Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Is Kansas a Souped Up Version of 2025 Michigan State? Plus, Grading the Jayhawks Offseason Additions

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks basketball: The next Michigan State Spartans from the 2024-2025 season? Could Bill Self's squad be poised for an Elite Eight run with star guard Darryn Peterson leading the charge, similar to Jace Peterson and Tom Izzo this past March?Derek Johnson breaks down KU's striking similarities to last year's Spartans, grading the Jayhawks' offseason additions and their potential impact. From Jayden Dawson's fit to Tre White's crucial role, Johnson analyzes how these pieces could elevate Kansas in the upcoming season. Plus, get the latest on KU's new football punter for Lance Leipold and the Jayhawks' TBT team, JHX, success in a 91-78 first round victory in The Basketball Tournament. Will Bill Self's strategic moves and Peterson's talent propel Kansas to new heights? Tune in for expert insights on the Jayhawks' path to March Madness glory and beyond.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 LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at www.monarchmoney.com/lockedoncollege for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get ONE HUNDRED FIFTY 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)

I'm going to tell you why Kansas might compare similarly and maybe favorably to a team that made the Elite 8 from this past season. And now they could be a version of them that's maybe souped up, maybe a little chance for a little bit more this season. You are Locked On Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks. of the locked on podcast network your team every day. What's going on everybody Derek Johnson here at D Johnson radio on Twitter and you can find locked on Jayhawks anywhere you get your podcast including on our YouTube page we can like and subscribe to the show. Thank you to the every dayers catching each and every episode of the show and tuning in wherever you listen and thanks for making locked on Jay Hawks your first listen every day on today's episode of L.O.J. We're going to be talking if this Kansas team can be a souped up version of Michigan State from last year, a team that made the elite eight in the Kansas oddly enough

defeated in the non-conference portion of the season. We're also going to grade the Kansas basketball offseason and get some of the latest news, including with the Kansas TBT team. Today's episode of the show is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKDONCOLLege at MonarchMoney.com for 50% off your first year. Alright, so I kind of think there are some similarities you can make between the roster that has been built by Bill Self for this year's KU basketball team and the Michigan State team from this past season. I think to me, the whole idea of this starts with to the fact that I mean, I don't know

if you include Michigan saying the Blue Bloods to me, they'd probably be in that like second tier, or whatever that would be like the tier one is your Kansas and Kentucky's and Dukes and North Carolina's and stuff like that. Your tier twos are probably a Michigan State but whatever it's point being, it's a dominant college basketball program, so to speak. And that's the case with Michigan State. That's the case with Kansas, right. And the case for

Michigan State coming into last season was that they were being you know, slept on a little bit and then the certain bit of that was because of you know, not a ton of success the previous couple seasons for Tom is like, coming into last season, they lost in the second round of the tournament. The year before that they made the sweet 16, but they were 17. And you know, the year before they were nine seeds. So like, kind of similar to Kansas where it's like, okay, is was Tom is losing his fast

balls, Bill self losing his fastball. And then we found out this year. No, that's not the case. Like Tom Hizzo is just fine. They finished seventh on Ken Palm this year. They started the season 35th on Ken Palm, right? They were not a team that people were clamoring should be ranked in the top 15 and the top 25 in preseason rankings.

You look at Kansas, I think they'll be ranked. Although like the guy like John Rothstein doesn't have them in this top 25. But I don't know that anybody's going to really do a majority of people. I don't think our big chunk of people are going to have them in the top 10 or the top even maybe 15. And so it feels like they're being slept on a little bit similar

to how Michigan State was last year. And obviously, again, Michigan State ended up being finishing seventh in Ken Palm, they won 30 games, they made it to the elite eight in which they lost to Auburn, who was the number one overall seed by six points. Like very good season for Michigan State, right? They were 17 and three in conference play. Very good season for Michigan State.

