LAWRENCE, Kan. – No. 5/5 Kansas (23-4, 12-2) hits the road to take on No. 10/11 Baylor (23-5, 11-4) on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. (Central) on ESPN. ESPN College GameDay will originate from Waco, Texas, on Feb. 26.

Holding a two-game lead in the loss column in the 2022 Big 12 race, Kansas won its fourth-straight contest with a 102-83 victory against Kansas State, Feb. 22, in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. Baylor has won two straight and four of its last five games after its 66-64 overtime win at Oklahoma State on Feb. 21.

Saturday’s contest will be the Mental Health Awareness Game for both Kansas and Baylor. The Jayhawks will wear ‘Beak The Stigma’ shooting shirts, which represent the student-athletes attempt to accept, support, and encourage each other on and off the court.

Kansas has won 11 league games for a mind-boggling 28th-straight season, a streak that started in 1994-95 in the Big Eight Conference era and is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I.

Kansas is No. 5 in the NET rankings and No. 10 in strength of schedule released by the NCAA through games played Feb. 23. Kansas is 10-4 against Quadrant 1 teams and its 10 Q1 wins tied with Baylor for the most in NCAA Division I.

Kansas leads the Big 12 in scoring offense (80.0 ppg), which is 15th nationally, in field goal percentage (49.8%, fourth nationally), and three-point field goal percentage (36.6%, 51st nationally).

A national player of the year candidate, senior Ochai Agbaji leads the Big 12 in scoring at 20.2 points per game, which is 17th nationally, and in three-point field goal percentage at 44.5%, fifth nationally. He has scored 20 or more points in 15 games this season and has produced 23 points in each of his last two outings. Agbaji has been named Big 12 Player of the Week four times this season.

Kansas has two players ranked in the top four in rebounding in the Big 12 with redshirt-sophomore Jalen Wilson third at 7.2 RPG and senior David McCormack fourth at 7.0 RPG.

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Kansas will play its second of four games in eight days, when it travels to TCU on Tuesday, March 1. The game from Schollmaier Arena will start at 7 p.m. (Central) and be televised on Big 12 NOW on ESPN+. Two days later, Kansas will host TCU on March 5 at 7 p.m. and will then host Texas on March 5 at 3 p.m.

I’d rather see us scheduling Indiana, Minnesota or Nebraska on the football schedule. We need to be looking into our future as our football fortunes improve. Hopefully the opportunity to join the B10 comes our way and these match-ups would help us move that direction.

The idea of playing Missouri makes no sense to me. We have played them for maybe a hundred years. We have nearly a 50:50 record of winning against a rude, drunken bunch of hillbillies who have always been a Football pretender power school that now is a 2nd tier SEC fly-over. They only want to play us because they hate us and want to sell tickets. Their program is fading. Playing them is a giant step backwards for us.

Beating them is meaningless to me because they mean nothing to me. Exposing ourselves to their level is poor judgement.

No wonder EB isn’t a HC by now. BRING BACK NAGY.

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I always enjoys seeing things like this from college baseball. Shows their personality

Biden already on record that he would nominate a black woman.

Came from Tulsa. Believe staff has been staying in contact with him.

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Hearing some interest with KU coaches.

Baylor preview: https://kansas.rivals.com/news/ochai-agbaji-jalen-coleman-lands-preview-baylor-road-trip

Merle Code says in his book, Bill knew about Zions recruitment. The rest is behind the Stars paywall and I'm not giving this jerks a dime...

I was taking the shuttle bus back to the shuttle parking lot and a KSU fan was standing next to me and a group of us started talking. He was a little distraught and said, “just imagine having to have your football team play KSU twice a year, how would that feel?” Rather than launch into a discussion of how the KU football team is improving, I countered with, “Well at least, now maybe Bruce will be gone and you can get a better coach.”. He said Bruce got a contract extension through 2025, and he does think KSU administration has the money or desire to fire him, at least this year, that they are stuck with him for at least another year or 3. I would be surprised if they keep Bruce, but finances speak louder than wins. He wasn’t too bad for a KSU fan, though he was twice my size, but pretty humble after KSU’s performance. I tried to change the subject and said “At least you guys got a good quarterback back transfer in the portal”. He said,”The guy from Nebraska? He may be better than anything we had, but if he couldn’t stay on the field at Nebraska, what makes you think he will do any better at KSU“ I wanted to say, yeah, you guys suck, but someone else started listing the KSU quarterbacks and then the conversation went back to how bad a coach Bruce is. It is sad to be a KSU fan this year, they can not fall back on WSU basketball like they normally do when their team blows.

Talking to Curtis Shaw to complain about technicals is like talking to a drug cartel about too much drug availability.

Shaw called techs for breathing. He led college ball in techs called year after year.

Anyone know if his parents are still in the Ukraine?

The most victories over any opponent in D1 history.

Rock Chalk,

Is going to the transfer portal. His brother is Jabril and if I’m not mistaken are they not from down around the KC area. Would the Hawks go after him. Would they pursue another LB?

Just asking the question here, not trying to imply that there is a problem. Looks like this would be a big concern going forward especially for next year. After the 5 Super Seniors leave, have 2 Juniors and 2 RS Freshmen... The incoming class did not have any Defensive Linemen... Need to build up both sides of the line...

Q: Yeah. What is his (David McCormack) status? He looked a little different.

