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KU’s exhibition basketball games in Puerto Rico will be livestreamed, starting Thursday

K ansas’ three exhibition men’s basketball games to be played on the Jayhawks’ current trip to Puerto Rico will be livestreamed, the KU athletic department announced Wednesday night.

Thursday’s opening game against the Puerto Rico Select Team (11 a.m. Central Time at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum) can be viewed on computer, mobile phone or smart TV at KUathletics.com or the KU Athletics Facebook page. The stream will be linked with the Jayhawk Radio Network’s broadcast featuring Brian Hanni and Greg Gurley.

KU’s games against the Bahamian National Team (4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Monday) will be shown via livestream at the same sites.

Ticket information is available for fans in Puerto Rico wishing to attend the games.

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Here’s a recap of KU basketball’s three exhibition games in Puerto Rico & what’s next

It remains to be seen if Kansas’ weeklong early-August trip to Puerto Rico will help the Jayhawks win games during the early portion of the 2023-24 regular-season.

There’s no denying that the trip — one that included a 35-point opening victory over Puerto Rico’s Select Team and a 1-1 record against the Bahamian National Team — should give the 2023-24 Jayhawks a head start in facing real competition.

Being 2,244 miles away from home in a tropical environment with a lot of free time on the travel itinerary after practices and games in a six-day span just might have provided a boost to team morale, as well.

“I definitely think it will (help team bonding),” senior guard Nick Timberlake said after the Jayhawks’ 87-81 loss to the Bahamian National Team on Monday at Ruben Rodiguez Coliseum. The Jayhawks defeated Team Bahamas 92-87 Saturday and Puerto Rico Select 106-71 Thursday in the other two games on the trip.

“I mean whether we were at the games or at the beach or in the pool, something like that … we all had a great time this week,” Timberlake added.

It was quite a difference from what the Jayhawks experienced the past two months. During the summer-school session, the Jayhawks practiced with, and against, team members day in and out.

The three exhibition games in Puerto Rico allowed the Jayhawks to guard and be guarded by somebody other than teammates.

“It felt good to play somebody besides each other,” KU junior forward KJ Adams said after scoring 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting in KU’s rout of Puerto Rico Select.

He followed that with 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting in the five-point Game Two victory over the Bahamian National Team. With his knee bothering him he had just three points in the final game vs. Team Bahamas.

“We came out here to compete. It was great to finally get to play somebody else,” senior forward Parker Braun said. Instead of guarding the likes of Hunter Dickinson (team-leading 19.0 scoring average in Puerto Rico) every day at practice, the 6-11 Braun averaged 1.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in the games in Puerto Rico.

KU coach Bill Self, who has said the 10 practices leading up to the trip to Puerto Rico may have been more important than the games, considers the trip a resounding success.

The team hotel, the Fairmont el San Juan, is one of the nicest resorts the Jayhawks have stayed in during his 21 years at KU. The practice facility at Catholic school Academia del Perpetuo Socorro where the Jayhawks worked out on off days was spacious and air conditioned.

And the site for the three exhibition games, Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum, provided a big-time atmosphere with 12,000 seats. The only problem was occasional slippage on logos placed on the court. In fact KU sophomore Arterio Morris bumped his knee after slipping on a logo and suffered a bone bruise that prevented his playing in Game Three.

“It’s a very nice building, a lot better building than we are used to playing in when we take foreign trips,” Self said. “Basketball is by far the biggest sport here from what everybody tells me, mainly the NBA still.

“Going to Puerto Rico to me is a huge advantage for us because it’s Spanish speaking but also English speaking and you don’t have to go through customs. I think this is a great place and it was a great trip,” Self added.

Point guard Dajuan Harris summed up the trip by saying: “We had fun. Team bonding, our chemistry got better. The games, I think we got better too. Playing the pros (Buddy Hield, Eric Gordon of the Bahamas Team) I think helped us get better. The pros made us better. It’ll make us better through the season.

“I definitely had fun but I’m ready to go home.”

Here’s a recap of the three games played in Puerto Rico:

Game 1: KU basketball 106, Puerto Rico 71

The Jayhawks ran away with this one, rolling to a 14-2 lead and never looking back. KU unleashed a fast-paced offense led by speedy guards Harris, Morris, Kevin McCullar and Elmarko Jackson.

Morris, one of the main standouts, cashed three 3s in five attempts and scored 20 points with five rebounds, five assists and two steals. Adams was 7-of-10 shooting and scored 19 points with four rebounds. Jackson went 3 of 4 from 3 and finished with 13 points and two assists.

Timberlake and Zach Clemence, who is still set to redshirt , had similar games. They each canned two threes and scored eight points.

Newcomer big man Dickinson was solid with 13 points on 6-of-13 shooting .

