Texas, which pulled off a rare home-and-home sweep of Kansas during the regular season a year ago, on Monday night will try to become the first Big 12 men's basketball team to defeat the Jayhawks three straight times during the 19-year Bill Self era.
Oklahoma State, in fact, is the only other league squad to take two straight from KU in the same regular-season campaign under Self. The Cowboys won in both Lawrence and Stillwater in 2017-18.
Tipoff for the Big Monday game between the No. 10-ranked Jayhawks (19-3, 8-1) and No. 23 Longhorns (17-6, 6-4) is 8 p.m. (ESPN). Iowa State, by the way, is the last league team to beat KU three consecutive times. The Cyclones won five in a row over the Jayhawks spanning the 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-01 seasons. Roy Williams was head coach at that time.