Right. And if you said right now that Kansas would get a top two seed in the NCAA tournament and make it to the second weekend of the tournament for the first time in what? Three, four seasons, I guess by the time 2026 NCAA tournament happens, four years. I think Kansas fans would be pretty happy with with the result there. Right. I think by the time 2026 NCAA tournament happens four years. I think Kansas fans would be pretty happy with with the result there, right? I think the the. I don't know comparison continues to when you look at both of them having like one kind of star guard, so to speak, like with Michigan State, it took a little later into

the season for them to like when Kansas played Michigan State earlier near Jace Richardson, who ended up being a first round pick as a one and done freshman, he was still coming off the bench and he was still playing good minutes and contributing, but it wasn't to the level he was later in the season when it kind of went from, okay, he's a, you know, a good score for us and a good player coming off the bench and one of our better players. Till later in the season, it became we're going to build the offense around him for what Michigan State did.

The difference there is that with Kansas and Bill Self, it's probably going to be like that from the word go with Darren Peterson, like, this isn't going to be okay, you know, we're going to feel it out. And then in January, we'll build it around Peterson. No, it's been built around Peterson, but you have a star guard. And that's what I mean, when I said earlier, I think Kansas could be a souped up version of this, because as good as Jace Richardson was, especially over the back half of the season as a true freshman, I think Peterson is going to be even better. And so if you're saying, OK, there's some similarities between these teams

and you have the better version of the superstar, that's a good place to start. But you look at it and that Michigan State team, why were they so good this past season? They finished 25th on offense. They finished fourth on defense. I think there's a chance Kansas could be in that range. I think Kansas is going to have one of the best

defenses in the country. When you look at the positional size, when you look at the athleticism that they have all over the court, when you look at some of the impact defenders that they might have, the offense, I think Kansas is going to have one of the best defenses in the country. When you look at the positional size, when you look at the athleticism that they have all over the court, when you look at some of the impact defenders that they might have, the offense I think is going to be better than it's been in recent years because you have more guys like Darren Peterson that can kind of get you a bucket here or there. I don't know that I, because I do have some questions about the three-point shooting, I do wonder like, okay, could the offense be top 30 good, top 25 good?

Yes. Are they probably going to be top 5 good? I don't know. That remains to be seen to me unless like you have guys to break out in a real way shooting. But again, Michigan State finishes the top 25 offense and they did it on the backs of like two point offense, getting into the free throw line and rebounding the basketball. Michigan State was not a good three point shooting team

last season. They were a strong rebounding the basketball. Michigan State was not a good three point shooting team last season. They were a strong rebounding team. They were an athletic team who was really good in transition and not a very good shooting team, and that could be the path for Kansas this year, right? Again, Kansas has a ton of positional

size, length, wingspan, versatility. Kansas has a ton of good athletes. Kansas should be really good in transition this year. Just like Michigan State was last year. You look at Michigan State's rebounding numbers from this past season, 28th in offensive rebound rate, ninth in defensive rebound rate.

Maybe those end up a little higher than where Kansas is, but like Kansas could finish around, you know, a couple of those marks. And then you also say that, okay, you know, strong two-point offensive teams. Well, Michigan State finished 107th in the country in two point offense. So like they were they were solid at it, but they weren't like a lead at it. And part of that is teams get to pack the paint because they know

you're not a good three point shooting team. There's a chance Kansas could be better than that. But here's the big one. Again, the going back to the idea that Kansas could be a souped up version, a better version of it. OK, maybe you're a little worse. The rebounding Michigan State was three hundred and nineteenth in the country in three point percentage, a better version of it. OK, maybe you're a little worse at the rebounding. Michigan State was 319th in the country in three-point percentage, 31.1%. They were also 327th in the country in three-point attempt

rate. So I, again, have questions about what the three-point shooting is going to be for this Kansas team. But I think it's better than that. I think it's better than 300. My questions are more so, are they going to finish 200? Are they going to finish around nationally average? Are they going to shoot 33%, 33 and 1 half percent from three?

Is that going to be enough? But if you look at Michigan State, that would be worlds better than what they ended up shooting from three point range, going back to the idea that it could be a souped up version of that. And you look at the defensive side of the floor, what made Michigan State so good this past season? They were they got a little bit maybe fortunate because they

have the second best three point defense in the country. So maybe a little bit of that is luck. Maybe a bit of that is scheme and what they wanted to do. But they were top 30 in the country and block right defensively right. And okay, what does Kansas have the ability to do with Florida and Paul and be a probably block a lot of shots this upcoming season, right? They were if you look at Big Ten only play for Michigan State, they were fifth in two point defense.

