Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Darryn Peterson vs AJ Dybantsa in Lawrence | Studying the Kansas Jayhawks Basketball Big 12 Schedule

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Big 12 basketball schedule shakeup: Kansas Jayhawks face tough road ahead. Will their challenging lineup lead to NCAA tournament success and a high-seed with possibly over 20 quad one games? And what about the oddity of only playing BYU once in the Darryn Peterson vs AJ Dybantsa matchup?Derek Johnson breaks down KU's conference matchups, analyzing key games and potential Quad 1 opportunities. The host explores the impact of playing powerhouses like Duke, UConn, and Houston, while discussing the disappointment of missing a home-and-home series with BYU. Johnson also dives into recent college athletics news, including potential changes to NCAA eligibility rules and legal challenges to NIL compensation.Tune in for expert analysis on how the Jayhawks' schedule could shape their season as well as possible changes to the world of college basketball as we know it!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGEfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

The Big 12 basketball schedule is out. We know everybody KU is going to be playing We know Darren Peterson AJ DeBonsall will happen in Lawrence. We know it's not gonna happen twice We know who they're gonna play twice and we know how loaded of a schedule This is breaking it down on today's episode of Locked on Jayhawks You are locked on Jayhawks your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks part of the locked on podcast network your team every day. What is going on Derek Johnson here this is locked on Jayhawks

you can give me follow on Twitter at D Johnson radio and thanks for making LLJ your first listen every day we are free and available anywhere you get your podcasts including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show thank you to every dayers catching each and every episode of are free and available anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show. Thank you to the every dayers catching each and every episode of the show. And on today's edition of locked on Jay Hawks for breaking down the big 12 schedule and the full schedule now being out because we know that on con schedule, we don't know when they're going to play

the big 12 teams they're playing, but we know who they're going to be playing takeaways from this full KU basketball slate. And then we'll get into this fifth year option thing is there was some news with Sakai Ziegler, how it could relate to KU as they look to continue finish building out their roster. And then some of the latest news across the country, including some college basketball news, and also some possible Title Nine news that could have an impact on KU one other schools across the country and how they

divvy up some of the rev share money. Let's get started with the basketball conference schedule coming out. It is 18 games, shocker, but they're going back to the 18 games. That is something that they announced a little bit ago, but something that I like just in general. So we know already the non-con schedule

and with the conference schedule, we knew the teams they were gonna be playing twice. And if you're in every day area, you already heard us talking about that, they're going to play in Arizona, Iowa State and Kansas State all twice, which on its own is okay, makes sense, Kansas State in state rival, Iowa State also nearby and has been one of the teams that Kansas usually, I

don't know, I wouldn't call them a rival, but it's like it's that next year, I guess maybe I have what you would call it, but like they've typically been good in the big 12 and so have you, and both teams have, you know, very tough home court environments to play on and everything like that. And then Arizona was the other one. And it's like, you get that from a brand perspective,

but it felt like this would have been the year that you dropped the KU Arizona two-time thing. Especially like this is what doesn't make sense. This past season, you only did the Kansas Arizona thing one time. And that was when you had 20 games. Why wouldn't if you're that interested in playing the big brands against each other, why wouldn't they have played twice this past season? Instead, we get them playing twice this

upcoming season. And you avoid KUBYU happening twice. And now instead of seeing Darren Peterson, AJ DeBonse, the number one and number two recruits in the country, players who when they last went up against each other, like, or maybe it was the time before the last time, but like Peterson had like 60 points and DeBonse had like 50. You're telling me you don't want to see that twice a year like Breyormark, what are we doing, man, we got to get that thing

twice a year. So I that that's a baffling, stupid scheduling choice to begin with. But that being said, at least it is cool for KU that they get that game in Allen Field House. I'd be pretty livid if I was a BYU fan to be like, man, we've got this unbelievable roster and this unbelievable crew coming in and we have this great matchup with DeVonza and Peterson. And we've actually beaten Kansas both times since joining the Big 12. And we don't get to play them at home this year. Like, we're not going to do this twice.

And from the Kansas perspective, that's going to be an awesome ticket to get a game to, right? If you're talking about the home games that you're most interested in getting tickets to, like you think about the Duke game and the players era game, like those are on neutral sites. Like the North Carolina game, that's on the road. Missouri game, that's on a neutral site, right?

