Kansas basketball: Ranking the five most crucial non-conference games of 2020

Kansas basketball is set to play a tough non-conference schedule next season. These are the five most important games for the Jayhawks.

Death, taxes, and Kansas basketball playing one of the toughest schedules in the country. The Jayhawks’ schedules in the past two seasons have ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, and next season will probably be towards the top too.

Now that the Kansas Jayhawks have released their non-conference, we can start to pick out the games that should be huge resume boosters when tournament time comes around. The fact that Kansas doesn’t make it easy is a good thing, since playing against solid teams in totally necessary in order to receive a No. 1 or 2 seed in March Madness.

Even though we didn’t get to see where the Jayhawks would be seeded for the 2020 tournament, it stands to reason that they would have been the No. 1 overall seed, partially based on their wins over Dayton, BYU, Colorado, Stanford, and ETSU.

Based on the top teams the Jayhawks will be competing against next season in the non-con schedule, they’ll have another great chance at a No. 1 seed as long as they also take care of business against opponents in the Big 12.

Here are the top five most important games on Kansas basketball’s 2020 non-conference schedule.