So like they had a solid two point defense. But I think Kansas can be even better than that. The big key was kind of the rebounding. They were first in the country or first in Big Ten only play in both offensive and defensive rebound rate. So if we say that OK, Kansas should kind of the rebounding. They were first in the country, or first in Big 10 only play in both offensive and defensive rebound rate. So if we say that, OK, Kansas should be a good rebounding team this year when you look at Flory and Ambiya and Trey White and just having guards

who are athletic and are going to get their nose dirty and get those rebounds. But maybe they're not as good of a rebounding team, but they can be a better three-point shooting team. They have a better superstar in Darren Peterson. And maybe they can be an even better two-point defense than Michigan State was. And then you can be an even better two point defense than Michigan State was.

And then you also look and say, OK, Michigan State was only 264th in the country in turnover rate defense. That's a number that I think Kansas will be better at this year. That's a number that both by having those guards with long arms and having positional versatility can create havoc. But also I think with having more of like Flory Badunga

and stuff at the center, I think Kansas was stuck in having to play. I know they still did a lot of their hard hedging and icing ball screens and stuff with Hunter, but they did at times really have to play kind of a drop defense with Hunter. I think you have more opportunity with what you can do schematically on the defensive end. And if you're playing a drop, it's going to be really hard to force a lot of turnovers like that just, it's more of like a thinking football, like kind of a

sitting back type of zone. Like we're going to make them beat us. Whereas like if you're playing man to man, sure, you might get burned every now and then, but you might cause more interceptions, you might cause more sacks. And that's how it is kind of in basketball where it's like if you're playing a drop, like you might get good chop blocks in the inside. You might make certain things harder in the inside, you might make certain things harder, you might, you know, funnel them into

taking more mid range shots, but you might create less turnovers too. And I think that'll be a little bit of a difference. So I say all this to say like, um, I think that Michigan State team probably had more like depth of bigs. And again, the rebounding, while I still think will be good this year for KU, maybe it won't be quite as elite as Michigan State but I do think there are a lot of similarities between how this KU roster has been built and

what Michigan State just did this past season that gives me a lot of hope that KU can and should outperform where some people are prognosticating they are in the preseason again the Michigan State team two seed they made an elite eight that would be, the Michigan State team, two seed, they made an Elite Eight. That would be KU's best run since 2022 when they won the national championship. And if we're saying they're a souped up version, if we're saying they're a better version

of the Michigan State team, then why can't you make it even further? And who knows, for all we know, if Michigan State would have got a different bracket, if they didn't face the number one overall seed, like, I guess it's hard to say because it was all four one seeds, right? But for all

we know if they were playing Houston in the elite eight could they have been used I don't know it's entirely possible so definitely a compliment if you can be a souped up version of this past year's Michigan State team and I think there's a chance that that could be the case for this Kansas basketball team. How did that happen? Well, the offseason was a big part of it. Let's grade what happened or has happened so far. Are we done? I don't know. So far in the offseason. We'll get to that next. This is Locked on Jayhawks.

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which I guess the first part of this is like, it felt like we were done after they added Paul M. Bia and Cole Rosario, and then Noah Shelby left, and now they're back to two open spots. And it's like, they could be done. They're still 12 scholarship players. But at the same point in time, it's like, well, there've been a few names that have been kicked around,

like maybe they could add one more guy, you know, or maybe they had one more guy and one more guy who's more of your developmental like long term piece that isn't going to cost a lot of money, it's entirely possible. So there could be more offseason left to be had. But as of right now, I wanted to grade this offseason for KU. Now, I should say I'm not grading the freshman editions, which I know technically Cole Rosario becomes an offseason edition with the timeline of when he joined.

But I don't know, I view freshmen into that a little bit differently, especially because, you know, some guys commit way earlier than others. So I just wanted to view this as like your transfer and international edition, so to speak. And I will say I find it kind of funny that as much as we've talked over the offseason here, as much as we've gone over players and deep dives and rumored interest and names that have popped up with Kansas or that, you know, Kansas has popped up with names, and that we have, we have spent so much

time talking about all these guys and with how many players transfer out of Kansas, how many open scholarship spots they had and how much filling of the roster they had to do. Just off the top of my head when I was like, okay, how many players did KU add? Like how many new guys are there on KU? And I was like, oh, there's got to be what?