So the most appealing, I think, home games on the schedule for season ticket holders for I don't know just somebody buying like if you're only going to go to one game during the year you could make the argument of the Yukon game on December 2nd but that's also a Tuesday night and because of the fact of the the future pro potential and in fact the BYU could be a top five top 10 team in the country too it's that you have the Houston game as well but yeah it Houston, BYU and Connecticut is the three most marketable games for KU at home. To me, if I was only going to one game, if I could choose just one game, it would be the BYU game. And so it does suck. It's not twice. But again, at

least you do get see it at home. And that'll be a cool opportunity for KU fans in Allen Fieldhouse to go on out to that game. The other home games they're gonna have, they'll be playing Baylor at home. I mentioned BYU. They'll get Cincinnati at home, Houston at home, TCU, and Utah, and then Arizona, Iowa State, K-State on the road, obviously. Arizona, Iowa State, K-State. And then the away only teams that you'll be getting

is at Arizona State, at UCF, at Colorado, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and West Virginia. That's actually a pretty good draw for KU if you think about it, right? In theory, how I view it is like, I would want all of the, if you're, for the teams you're only playing at home and the teams you're only playing on the road,

I would want the best teams at home and the worst teams on the road to increase your chances of winning on the road. Whereas you have that Allen Field House magic to help guide you through some of those tough games at home. Okay, well, if we look at it, like like Arizona State UCF, Colorado, Oklahoma State and West Virginia like those were a lot of the bottom teams bottom half teams in the big 12 Okay, you traditionally just hasn't done what done well in Morgantown

So maybe we exclude that one, but you know if you're talking Arizona State UCF, Colorado, Oklahoma State of your away only teams, I'd much rather be doing that on the road than at home where yeah, the tech one will be tough too, but like instead at home, you do get BYU and Houston and Baylor, like I'd much rather have that switch of things. So I do think that is a little bit presentable and a positive for KU.

Now, if we use Bart Torvik and their website and obviously rosters are still not complete There's gonna be other teams adding players to the fold Kansas should be adding players to the fold though every waking day we get closer to the start of the season and there's not a Player added I think we all collectively start to get a little bit more worried What's going on there? But in theory some of these rankings could change up based on some more roster moves of international players and a couple kids still left in the portal of what's to come though

I doubt anything substantially like I don't think anybody's going to jump 1015 spots because I don't know that there's a player out there that's going to have that sort of impact. But if we use Bartorvik as a reference and include the non con schedule, now that we know all the conference opponents, now that we know the noncon schedule all put together, it's not like unusual that KU would play a bunch of Quad One games. But I think it's interesting when we put a number to it. So a reminder Quad One games, which they use on the

NCAA tournament, like team sheets and the resume and figuring out where your team should be seated and everything like that. It's at home against teams ranked one through 30. And the net rankings, it's on neutral sites against teams ranked one through 50. And it's one through 75 away. I do think it's interesting. I don't know if like Kansas has always done a good job being smart working with the schedule, and kind of, I don't want to say gaming it. But like when it was the RPI, they did a really good job of boosting up that RPI. And I do

think it is intentional a little bit to be like, okay, let's play some of these games on neutral site in a certain way. Like if you think about it, they could I don't know how many games they're playing in the player players era is three games is it four games, but let's say it's three games. And then you have the Duke game and the Missouri game, five games on neutral site plus whatever you play in the big 12 tournament this year. It's easier to get a quad one game out of a neutral

site game, because it's one through 50, then it is a home game where it's one through 30. So I don't know if that's intentional or not. But I did find that interesting. And then the road games, it's one through 75. If you play them on the road. So if you look at just the bar torva cranks, which are not the net ratings, but it's the best we have right now, because the net ratings aren't out and everything. That would mean they're playing torvics number

one, number six, number 11, number 14, and number 21 teams at home. These are the so they'd have five quad one opportunities at home on neutral sites. They're playing the number three, number 28 teams. And again, that doesn't count the players era tournament because we don't know who they're going to be playing. It doesn't count the big 12 tournament. But let's say I don't know, I guess there could