KU brought energy on offense and defense. The Jayhawks came up with 15 steals and forced 24 turnovers while holding Puerto Rico to 35.4% shooting (7 of 29 from 3).

“I actually thought we played pretty well, obviously early,” Self said. “We got out and they couldn’t get a shot off. We haven’t really worked on a lot of things defensively, but we’ve done some things offensively and I thought we shared the ball for the most part.”

Utter domination showed on the stat sheet. KU outscored Puerto Rico 48-24 in points in the paint, 35-14 on fast-break points and 55-27 in bench points.

“I don’t know that we have played faster than this, but it’s also summertime,” Self said. “And in real games people don’t wait to get easy baskets. But I did think we looked pretty quick at times.”

Added Self: “All in all it was a good first day.”

Game 2: Kansas 92, Bahamas National Team 87

As many as four NBA players appeared on the roster of Team Bahamas . Just one, Hield, wound up playing as Deandre Ayton, Gordon and Kai Jones missed the contest.

Hield, who once scored 46 points in a triple overtime loss to KU as an Oklahoma Sooner, played just one half. He scored 18 points on 5-of-11 shooting. KU’s McCullar (13.6 ppg in the three games) started defensively on Hield, who also was guarded at times by Harris and Morris.

KU won the game despite hitting just 4 of 17 threes. The Bahamas went 7 of 32 from beyond the arc. It was a physical game. KU hit 14 of 27 free throws; the Bahamas Team hit 26 of 36.

Overall KU hit 37 of 64 shots for a sizzling 57.8%. That means the Jayhawks were 33 of 47 from two-point range . That’s a 70.2% mark.

Senior transfer Dickinson scored 28 points on 11-of-13 shooting. He was 1 of 2 from 3 and also had four assists, six rebounds and three steals in 28 minutes.

Adams had 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting. He hit his only 3-point try. Adams had six assists, three rebounds.

McCullar had 13 points, five assists and four rebounds in 21 minutes. He fouled out in the fourth quarter when KU was up by nine points. Team Bahamas, which trailed 42-36 at halftime, cut the gap to two but never could surge past the Jayhawks.

McCullar enjoyed guarding Hield .

“To be able to match up with guys like that ... that’s who I want to be guarding every night when I get to the league. So I appreciate him pushing me and we were talking trash and having fun,” McCullar said.

“He told me after the game (to) keep staying aggressive this year and just have fun. It was good advice from him and I appreciate that.”

The trash talking was good-natured between Indiana Pacers guard Hield and McCullar. In fact, Hield spoke to the 6-7 McCullar after the game. What’d he say?

“That I had the talent, I just have to be aggressive,” McCullar said.

Game 3: Bahamas National Team 87, KU 81

NBA players Hield and Gordon scored 19 and 12 points respectively on a combined 12-of-24 shooting. The Bahamas Team had KU well scouted and took away all dunk opportunities off lobs for the Jayhawks.

Harris led the way with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting. He was 3 of 7 from 3. McCullar went for 19 points followed by Dickinson (16) and Timberlake (13).

“There was nothing disheartening about this. This doesn’t mean anything and it’s probably not bad for us to get humbled a bit,” Self, whose Jayhawks are expected to be ranked No. 1 or 2 in 2023-24 preseason polls, said.

Self, who follows the NBA closely, was again impressed with Hield, a 6-4, 30-year-old former Oklahoma Sooner who hit four 3s in the 10-minute third quarter.

Hield and Gordon did not play the fourth quarter. With those two in the game, the score was Team Bahamas 69, KU 65.

“Pat ‘em on the butt. Those were good plays,” Self said “I thought we defended Buddy and Eric pretty well to be honest. Buddy made some unbelievable shots, unbelievable. He could be an all-star eventually.”

A third NBA player, Ayton, elected to work out an hour before the game but passed on playing in the contest for Team Bahamas.

KU coach Self considered Harris a bright spot.

“Juan looked to score; that was a positive,” Self said. “I thought we did some good things. We missed not having Arterio out there. Hopefully we can get Johnny (Furphy, new addition to the team who will arrive in Lawrence for the start of the school year) out there so we have more depth.

“We didn’t shoot the ball (well). I thought we took some marginal shots. We turned it over (16 times) to lead to layups. We were just way too careless with the ball. That was good competition.”

The Jayhawks will have to wait four years for their next summer excursion. The NCAA allows such trips once every four years. The KU players, who have been in Lawrence since early June for summer school, now will head to their hometowns and be back in Lawrence for the start of class on Aug. 21.

Scoring leaders on the trip: Hunter Dickinson 19.0 ppg, Kevin McCullar 13.6, Arterio Morris 13.5 (2 games), KJ Adams 13.0, Elmarko Jackson 10.6, Dajuan Harris 9.0 and Nick Timberlake 8.6.