Like for obviously, you know, Portal and International editions, there's got to be what? Like six or something. I was thinking back and I was like, what? There's really there were what like for obviously, you know, portal and international editions. They're gonna be what like six or something. I was thinking about it. I was like, what? There's really, there were only three portal editions as much as we've talked about the portal off season. Three portal editions is all that happened this off season.

It feels like there should have been way more by then. Obviously the fourth, if you're counting international with Paul and Bea. So let's go player by player. So I think the first one to commit was Jade and Dawson. And that was kind of it. it just popped up out of nowhere and was seems really good addition. I'm going to give this one a B.

I thought about giving this one a B plus. I'll get into why in a second. To me, like I would give like C's would be passing grades. I know C doesn't sound illustrious, but C I would give a passing grade. D would be like, I don't know about this, F would be like, that was a horrible addition. Why did you do that? A would be like, I think you can come in and be like an all conference player right away, right? So I

don't know that I expect Dawson be an all conference player right away. That's why I'm giving it a B as opposed to, you know, an A or an A minus or something like that. I did think about making it a B plus, though, because if you're talking about adding fit, and that's something we talked about coming in the offseason, can build self go for fit over talent. And there's not a better like example of that than Jayden Dawson, somebody who can play off ball or can play on ball can

shoot the three ball can play defense like is seen by his you know, if you talk to like Loyola Chicago fans and stuff like he was kind of a dog and like somebody that they really respected and appreciated. All of this makes me think closer to be plus the thing is, and I don't know, maybe they should maybe they shouldn't matter. Like maybe I shouldn't factor in my guesses of what's going to happen. But like, it does kind of have a feeling right now,

which also we're so far away from the start of the season that so much can change. But right now it almost feels like Elmarco Jackson and Melvin Council might be a little bit further ahead on the depth chart than Jayden Dawson. And again, it might be minute. It might be, oh, Elmarco is playing 26 minutes per game and Jayden Dawson's playing 24.

You know, it might be super small, but that's like in the back of my head of like, okay, well then if I give him a B plus, and you're saying that Melvin Council theoretically is ahead of him, who I'm about to get to here, then don't have to give Melvin Council the same grade or better than where he is, right? And that's where I kind of get difficult here.

But Dawson's a B, honestly, for my money, Dawson is my favorite addition. The K you had via the portal or internationally, right? Obviously not talking like incoming freshmen, but I love the addition. I'm just curious, like is Bill Self, especially on a team that needs more three point like, is Bill Self, especially on a team that needs more three point shooting, is Bill Self going

to use him as much as I think he should be used on this year's team? This is the guy where, OK, the next set, let's talk Melvin Council. And I guess this is actually out of order, because I think Council was the third of the three transfers coming in to commit. But it just makes sense to segue from what

we were just talking about. So this is a tough one, great. I'm also going to give Council a and like not not to just OK, the same way again, if I was grading this based on like what I like, what I wanted from a player, I think I would have counsel somewhere. I don't know, like again, you it's impossible not to factor in fit. Is Bill Self going to like you, therefore allowing you to play a big role on the team. And I think the questions I have for counsel, which are mostly about like efficiency, lack of, you know, consistently

shooting the basketball well from three point range, the fact that he doesn't get to the free throw line a lot, even though he's a good athlete and can get downhill at a good level, like those things are probably have me closer to a B minus or a B on counsel specifically. I do love the defense though. I think I'd probably have it closer to me. I think if I was grading this, like if I was grading it from the perspective of what is Bill self think I could see this being a B plus and Dawson being a B or B minus. And I think counsel is going to play a big role. I think counsel is going to play 30 plus minutes per game.

And so that's where I also run into things where it's like, OK, I also go back to the scale of A's are all conference players. I don't know that I project him to be that. But if he's going to be a 30 plus minute per game guy in Kansas, who's a good passer, a good athlete, good transition player, can score a little bit here and there occasionally as this hot aims and is arguably the best perimeter defender on the team. Is that worth more than just a straight B?