be a lot of opportunities, how many games that is, but at the very least, you know, you're playing Duke in Missouri on neutral sites. And those are both right now on paper, be quad one game. So now you're up to seven quad one games that you're playing on the schedule. Then if we look on the road, you're playing Torvix number 14, number 15, number 21, number 27, 38, 47, 55, and 57 teams. So that adds eight more games, which brings you up to on your base schedule, 15 quad one

opportunities. Again, though, if we assume the players era tournament gives you because again, I don't know if it's three or four games, all of them might be quad one games. I don't know. But let's just assume two to three quad one games out of the players era tournament. Let's assume the big 12 tournament gives you somewhere between one to four quad one games, depending what seed you are, how many games you play, how many games you win, right, it

could be one game, it could be up to possibly even four. That means you could easily add somewhere between three to seven more quad one opportunities, meaning KU realistically is slated, again, this stuff messes around to play somewhere between 18 to 22 quad one games this season. And most of the times when you look at the quad one records of teams who get one seeds, they're around 101112 quad one wins. I think Auburn like set the record

this year, I forget what they ended up with. But it was in the teens, it was in the mid teens of of what they put together. And again, like not every team that like Missouri who's 28th on tour of it coming in, there could be a chance that they drop further a team that, you know, there could be certain teams that you have in there that are projected quad one games that end up in quad two or something like that. But there could also be teams that

are projected in quad two, like Cincinnati on Torvitz 31, Baylor's 34 that actually end up as Quad one games. If they get in the top 30 of home games, they're like UCF is 77th on Torvix. If they got up two spots higher, that'd be a Quad one game on the road for KU. So tough schedule for Kansas, but one littered with, I think good road opportunities in the big 12,

and a lot of opportunities overall that even if Kansas loses eight or nine or 10 games, because of all those Quad one games that they're going to have, they're going to be a very highly seated team. If that ends up being the case. Let's continue on just Kansas need the fifth year option to pass. And if so not great news coming out of the courts with how one player is handled in college basketball. Thanks for joining us on this episode of the show.

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roster. And there's not a lot of game change. I don't know, there might not be any game changers that are left, right? They're players that could maybe make you gradually better or players that maybe if they surprise and improve a ton, they can make you gradually better. But those are far and few between and, you know, you're kind of even running out of those options. One, I don't want to say a solution, because it's not like a thing right now. But one opportunity that at this point, maybe Kansas would be pumped if

it and in fact, I think Kansas would be pumped. If it ended up passing, just from a standpoint of building this specific roster would be there's been rumors dating back really a year that like what the NCAA consider making a five year clock for players and it still hasn't happened yet. It still is not something that's been passed. There's also been rumors that like if it does pass at this stage of the game, players wouldn't be grandfathered into it, it would like start, you know, when it got implemented.

So then the players, you know, say who graduated last year, who could sell the year left, they wouldn't be able to use it. That again, if they did pass it, and that happened, could somebody sue and win? Not a great sign for that happening with Zechai Ziegler, though he was denied preliminary injunction in pursuit of eligibility in an NCAA lawsuit. The quote from the district court judge Catherine Kritzer says plaintiff has failed to present sufficient evidence that the Four Seasons rule produces substantial

anti-competitive effects in the market for student athlete services and NIL compensation in Division One basketball. What the NCAA should do is policy matter to benefit student athletes is beyond the reach of the Sherman Act and TTP. No idea what that is. And by extension, the court. Now, his side of things ended up saying like, this is not over. They basically said, we're disappointed the court declined to grant a preliminary injunction on the basis that

the NCAA does not directly control NIL compensation, just days after the house settlement confirmed they would do it exactly that this ruling is just the first chapter of what we believe will ultimately be a successful challenge. We intend to press forward and are evaluating the best best path ahead for the guy. So sounds like they're going to challenge it in some way or legality. But that's probably not a great start for the case and where it would go. And yeah, I mean, right now, if this could end up being something that you don't want to get passed through and you could bring on players for the previous, you know, fifth season, so to speak. There would only be a couple players that would be eligible for it

