Texas Tech basketball: Scouting the No. 3 Kansas Jayhawks

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Ochai Agbaji #30 of the Kansas Jayhawks (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images) /

KU does not rely too heavily on the 3-point shot

Many of the classic Bill Self teams have spread the floor with a host of 3-point weapons on the court at the same time. That’s not what this year’s version does though.

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KU is just No. 229 out of 350 teams in the nation in 3-pointers made. They have hit 138 (the same number as the Red Raiders) for an average of 6.9 per game.

Sophomore guard Ochai Agbaji leads the Jayhawks with 35 made shots from deep. He’s a 36.5% shooter for the year.

Not far behind is senior Isaiah Moss, who has made 33. He’s hitting at a 37.9% rate thus far.

The Jayhawks are efficient when they do shoot it from downtown though. They rank second in the Big 12 and 91st nationally by hitting 35.2% as a team. That’s not deadly but it is something that Tech will have to guard against, especially on the road.

What has to concern any team when playing KU is the number of wide-open looks the Jayhawks can generate. Dotson is one of the best penetrating point guards in the nation and if he can break down the defense, shooters are often left open when defenders help to try to cut off his path to the rim.

The last time the Red Raiders played in Allen Fieldhouse, KU hit 13-30 shots from deep (43.3%). In that game, all five starters had at least one 3-pointer and four of them had at least two.

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In the first half, the Jayhawks knocked down 10-16 of those attempts on their way to a 46-26 halftime lead. That’s the type of avalanche that has buried so many teams in Lawrence over the years but hopefully, this year’s KU team is less quipped to shoot the ball that way because if they do, no team in the nation will beat them.

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