KU has benefitted from a few poor Kentucky seasons, such as last season, and KU of course has had a few subpar seasons along the way where Kentucky was able gain back a little breathing room. Due to the excellence of both programs since Calipari took over at UK in 2010 it has been a very slow approach.

If I remember correctly, UK and UNC surpassed 200 wins before KU, but we passed up UNC soon after and have been closing in on UK ever since. Is it a factor, sure, but is it the leading factor that would undercut the success of reaching that milestone, no.Д«enny is right, while there may have been some people keeping tabs on the all-time wins record, I certainly know that I had no idea of it until the season that UK, UNC, and KU all were approaching 2000 wins. and a minor detail if mentioned at all is the number of attempts that it took to get there relative to others on the list. When coaches or players or teams break records, the story is that they won the games or scored the most points, etc. I don't know that the stat 'completely falls apart' when we consider how many years the programs have existed/games played. 500 in those games, we'd have added another 6 or 7 wins at their expense for a 12 or 14 game net change. KU is 10-23 against Kentucky all time, and if we were just around. Hell, if we were stronger in just the head to head matchups we could have flipped this years ago. Some tourney runs cut short prematurely and some lean years under Harp and Owens probably cost that from happening. Based on that, we should probably have more wins than Kentucky, but we don't. I understand the basis of your argument about the total number of seasons and recognize that KU has played basketball for 124 seasons (1898-present) compared to 114 for Kentucky (1903-present). If you scroll the KU wikipedia page, the laundry list of categories in which KU is first or highly ranked is really impressive and adding something like all-time wins would only enhance that further. Being the best at something or having the most of some counting stat in sports is a nice bragging right for the fans and something that the program can use in marketing materials. I don't think anyone was really tracking it or aware of the all-time wins until Kentucky was the first team to reach 2,000 wins as a program and KU was shortly behind them. HereвЂ™s a quick look at the season-by-season breakdown of Kansas and Kentucky victories since Self took the reins in Lawrence. It remains a storyline each week, no matter what the gap is, and it will be a storyline moving forward no matter how many times the top spot is traded or how far ahead one team or the other gets. While those records matter a lot for the current season and the upcoming two-month stretch that will decide the 2022 national champion, thoughts of where these two programs rank on the all-time wins list likely will never be far from the minds of KU fans. Fifth-ranked KU enters the weekend at 17-2 overall and the 12th-ranked Wildcats are currently 16-4. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse on ESPN with College Gameday in the house - possibly being for the top spot, but they didnвЂ™t quite get there.

There was talk - also known as hope among Kansas fans - about their 2022 meeting 5 p.m. KUвЂ™s +12 edge in the win column last season marked the second highest total for either program during SelfвЂ™s time in Lawrence.

Last seasonвЂ™s 9-16 record for the Wildcats helped KU make a major move - the Jayhawks won 21 games last season - and Kansas might even be in first place right now if not for the pandemic shutting down the 2020 NCAA Tournament and shortening the 2020-21 seasons. Since then, Self has racked up 539 wins while the Wildcats have added 494 victories in that time, under Tubby Smith, Billy Gillespie and John Calipari. When Self took over for Roy Williams before the 2003-04 season, KU sat at 1,801 wins and Kentucky was at 1,849. In his 19 seasons leading the Jayhawks, Self has presided over a stretch that has closed the gap by 45 games. ItвЂ™s the closest the two have been in years and KU coach Bill Self is responsible for a lot of it. 13 Texas Tech in its last outing, sits at 2,340 all-time wins. Kansas, which won a double-overtime thriller with No. Kentucky, which topped Mississippi State in overtime on Tuesday night, enters this weekendвЂ™s blue blood showdown with 2,343 all-time wins. The answer today, a little more than 48 hours out from their meeting at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday is three games. While the specifics of those games are always important - Who scored? What happened on defense? Can this player or that player really keep this up? - the one big-picture thing that so many people want to know after each one is simple: How far behind Kentucky is Kansas for first place on the all-time wins list?

ItвЂ™s obsessively tracked by Kansas basketball fans year after year. Kansas guard Christian Braun (2) signals 'three' after hitting one during the first half on Saturday, Jan.

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