Maybe it is, right? But I'm going to give it a B because I do have the questions about the shootings, particularly about the fit with Kansas and needing more shooting, even though I am happy that Bill Self went for somebody that like he's going to love and he's going to play like that is a good thing. So I have Dawson and Council both as bees again. I might have Dawson more of a B plus and counsel more as a B or B minus.

I think Bill Self might have those switched, you know, so we're going to just average out in the middle and have them both as bees. Trey White. We're going to give this one actually B plus. I love Trey White's fit as a wing four and especially when you look at how the rest of the roster ended up getting built out.

It's Samiz Calderon on the wing and like that's L-SIT right. And we don't know how ready Samiz Calderon is going to be. And so if you didn't have Trey White, you're either starting two bigs or you're starting like a fourth ball handling guard right. Trey White is a fulcrum. He is a key piece in what this roster is and has become for Kansas. So part of it is the scarcity in position. But I also just I really like his game. And like the one thing that keeps holding me back with with,

you know, I guess maybe not making this an area minus is that Trey White has not been on like he was on a solid Illinois team last year. They got a six seed made the second round of the NCAA tournament. His first two years, though, wasn't really on winning winning teams. At least I don't think I think USC was like below 500 his first year. Obviously Louisville was a disaster with Kenny Payne, but that's probably more in pain than it is with Trey White. I think Trey White is a good basketball player. And the

reason I really love this, as you build around Darren Peterson and Flory Badunga and all these guys, you need players who can do lots of different things, right? Like Melvin Council can be a great defender and Jaden Dawson can be a three point shooter. Trey White is kind of a jack of different things, right? Like Melvin Council can be a great defender and Jaden Dawson can be a three point shooter. Trey White is kind of a jack of all trades. Like he can be an elite rebounder. He can be a solid defender. He can shoot the occasional open three, you know, he can create the occasional closeout opportunity that he drives to the rim and finishes. He can make a pass here or there, right? There's just a lot of things he does well.

And he almost becomes that like. I don't know, to a certain standpoint, like a bit of a glue guy for Kansas in a real way that he's just going to do a little bit of everything for you. And for that reason and because of the positional scarcity. And I especially do love the rebounding, like you look at the offensive and defensive rebound rates for like wings. He basically was in like 89 percent dollar higher at both. I think that's going to make Kansas a really good rebounding team when you combine that when he's playing next to like Florida, but doing go like they're going to go after some boards and get them.

So I'm going to give that one to be plus. Now, if we add him to this question, right, as kind of a quasi transfer, I guess he was committed to NC State at one point in time, but got out of his ally. But as an international player coming in, I think I'd give the Mbia one. I don't know, this one's tough. Because he is so ceiling. And like, if Mbia comes in, he's one of the best backup centers in the country, that would not surprise me because the dude's got like a seven nine wingspan. You don't see that a lot at the college level. You could also convince me that he's too raw and it's like,

okay, you might have some struggles there at different points. So I'm going to go with a B for Paul and Bea, I guess. This is one where I think if you would have added Ege Demir, like I might have had that as an A-. Now, part of that could be that would you been able to get him eligible or not? If you would have added Bryce Desair, which we've gone over that like Bill Self was right and not doing that because it doesn't

seem like that was going to be a possibility to get him eligible. But if you would have been able to, that would have probably been an A or an A minus for me. I'm going to go with a B for him. Be and I think the long term potential. If you told me and be a stage for two three seasons seasons of Kansas, like I think you're two year three.

You might be looking at an A honestly, but for this year specifically, you know, there are some questions about the rawness. How ready is he going to be right away? That's what keeps it away from an A for me. But also when you have that length of the college level that guys don't see very often and when you are selling a backup center spot, which is going to be a little bit harder to sell to certain guys who maybe want a ton of playing time. I do think that was a very solid addition for KU and Bills Self.

