KU assigned to pair of Big Monday video games for 2026-27 season

Kansas head coach Bill Self raises his fists earlier than the group following the Jayhawks’ 82-78 win over Arizona, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, at Allen Fieldhouse. Photo by Nick Krug

The Kansas males’s basketball workforce discovered the primary couple items of details about its Big 12 Conference schedule on Monday morning with the announcement of a pair of ESPN Big Monday video games for the season forward.

The Jayhawks will journey to Houston to face the Cougars on the Fertitta Center on Feb. 1 after which host Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse on March 1. Both video games will happen at 8 p.m. and be televised on ESPN.

These are the primary and final video games of the Big 12’s five-weekend Big Monday slate. KU is 85-25 in its historical past on Big Monday, however maybe essentially the most notable statistic is that it has nonetheless not misplaced one in every of these video games at Allen Fieldhouse in 23 seasons underneath head coach Bill Self.

Self’s report, which is now as much as 41-0, was actually put to the take a look at through the 2025-26 marketing campaign with some memorable matchups, together with an 82-78 victory over then-unbeaten Arizona on Feb. 9 with out star guard Darryn Peterson, which was additionally the primary time in Self’s tenure {that a} No. 1-ranked workforce had visited Lawrence. KU additionally beat then-No. 5 Houston 69-56 at Allen Fieldhouse on Feb. 23.

The Jayhawks had already picked up a highway Big Monday victory final season as nicely when Peterson hit two late 3-pointers to raise KU over Texas Tech, 64-61, on Feb. 2.

KU didn’t make the journey to the Fertitta Center through the 2025-26 season. It has not been particularly form to the Jayhawks since Houston joined the convention. They misplaced there in blowout vogue, 76-46, within the 2024 regular-season finale, then weren’t fairly in a position to pull off the upset in a 65-59 loss the next season.

Last yr, KU picked up that house win in opposition to the Cougars however misplaced to them 69-47 within the Big 12 match.

This yr’s Houston workforce misplaced a lot of its manufacturing from final season however returns defensive anchor Joseph Tugler and provides transfers equivalent to guards Corey Hadnot II (Purdue Fort Wayne) and Dedan Thomas Jr. (LSU) and ahead Delrecco Gillespie (Kent State), in addition to the freshman duo of guard Ikenna Alozie and heart Arafan Diane.

As for Iowa State, final yr the Jayhawks and Cyclones cut up their two conferences, one at Allen Fieldhouse that kicked off a protracted profitable streak for KU and one at Hilton Coliseum that ended it. The Cyclones deliver again a frontcourt starter in Blake Buchanan and promising younger guards Jamarion Batemon and Killyan Toure.

The remainder of the Big 12 schedule has not but been revealed. KU opens its season on Nov. 2 in opposition to Fordham and performs its last nonconference recreation in opposition to the newly renamed LSU New Orleans on Dec. 29.

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Written By Henry Greenstein

Henry is the sports activities editor on the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves because the KU beat author whereas managing day-to-day sports activities protection. He beforehand labored as a sports activities reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a local of Los Angeles, he has incessantly been advised he doesn’t give off “California vibes,” no matter which means.

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