic coaches in NCAA D1 with 800 or profession wins becoming a member of Rick Barnes, John Calipari, and Kelvin Sampson.
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A Kansas win in the Big 12 (*12*) semifinals would advance KU to the championship recreation, Saturday, March 14, at 5 pm CT towards the winner of the Iowa State-Arizona contest. Should it occur, KU would attain its convention event championship recreation for the sixteenth time in Big 12 historical past and the twenty fourth time in convention postseason event historical past. The Jayhawks are 15-8 all-time in convention tour finals, together with 11-4 in the Big 12 period (since 1997).