for KU. I think Shaquille Moore would be somebody who would have the opportunity to do that. Zeke Mayo would be somebody with the opportunity, then KJ Adams, but we know KJ is going to be joining the staff and he would be out for the year anyway with injury. So basically, it would just be Zeke Mayo or Shaquille Moore, because Hunter played five years to one played like six. So I don't think I'm missing anybody at that point in time. And if you could add at this point in time, like, like, let's say hypothetically, Zeke Mayo did just have another year and he was still available in the portal, he would be the best commodity available at the portal at this point in time. And for Kansas team

that needs three point shooting, that would be awesome. Now, what are the likelihoods of all these things happening? Like I said, and the proof of that, you know, courtship being denied. It's very, very slim that any of this would happen. But it is at least something to monitor based on what happens. Because, again, as Kansas does have scholarships available, if it were to be something that passed, it wouldn't just be Zeke Mayo, it would be a lot of other

players in college basketball who aren't good enough to get maybe into the NBA that did enter the transfer portal at the last minute, just in case something happened. And there be a lot of these other schools across the country that would already have filled up rosters or would already have filled up NIL budgets. And maybe Kansas would be in a situation where they could, you know, snipe somebody good with the fifth year rule passed and grandfathered in players who just graduated. Again, though, there's a lot of steps for that to happen, and it doesn't seem like those

steps are happening, but we'll monitor it because, yeah, they still got three spots available and I don't know what they're going to do with them. I don't know if they're going to use all three, too. And then maybe there is a little strategy. Like I don't want to they're gonna use all three two and then maybe there is a little strategy like, I don't want to say their strategy to that but like if Kansas is struggling so much to fill the three roster spots, do you just go all in on trying to fill one of the three or two of the three spots and leave one open to just say, hey, it's been a pain in

the butt for us to fill even these final one or two, we'll just leave one open. Worst case scenario, we just don't fill it and it gives us a little more NIL budget that we can use on those top two players or that we can just carry over to the following season. Best case scenario, if this does path pass, we still have an open scholarship now that we can go out and bring somebody home and possibly be a game changer, even though it is very, very unlikely for something like that to happen. All right, let's finish up here on

this episode of Lockdown J-Hawks with some of the latest news across college basketball and college athletics. Thanks for joining us on this episode of LOJ. Again, you can find our show anywhere, you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page, or you can like and subscribe to the show. And thank you that every day is already doing that. Don't forget to check out Lockdown College football and or Lockdown College basketball for your second listen every day. And we've had some previous episodes this week, talking, you know, international stuff for KU. We've had some

episodes that have been, you know, talking all sorts of things this week, including on Kerem Kanan, and his possibility of if he were a Jayhawk and his scouting board and everything. Okay, so here is an interesting article. It was just posted by front office sports earlier this week. It says, group of women athletes files appeal of house of thec double A settlement approval. And basically a group of eight women filed an appeal of the

house v nc double A settlement that got approved on Wednesday arguing that violates the Title IX gender equity statute. So this would be very interesting to see what comes of it. It's the first appeal for the settlement and obviously, very fresh settlement. So you know, just couple days after it's already getting appealed. So basically, if you remember the house settlement 2.8 billion and back damages to athletes who couldn't earn NIL before 2021 and also

allows moving forward schools to use rev share for the it later says in the art in the article, the group argues that the calculation to distribute the 2.8 billion in damages violates Title IX because female athletes would theoretically receive less money than football and men's basketball players. It says it deprives female athletes of $1.1 billion. The settlement suggests schools would have paid male athletes over 90% of their revenue over the past six years through title not as though Title IX didn't apply. If Nike wants to do that, that is their choice. If the school or conference acting on the school's

behalf, half this is from the lawyer for the the group that's that's, you know, appealing or whatever. If the school or conference acting on the school's behalf tries to do that, they are violating the law. They can either pay the athletes proportionally, or they can return all their federal funds, but they can't do both. For now, the court will stay the back damages portion of the settlement. Wilkin previously said, who is the judge, I believe, that objections related to Title IX

did not move her because the house settlement is an antitrust case, not a gender equity case. And she also though said that in her approval decision, athletes were free to sue on Title IX grounds in the future. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of comes of this because if this does lead to something if it does turn to something where yeah, they do have to like Title Nine, where you have to have equal scholarships for the two

sports, if you do have to pay the female sports the same amount that you will for the male sports. I, I don't know that that's going to be a good thing. Because here's what I think teams will do to skirt around that. They'll just say, okay, well, then we're just going to use two million or whatever it is, you know what I mean? Like they'll find loopholes. They'll say we're just going to use two million dollars of the rev share because there's not a requirement that you use all twenty million dollars per year.

