Kansas University sophomore guard Brannen Greene will start Saturday’s game against Utah (2:15 p.m., Sprint Center), coach Bill Self said Friday.
Greene, who hit five threes and scored 19 points Wednesday against Georgetown, will open in place of Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, who had started the last six games. The other starters remain Frank Mason III, Perry Ellis, Landen Lucas and Wayne Selden Jr.
Freshman Devonté Graham is “questionable at best” because of a “sore toe,” Self said. Graham hurt his toe, not his ankle, Wednesday against Georgetown and missed the final 10 minutes of the KU victory. It earlier had been believed he had an ankle injury. Self said if he plays it’ll likely be limited duty.
Meanwhile, Jamari Traylor returns from his one-game suspension for “interfering with the duties of an officer” at the scene of a fight last weekend.
“Jamari is going to suit and play. He’s obviously paid the penalty for making a poor decision on not cooperating on something he wasn’t remotely involved in,” Self said. “It brought a lot of negative attention on him. Certainly he’s embarrassed by it. The only way you can handle this, like we’ve told him is become a better man because of it and identify why that would happen. He’s certainly working on that and open to doing that. I don’t see any reason for penalizing him any more than what we’ve already done.”
Also former KU manager James Cox takes over for Jeff Forbes as video coordinator. Forbes has taken a job with Synergy, Self said.