A: From what he told me that he injured it, didn't injure it, but he aggravated it or whatever at the very beginning of the game. And I wasn't very happy with him to start, he wasn't moving well at all. And then the more you watched him, he ran very awkwardly. He doesn't always have the smoothest run, but certainly, it was more awkward the other night. So we don't know, we think he's fine, but he's got a foot that we've known all long, going through the season. We've got to limit his reps and all that stuff. And it's late February, so he's exactly what we thought he would be right now. Hopefully, if we can get through this, this next four games, that puts us in a position ... even though the Big 12 tournament, you can't rest him. But if we have to rest him Big 12 tournament, we'll rest him. But we just want him as feeling as good as he possibly can going into the NCAA tournament, and that's still very realistic. But he's sore right now. You guys may not know this, he fell on his knee a couple of weeks ago and that thing's giving him problems too as far as swelling and stiffness, and everything. But a lot of times Dave looks like an older man when he starts. The other night he looked like an old man as far as his movements. And he didn't tell me about it, but I asked him and he said, "Yeah, I didn't have it."

Q: Any change Remy, Bobby?

A: No, no. Bobby for sure, no. And Remy, I haven't spoken with him since the K-State since Tuesday night, but I do know that he's in getting treatment and all that stuff every day. And I would anticipate him practicing again today, but I just don't know what level, or if he'll be able to go full go, but I anticipate him being out there. So I don't have an answer for you.

Q: I know you mentioned on Hawk Talk the other night, like it takes time for him to kind of get back into swing of things, for Remy. Is there kind of like a drop dead date where we need him back by now to have him in the rotation at some point?

A: I would say no, because if you make a statement like that ... if Juan's got two fouls the last three games in the first half, if I'm not mistaken. So even though he may not be what he could be, or if he was healthy, he still may be the best ball handler that the other team's pressing in a situation like that. So there's not a drop dead date on him helping our team. But I think it's getting close to be a date that I'll be more comfortable if I'm able to see him play before we get into the postseason. Because if we don't do that, you know, the thing about is you can watch a kid play. The kid had practice, like Zach Clemence, he's a great example. Zach Clemence, for instance, practices twice in six weeks. Well, we have to play him. We put him in, he makes a shot. Well, you don't keep playing him in crunch time even though I did in that one incident. You don't keep playing him just because he made that one shot. You'd like to see that he's consistently doing well in all areas, not just because he made one shot. That would be how I'd feel about Remy. You put him out there and he's doing great. God, he got an assist. He did this. He did that. You're going to set Juan on the bench when he's done all this all year long and you know? Just to play what you hope to be a continuation of what just happened? That's where I think the coaching part comes in from trust standpoint. So he needs to get out there, so we can see him doing good things. So we believe that he should be doing those good things at crunch time, too.

Q: Does home or away have anything to do with that? I know you said he'll be out there when he's ready, but ...

A: No. I would personally say no. To me, we've got two home games left. We had three, that is what I put on the board, only three. You can get pretty spoiled, regardless of what anybody says. I mean, I spoke to a group on Wednesday morning that had about 40 young adults in it from Iowa on a business ... kind of like a retreat. I spoke to them briefly for a while. And I said, "You know what? The crowd was great, wasn't it?" They go, "Oh my gosh." I said, "But you still haven't seen it when it was turned up." And they're going like, "What?" And I said, "No, I mean when it's really turned up, you haven't seen it. And it can be better than that. You know, that was their mindset. So the players are the same way. The players are so spoiled that they know, "Guys, we only have three more. We only have two more." You would think playing at home would be incentive to get somebody out there. So I don't know if there's ... With Remy's situation, I think he's grounded enough to say, "I'm just going to do it when I'm ready."

Please pray for what is happening in this part of the world. Pray that sincerity and integrity guide discussions to prevent war. Many of us grew up during the cold War, having drills of hiding under our desks as though that would do any good.

We grew up with talk that it wasn't a matter of if but of when.

We prayed for peace yet we hardly believed it when it came. It was a marvelous surreal event that the Soviet Union would peaceably lay down their arms. The Warsaw Pact collapsed. The Berlin wall would come down. The Iron curtain would fall. No war.

So how do we think this happened? Do we think that Russians suddenly embraced democracy? No. Russia suddenly embraced capitalism and ownership of private property. I don't know for a fact but reason argues that Army commanders, generals, Naval Admirals and particularly those who controlled nuclear weapons were offered lands, companies, cash, gold or whatever it took to transition to a free economy and fold the Soviet Union.

Russia has no history of a free press. No history of democracy.

All this to say we must be patient. We have not appreciated the circumstances of Russia. In fact we have been completely ignorant. The last Romanov Tsar was a cousin to King George. Compare those mustaches. Russia has been a Greek tragedy. She has sought love and respect from the West but now she in on the verge of suicide because of a rogue. Worse, Russia's people love Americans and some of the best Americans i know are Russian American. Including my wife who works for the USPS.

Russia is not our enemy. I wish I could convince you all to contact our leaders to get them to encourage peace.

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex and I am here to tell you these mother ****ers will do anything to sell and play war games with their toys.

My wife is from Russia. I was a Russian translator during the cold War. Monterey. Can we please not totally **** thus up? God. We could sure use Bob Dole.

Self said he hasn't talked to Remy since the KSU game on Tuesday night but expects him to be at practice today. No idea how involved he'll be at this time. I'll have more from Self's press conference later today. Uploading the video now.

Reaggravated his foot against Kansas State on Tuesday night. He is sore right now and Self said that rest could take place during the Big 12 Tournament. That would allow McCormack to head into the NCAA Tournament as fresh as possible.

As I mentioned earlier, Self hasn't talked to Remy Martin since the KSU game, but Martin is expected to be at practice today. I've got no idea what is going to happen or when, but if Martin takes the court against Baylor on Saturday, I wouldn't be shocked.