Anyone want to proffer an opinion on how good of a 3-point shooting team Stanford is? IMO, that's the whole key to this game against Kansas...
74th in the nation in percentage, 238 (out of 351) in attempts...37% 6 for 16 per game, while Kansas hits 34.5%, just under 6 for 16 per game.. Kansas is an offensive powerhouse, but their D is one of the worst in recent Kansas hoops history, especially the perimeter defense. They struggle and get beat when opponents get hot from outside. With Embiid out, the interior d gets softer, which might make the perimeter even more open. Stanford's D gets relatively worse as the caliber of their opponents offense improves, so they aren't a great matchup for a strong offensive Team like Kansas, under normal circumstances, but with Embiid out, circumstances aren't normal.
I think this is just one to stay away from. Could go either way.
ETA: What I was looking for was if Stanford represented enough of a 3 point threat, first by being an upper-echelon 3 point shooting team, second, by a significance difference between their quality in that regard versus Kansas. Stanford is an above average 3 point threat, but Kansas appears to be capable of trading 3's with them if it comes down to it. Even if Stanford has better than average 3 point defense, Kansas is just such a scoring machine, they could compensate for it by scoring more baskets overall, and probably shooting, and making more free throws.
Stanford needs to do everything they can to slow this game down, I don't know if they can, or not. If if devolves into a shootout, Kansas superior offense SHOULD win out, as Stanford's defense gets worse as the offense they face gets better...just too many 'what if's'.