Non-Conference Preview: Kansas – Yahoo Sports

We are counting down the days to the start of the college basketball season.

If you’re reading this on the day is was published, we have 47 days to the official start of College Basketball, and 36 days until we can see the team in action against K-State (presuming it’s televised).

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The Full Non-Conference Schedule:

October 23rd — at Kansas State (exhibition)

October 29th — at UNLV (exhibition)

December 6th — vs Kansas (in Kansas City)

December 12th — vs Nebraska (in Kansas City)

December 18th — at Indiana

December 20th — vs Illinois (in St. Louis)

After the last few years of a poor lineup of Q4 games in the non-conference schedule, Missouri pulled a 180 and have schedule as well as anyone in the country. On top of playing Illinois and Kansas as previously scheduled, the Tigers are playing neutral court matchups against SLU, Marquette, Nebraska, and a road game at Indiana. There’s no question Dennis Gates stepped it up.

Let’s Meet: the kansas jayhawks

We don’t really need this section, do we?

Missouri’s biggest rivalry is, without any doubt, the “school to the west.” KU has fielded a football team since 1890, and the only team they’ve played more than Missouri is Kansas State. And K-State has the lead by 2 games, despite Mizzou moving to the SEC 14 years ago.

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The basketball situation is the same. K-State has played the jayhawks more times than Missouri, but both started playing in 1907. But thanks to Bill Self’s pout, the series stopped until 2021.

If you need more on them, I’ll link to last years preview, where I linked to a bunch of other pieces where I did my best to trash them.

Head Coach | Bill Self | 24th Season 648-167

Kansas coach Bill Self shows dejection during the second half of Saturday’s game inside Allen Fieldhouse. | USA TODAY Network via Reuters Co

Self is a guy I have a hard time saying nice things about. He’s a cheater, and when he was one of the few guys cheating he was nearly unbeatable. But since everyone else can pay players, the…

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