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Fans can stream KU men’s basketball games in Puerto Rico

by: Lainey Gerber

Posted: Aug 2, 2023 / 07:52 PM CDT

Updated: Aug 2, 2023 / 07:52 PM CDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ( KSNT ) – KU fans can stream the men’s basketball team’s three exhibition games in Puerto Rico, the university announced Wednesday.

The games will be streamed at KUAthletics.com and can be seen on the KU Athletics Facebook page. The stream will be linked with the Jayhawk Radio Network broadcast with Brian Hanni and Greg Gurley calling the action. 

The games are on Aug. 3, 5 and 7. The August 3 exhibition will be against a Puerto Rico Select Team at 11 a.m. CST, while the final two games will be against the Bahamian National Team. The Aug. 5 game will tipoff at 4 p.m. CST, and the Aug. 7 contest at 11 a.m. CST.

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KU men’s basketball slated for three exhibition games in Puerto Rico in early August

By henry greenstein     may 31, 2023.

Amid an offseason that has featured some of the most significant roster turnover in recent Kansas men’s basketball history, the new-look Jayhawks will get a chance to bond before the going gets tough.

KU will embark on its first summer tour since a 2017 trip to Rome when it travels to Puerto Rico from Aug. 1-8.

The Jayhawks, who will be based out of the capital, San Juan, are currently scheduled for one evening exhibition game each on Aug. 3, 5 and 7, as Anthony Walton, proprietor of Houston-based event organizer Walton Sports & Entertainment, confirmed to the Journal-World Wednesday night. (Travel agent Mona Behringer, on behalf of fellow organizer First in Service Travel, had provided the same dates Wednesday morning but noted they were “still not official.”)

KU’s opponents for these exhibitions remain undecided, as Walton said that Puerto Rico’s nearly 100-year-old league, one of the oldest extant basketball leagues in the world, features a slew of teams that want to take on the Jayhawks.

“So we’re just picking and choosing which ones would be the best competition for Kansas,” he said.

When KU visited Rome six years ago, it got the chance to rotate through a variety of personnel as it beat four Italian sides by an average of more than 34 points.

News of the trip emerged from an email to Williams Education Fund donors from the development team at Kansas Athletics. The Journal-World obtained an online copy of the email, which entices fans with “seven nights at the luxurious Fairmont El San Juan Hotel located right off of the beautiful coast of Puerto Rico.”

Kansas Athletics declined to comment on the trip. The email message, for its part, links to further details on packages, starting at $1,955 for the weeklong extravaganza, available at kusju.com. Attendees must book by June 30.

Walton said KU fans would appreciate the pleasant environment of San Juan, which he drily characterized as “just like Lawrence, except it would have a really nice beach.”

He added that supporters would get a chance to see the Jayhawks thrice in rapid succession, an opportunity that isn’t often available in Lawrence.

“We all know how tough a ticket it is to get to Allen Fieldhouse,” he said.

For the team itself, a “foreign tour” (as such excursions are typically called, though Puerto Rico is a domestic destination; NCAA Bylaw 17.31.1.1 says a trip to an American commonwealth “may be considered a foreign tour”) provides not just three games with atypical opponents against a scenic backdrop, but also a maximum of 10 days of preseason practice prior to departure.

This year’s Jayhawks, with their four incoming transfers and four freshmen, will thus get a chance to jell in late July.

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🏀 Jayhawks Roll in Puerto Rico Debut

BAYAMON, Puerto Rico – Behind 20 points from sophomore guard Arterio Morris and 19 points from junior KJ Adams Jr., Kansas men’s basketball rolled to a 106-71 win against a Puerto Rico Select team Thursday in an exhibition game at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum.

A crowd of 3,174 saw Kansas score the first seven points of the contest and never look back, dominating the first quarter 25-7 in the FIBA rules game. Senior center Hunter Dickinson and freshman Elmarko Jackson each scored 13 points with Jackson and Morris leading KU making three 3-point field goals in the victory. Morris also had five assists and two steals for Kansas.

KU redshirt junior Dajuan Harris Jr., led all players with nine assists and four steals to go along with nine points. Kevin McCullar Jr. paced KU with seven rebounds and also scored nine points. Six of guard Nicolas Timberlake’s eight points were from beyond the arc and the graduate transfer also had three steals, while junior Zach Clemence made two threes and scored eight points.

KU dominated the game forcing 24 turnovers and converting those into 34 points. KU outscored Puerto Rico 48-24 in points in the paint, 35-14 on fast break points and 55-27 in bench points.

“I actually thought we played pretty well, obviously early,” Kansas head coach Bill Self said. “We got out and they couldn’t get a shot off. We haven’t really worked on a lot of things defensively, but we’ve done some things offensively and I thought we shared the ball for the most part.”

