Kansas, Bill Self receive key status update on guard

Kansas guard Jalen Coleman-Lands will be available for the Jayhawks heading into Morgantown to face the West Virginia Mountaineers, head coach Bill Self confirmed to Jon Rothstein.

Coleman-Lands had been previously unavailable due to a non-COVID illness, but he’ll return to Kansas’ bench on Saturday. He missed one game this week, a 76-62 win over Oklahoma State, and has not played since Kansas’ narrow 71-69 win over Oklahoma last Saturday. In that game, Coleman-Lands — who played just five minutes — did not log any statistics.

A 6-foot-4, 190-pound guard, Coleman-Lands provides depth for Kansas at the guard position off the bench. He is averaging 4.3 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.5 assists per contest, and he’s logged some key minutes in critical Big 12 matchups this season, scoring eight points in 11 minutes against Baylor and six points in 17 minutes against Iowa State, to name a few.

Coleman-Lands transferred to Kansas after playing at Iowa State last season, where he averaged 14.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 32.8 minutes per game. Prior to his one year at Iowa State, Coleman-Lands played at DePaul, averaging roughly 10 points per contest in a two-year span, and he started his college basketball career at Illinois. In two seasons at Illinois, Coleman-Lands, a native of Indianapolis, averaged just shy of 10 points per game.

Coleman-Lands is a sixth-year senior, providing key experience on Kansas’ bench. Coming out of high school, he was tabbed a four-star recruit, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. Coleman-Lands was the No. 12 point guard in the 2015 recruiting class, as well as the No. 2 recruit coming out of the state of Indiana.

Kansas tips off at West Virginia tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET.

KenPom predicts the outcome of the next five Kansas games

The Kansas Jayhawks currently sit at the top of the standings in the Big 12 with six games remaining on their regular season schedule. Kansas is in the driver’s seat in terms of winning a regular season Big 12 championship, and KenPom expects the Jayhawks to do so. KenPom has predicted the next five games on the Kansas schedule, with a few projected wins on the way.

KenPom predictions for the next five Kansas games

Saturday, Feb. 19 at West Virginia: Kansas 76 – West Virginia 70 (71% win probability)

Tuesday, Feb. 22 vs. Kansas State: Kansas 78 – Kansas State 66 (86% win probability)

Saturday, Feb. 26 at Baylor: Baylor 78 – Kansas 74 (35% win probability)

Tuesday, March 1 at TCU: Kansas 74 – TCU 68 (70% win probability)

Thursday, March 3 vs. TCU: Kansas 77 – TCU 65 (87% win probability)

KenPom also predicts that Kansas will defeat Texas on Saturday, March 5 to wrap up the regular season.