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RADFORD, Va. – Radford closes out a five-game road trip by playing the top-ranked team for the first time in program history when the Highlanders travel to Kansas on Wednesday night for a nationally-televised (ESPNU) meeting with the Jayhawks at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Wednesday marks the second time in 2009-10 that Radford (4-2) plays a team from the top 10 (Nov. 21 - No. 8 Duke), and the seventh time since joining Division I in 1984 that the Highlanders face a team in the Associated Press top 10. It's also the fifth time in the last three seasons that Radford will face a top-10 foe.

Kansas and Radford will meet for the first time on Wednesday. The Jayhawks improved to 7-0 for the third time under seventh-year head coach Bill Self with a 73-61 win at UCLA on Sunday in the Big XII/Pac 10 Hardwood Series.

Kansas is 5-0 at Allen Fieldhouse in 2009-10 and owns the nation's longest home winning streak at 46. Radford is winners of 11 of its last 13 road contests.

Highlighting Wednesday's matchup is a meeting between two of the country's top-performing frontcourt players – Cole Aldrich of Kansas and Radford's Art Parakhouski (Minsk, Belarus).

Aldrich, a 6-11 center and an AP preseason All-America pick, is ranked seventh nationally in blocks with 3.6 per game and 26th with 10.1 rebounds. Aldrich is scoring 10.6 points per outing while connecting on 52 percent of his field goal attempts.

Parakhouski continues to lead the nation in rebounding by pulling down 14.8 boards per game while scoring 22.3 points, 13th in Division I. The senior center piled up his eighth consecutive double-double in Radford's 61-57 win at Presbyterian on Saturday, scoring 13 points and grabbing 11 rebounds.

Sherron Collins, another AP preseason All-America selection, is averaging 14.3 points and 3.7 assists as the point guard for Kansas.

Radford takes a two-game winning streak into Wednesday's game, with Big South triumphs at Winthrop on Thursday (61-59, OT) and Presbyterian on Saturday. The Highlanders have benefitted from production out of their frontcourt starters over the last two games as Laz Trifunovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Joey-Lynch Flohr (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax) and #Phillip Martin# (Roanoke, Va./Roanoke Catholic), along with Parakhouski, scored in double figures against Presbyterian. Trifunovic, Lynch-Flohr and Parakhouski reached the 10-point plateau at Winthrop on Thursday night.

Defensively, Radford held both Winthrop (32.5) and Presbyterian (38.3) below 40 percent shooting from the field.

The Highlanders' meeting with Kansas on Wednesday night is only the second time Radford has faced a team from the Big XII Conference. Radford lost at Colorado, 74-58, on Dec. 23, 2004.

RADFORD vs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
For the first time in program history, the Highlanders will meet the poll's top-ranked team when they travel to Kansas. It's the second game this season against a top 10 team (Nov. 21 at No. 8 Duke – L, 68-104), and the fifth time in the last three seasons that Radford has met an AP top 10 team.