LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Darryn Peterson will not play for No. 21 Kansas against fifth-ranked UConn at Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday night, Jayhawks coach Bill Self said.

“He is very close,” Self said in a social media post. “He has worked his butt off, but he is still not 100 percent. He is day-to-day.”

The star freshman played the first two games of the season, a blowout of Green Bay and a loss at North Carolina, but this will be his seventh game missed with an injured hamstring. Peterson sat out a loss to Duke at Madison Square Garden in New York and three games last week at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.

The Jayhawks still managed to go 3-0 over power conference schools without Peterson.

Peterson was widely considered the nation’s No. 1 recruit coming out of high school, a

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