Adams and Morris scored 12 of Kansas’ first 14 points of the contest with each hitting a three pointer, putting Kansas up 14-2 six minutes into the contest. Kansas took its largest lead of the half, 27-7, in the second quarter on an Adams alley-oop from Harris to open the period.

“I’m really glad because I’m going to have the same freedom I did last year, just in a different position because everyone’s going be focused on Hunter,” said Adams who started at the center position in 2022-23 and has moved to the power forward spot. “It lets me cut when I need to and just pass whenever I have to.”

Nine of the 10 Kansas players scored in the opening half led by Morris with 13 points and Adams with 12. McCullar added nine points, while Harris led KU with three steals and four assists. KU led 54-34 at intermission.

Kansas continued to wear out its opponent and built a 69-44 lead on a Clemence three-pointer with 4:20 left in the third quarter. Two minutes later Jackson made his second three of the game to put KU up 78-51.

The final quarter saw the Jayhawks continue their fast pace scoring on dunks, alley-oops and lay-ins as KU led 102-68 before Self cleared the bench for the final two minutes of the game.

Kansas will practice Friday in preparation for two more exhibition games against the Bahamian National Team. The first contest will be at 4 p.m. (Central) on Saturday, August 5, and the final game of the trip will be on Monday, August 7, at 11 a.m. (Central). Both games will be played at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum.

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Watch clips from the Kansas basketball exhibition win in Puerto Rico

By joshua schulman | aug 3, 2023.

Kansas basketball defeated the Puerto Rico Select Team 106-71 in its first exhibition game of the offseason. Watch clips from the win and find out the box score.

The Kansas Jayhawks routed their opponent during the team’s first time in action against a different team. On day three of the Puerto Rico trip , head coach Bill Self’s squad took down the Puerto Rico Select Team in blowout fashion.

You would have thought this team had been playing together for an entire year when watching the game. They looked like a cohesive unit, and every player knew what their role was. It should make Kansas basketball fans excited for the regular season.

Although they didn’t play the most formidable opposing squad, KU should be given props for how well they played against more experienced players — some who are almost ten years older than them.

Arterio Morris and KJ Adams led the way for the Jayhawks, with the two overshadowing the Kansas debut of Hunter Dickinson . Morris scored a team-high 20 points and did it extremely efficiently. Meanwhile, Adams finished just behind the Texas transfer with 19. The incoming junior even sunk his first-ever 3-pointer in a crimson and blue uniform (0-4 for his career).

3-point shooting was supposedly one of the team’s most underlying concerns, but KU quickly put that to rest. They hit 13-of-31 shots from beyond the arc, good for a 41.9% clip, and even drained five in a row in the third quarter.

This is the full box score:

• Hunter Dickinson: 13 pts, 6 rebs, 3 asts (6-13 shooting)
• Dajuan Harris: 2 pts, 9 asts, 4 stls (0-4 shooting)
• Kevin McCullar: 9 pts, 7 rebs, 1 blk (4-9 shooting, 1-4 3-point)
• KJ Adams: 19 pts, 4 rebs, 2 asts (7-10 shooting)
• Nick Timberlake: 8 pts, 4 rebs, 3 stls (3-6 shooting, 2-4 3-point)
• Arterio Morris: 20 pts, 5 rebs, 5 asts (8-12 shooting, 3-5 3-point)
• Elmarko Jackson: 13 pts, 2 asts, 1 reb (4-6 shooting, 3-4 3-point)
• Parker Braun: 3 pts, 5 rebs, 2 asts (1-4 shooting)
• Jamari McDowell: 7 pts, 3 asts, 1 stl (2-5 shooting)
• Zach Clemence: 8 pts, 3 rebs (3-7 shooting, 2-5 3-point)

Below are clips from the KU men’s basketball Twitter page . Also linked is a full game highlight reel which can be found by clicking here .

https://twitter.com/KUHoops/status/1687166094514012179

Elmarko Jackson. you’re going to want to remember his name ‼️ pic.twitter.com/79OaqRAII6 — Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) August 3, 2023

https://twitter.com/KUHoops/status/1687154726813515792

there you go, @BIGZTEXAS 🙌 pic.twitter.com/zxy2F9bKCs — Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) August 3, 2023

https://twitter.com/KUHoops/status/1687146993360019469

thought y’all might want to see this one again 😮‍💨 that juan to terio connection lookin real nice 👀 pic.twitter.com/17At5GZpxH — Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) August 3, 2023

kev with back to back throw downs 😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/x0zdjkfJOk — Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) August 3, 2023

terio gets his first points as a jayhawk 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4FcefnV2iS — Kansas Men’s Basketball (@KUHoops) August 3, 2023

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