UConn men’s basketball announces home-and-home series against Kansas

The Huskies will travel to Lawrence on Dec. 2 with the return game set for the 2026-27 season.

The UConn men’s basketball team’s mammoth 2025-26 non-conference schedule continued its upward trajectory Wednesday with the announcement of a home-and-home series between Kansas, as reported by Jon Rothstein.

UConn will hit the road for the first matchup, set to take place on Dec. 2 of this year at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, before hosting the Jayhawks in the return game sometime during the 2026-27 season. The two programs are among the most elite in the nation and are responsible for three of the last four national championship victories. Kansas claimed the crown in 2022 before UConn did the same in 2023 and 2024.

Kansas finished 21-13 last season in a heavily-contested SEC last season and was bounced from the NCAA Tournament by Arkansas in the first round. They are again poised to be one of the nation’s top teams this upcoming season, ranked No. 31 in the Rothstein 45. Head coach Bill Self overhauled his roster following last season, saying goodbye to his four top scorers. Hunter Dickinson (17.4 ppg), Zeke Mayo (14.6 ppg), KJ Adams (9.4) and Dajuan Harris Jr. (9.2 ppg) have all moved on from the program, making way for a new era in Jayhawk basketball.

UConn is winless in four tries against Kansas all time, with the two teams having played as recently as Dec. 1, 2023. The Huskies fell by four points to the then-No. 5 ranked Jayhawks, but would go on to win the national championship later that season. Kansas claimed its three other wins over UConn in 1995, 1997 and 2015.

After Dan Hurley renounced MTEs following the disastrous Maui Invitational last November, Hurley and his staff turned around to assemble one of the most prominent non-conference schedules in program history. In November, UConn will play the No. 1 high school prospect AJ Dybantsa and BYU at TD Garden, as well as Arizona and Illinois. In December, the Huskies will travel to Kansas before squaring off against the defending national champions in Florida. After, the Huskies will host Texas in a return game of home-and-home series that began last year with a Husky win over the Longhorns.

Outside of exhibition matches and the NCAA Tournament, UConn played 11 non-conference games last season. Just six are known for next year with more announcements to come in the near future.