And they'll just be like, OK, well, we're going to use two million dollars of the rev share. We'll give one million to the women's sports and one million to football. And then they'll just say, well, we'll just go back to the way it was where we're using an IL to fund everything. Now, I guess you could say that doesn't work if the clearinghouse objective of preventing certain too big and IL deals does work. But I remain skeptical of that working. Because again, I think what's gonna happen is the first time that they're like, hey,

you don't, you shouldn't be making that much you got overpaid, that athlete and that business or whatever is just going to sue and they're going to lose in court. That's my assumption. But you know, I could be wrong there. So I don't know, it would be interesting, though. It certainly would, you know, make for you know, interesting investment in women's sports and women's volleyball and women's basketball and some of these

players certainly are we've seen like your Caitlin Clark's your juju Watkins of the world, hexamine Nichols of Kansas, that are we do seem like you're Caitlin Clark's you're Juju Watkins of the world, Hexamine Nichols of Kansas, that are certainly worried, right? I mean, there's some great volleyball players. So it'll be very interesting to see how it shakes out because it will have an impact not just on women's sports, but also on men sports too, because then there'll be less money that you can give to football and to basketball. And then some of

these outrageous prices maybe go down. So maybe I'm actually talking myself into this a little bit as far as that goes. One other quick thing I wanted to mention here. This was brought up that there is by the NCAA that there is positive momentum toward moving college basketball games from halves to quarters. I don't have like a strong opinion on this.

I think the nostalgia in me kind of likes the halves, kind of likes that it's different than the NBA. But you think about it more and you feel like every level of basketball you play from youth basketball, to high school basketball, to then professional basketball, whether it's in the NBA, whether it's overseas, whether it's the Olympic, whatever, it's all quarters. So like, why is why is college basketball doing the haves?

Again, the nostalgia part of me is like, I kind of like the haves. But it's just a me is like, I kind of like the haves, but it's just a different way of viewing things. And it would lessen in theory, the TV timeouts, because you go from, okay, we have a TV timeout at the under four, we have the TV time, or at the under 16, at the under 12, at the under eight, right, we have basically five of those.

Now it would just be okay. You have under five and then the end of the quarter. Maybe they would get their hands on and be like, ah, let's make more money somehow, you know, I don't know, but I'm not against it. It would also help with the fouls, right? You don't have to worry about as much a team getting into the bonus too early. One of the negatives though is,

one of the cool things about the NCAA tournament and just late game situations in college basketball is the one-and-one free throw, right? There are only a limited number of them, but the missed front end of the one and one free throw, right? There are only a limited number of them. But the missed front end of the one and one leads to a lot of crazy endings in college basketball. And that would basically be eliminated, because then it would just be if you get five fouls in a quarter,

then it's the double bonus from there on. And I will say, so women's college basketball has been this way. And as somebody who has called some women's college basketball at the NAI level, there are certain games, I will say that you would think it's gonna have the opposite objective where it's like, okay, well, you know, it's gonna speed up the game. It ends up getting, you get every quarter into the double bonus on certain games

where maybe the officials are calling it very tightly. And then those games end up being even more of a slog because you get to that free throw shooting even earlier. So I don't know that that's like the ultimate solution. I think there's some positives, some negatives. Honestly, I'd be fine just staying with Habs, but I see the idea of going to quarters. So it seems like that's what they're gonna do. So I guess we'll get prepared for it.

It'll definitely be a different way of like evaluating games, of analyzing games, because it'll be like, instead of, oh, what a second half by KU. I guess second half would still exist. So the first half, but it'll more we'll be like, instead of Oh, what a second half by KU I guess second half would still exist. So the first half, but it'll more so just be like, Wow, what a fourth quarter? What a second quarter by KU and that'll be a little bit different to get used to but we certainly will as we

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