{"id":858769,"date":"2026-09-24T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:04:13","slug":"kentucky-basketball-vs-kansas-jayhawks-game-time-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858769\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Basketball vs. Kansas Jayhawks game time revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 2026-27 college basketball season is almost here, and we now know the tip-off time for one of <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Basketball<\/a>\u2019s biggest games of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Wednesday, the school announced that the Champions Classic showdown with the Kansas Jayhawks will begin at approximately 9:30 PM ET. It will be the second game of a doubleheader that starts things off with the Duke Blue Devils facing the Michigan State Spartans at 7 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Because the second game can\u2019t begin until 30 minutes after the first game concludes, fans should be prepared for Kentucky &#8211; Kansas to begin closer to around 9:45 PM ET. Both games will be broadcast on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This will be the first major regular-season test for the Wildcats, who are hovering around the 20-25 range of preseason college basketball polls. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/49795611\/mens-ncaa-basketball-2026-27-way-too-early-top-25-rankings-biggest-question\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\u2019s most recent ranking<\/a> has Kentucky as No. 22 and Kansas at No. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026-27 college basketball season is almost here, and we now know the tip-off time for one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,48686,114404,575,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-858769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-schedule","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}