And so overall, if you just add up all of those, right, basically you end up with, okay, I had three B's and a B plus, essentially, right? That basically averages out to being basically a B, right? And that makes sense to me, right? Because if we're looking at what this offseason was for KU, I think it was a good offseason. It was one where they filled a lot of needed roles around Darren Peterson. But you also felt a little short that you didn't add that one other game changer, that one other player that you feel like can be a for sure all-conference player,

like your Darian Williams, your Dame Sar, one of these other players, your Donovan Dents, your Kishon Hall, it felt like you were one like big game changer short in that regard. And that's probably what would have made it an A. But you still probably got to be this offseason, which is still good. And when you factor in that Darren Peterson is really the biggest offseason get of them all. I mean, it's basically it would be an A if you include him, right?

And that's the most important thing. But I do think this this was a bit of an underrated one, because I do think if you ask probably some national media, how would you grade the KU off season? I think they probably get a lot of C's from people not really taking into account the role type of stuff as much as we do from kind of the local level. All right, let's finish up here. Latest news. This is Lockdown Jayhawks.

Thanks for joining us on LOJ. And again, don't forget you check out locked on college football or locked on college basketball for your second listen every day. KU football has a new punter Efren Jasso. I don't know if that's the proper way to pronounce it kind of sounds like a Star Wars character. Efren Jasso like he's like a bounty hunter that's been, I don't know, searching for somebody for a long period of time. He's, he's probably pretty good at his job. Anyway, he pretty good at his job, too. He's a punter, you know, as a scholarship playing college basketball, but he began his career at Arkansas. Pine Bluff, also known as

Arkansas PB and jelly. He had 67 punts last season, average 40 per game, so not the biggest number that you're talking about. You know, but he's somebody who comes in. We know Finn Lapin is I think going to be a really good punter for KU this year. Jasso comes in as a senior. He's punted three seasons.

The beauty of that is you could redshirt him this season, right? Keep him in four games or less. Ideally, he's in none because at punter, you don't really need to rotate punters and he can redshirt and you basically have a year of training. Your next punters that next offseason, you don't have to worry about the punter. So like that edition from Lance Lightbulb, just kind of a small one, but you know, one that could could save you having to do something this next offseason and focus in more on the, you know, one that could could save you having to do something this next offseason and focusing more on the, you know, receiver, I don't know, offense line, whatever spots you

need. The Kansas TBT team, also known as Jay Hawks, J H X, they defeated off the hook in their first round matchup. 91 to 78 was the final score. The rebounding as you would expect Kansas is loaded with four in there playing big like you got Billy Preston playing the four next to like essentially like Kevin Young at the four or I'm sorry Billy Preston playing three with like Jamari trailer at the four or something and then like Cliff Alexander at the fight like they've got size and they took advantage of 44 to 24 rebounding advantage for them the big key is going to be avoiding those turnovers they were outscored 32 to 15 and points off turnovers, but they win their first game and you got to see Cliff Alexander go off 17 points 11 rebounds, double double Billy Preston, probably the best player for this Kansas team. I don't know 19 points six

rebounds five assists for him. And then off the bench we got to see Jacob Hannah from Washburn source six points. That was cool. Marcus Bell had 15 points on six or seven. He's a former like Juco and some other smaller school product. So good successful first game for them as they won by 13. Now tonight, if you're listening on Monday, they're playing the Kansas State alumni team. So a little extra there should be a fun one. And we'll see if they can make it to the round of 16. Once

again, the last thing I wanted to mention later this weekend upcoming it's this Sunday is our trivia event at Johnny's Tavern in West Lawrence. So last chance during this week to get registered. We've got double digit teams right now. You can have a team up to six people. There's a small entry fee, but it's single digit dollars per person if you have six people in there.

And all the money goes to the prize pot. Not taking a dime of it myself. It's all going to the prize pot for the winners. We have prizes going out for I think it's like the top three teams. All the money goes to the prize spot, not taking a dime of it myself. It's all going to the prize pot for the winners. We have prizes going out for I think it's like the top three teams. We're also giving away like gift cards and apparel during it that you could be the last place team. But if you get like the bonus question, you might win some free apparel and stuff and

it's going to be a good time. You can come hang out. It's all KU basketball trivia. So I highly recommend checking that out. It's jhawk trivia at gmail.com. You can hit me up on social media and I'll make sure to direct you in the right ways to get registered for that this Sunday at six o'clock over at Johnny's Tavern in West Lawrence. That'll do it for this episode of Locked on Jayhawks.

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