{"id":62952,"date":"2017-10-13T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=62952"},"modified":"2017-10-13T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T00:01:41","slug":"hate-for-love-kansas-and-missouri-to-play-exhibition-game-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/10\/13\/hate-for-love-kansas-and-missouri-to-play-exhibition-game-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate for Love: Kansas and Missouri to play exhibition game for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coach Bill Self confirmed today that the basketball team will be playing an exhibition game against the University of Missouri to raise money for hurricane relief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jayhawks have not faced off against the Tigers since their final game in 2012, where the Jayhawks won 87-86 in overtime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self said the NCAA was not concerned with recreating a Border Showdown, but they thought playing Mizzou would result in the highest amount of money raised for hurricane victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only interest is because we have an opportunity through NCAA approval to do something for others that we wouldn\u2019t have had a chance to do at this level if we didn\u2019t play Mizzou,\u201d Self said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self said the players found out about the game yesterday. Sophomore forward Mitch Lightfoot is excited for the the exhibition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cObviously that\u2019s a fun game, and for charity that\u2019s gonna be a good game,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just really excited to get out there and represent KU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition match is set for Sunday, Oct. 22 at the Sprint Center, with tip off at 3pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a great opportunity for two schools to do something together for the better of the masses,\u201d Self said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KJHK \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kjhk\">@kjhk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KJHK Sports \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KJHKsports\">@KJHKsports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sports@kjhk.org<\/p>\n<p><em>featured image courtesy of Meredith Chapple<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Bill Self confirmed today that the basketball team will be playing an exhibition game against the University of Missouri to raise money for hurricane relief. The Jayhawks have not faced off against the Tigers since their final game in 2012, where the Jayhawks won 87-86 in overtime. Self said the NCAA was not concerned with recreating a Border Showdown, but they thought playing Mizzou would result in the highest amount of money raised for hurricane victims. \u201cThe only interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20152,"featured_media":62953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3262,610],"tags":[127,640,7734,2157,7735,109,87,123,469,118,7736,1863,3488],"class_list":["post-62952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-sports","category-sports-articles","tag-basketball","tag-border-war","tag-charity","tag-college-basketball","tag-hurricane-relief","tag-jayhawks","tag-kansas","tag-ku","tag-missouri","tag-mizzou","tag-ncaa-college","tag-sprint-center","tag-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2608.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}