Bahamian collegiate basketball player AJ Storr has had an up and down season for the University of Kansas Jayhawks.

In four games as a starter, he has averaged just 6.75 points per game on 34.6 shooting from the field. In nine games as a reserve player, he is averaging 7.89 points per game, but is shooting remarkably better at 44.62 percent from the field.

Storr, a junior guard, started three games back-to-back in late November and early December, and the Jayhawks lost two of those three games to slip out of the top 10 in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men’s basketball. Storr was in the starting lineup again in the Jayhawks last game of the year, on New Year’s Eve December 31, when they hosted the West Virginia University Mountaineers at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas. Storr and the Jayhawks lost again, falling 62-61 on a last second free shot from Mountaineers’ guard Javon Small.

Meanwhile, the Jayhawks have won eight of the nine games Storr has come off the bench.

On Sunday, Storr was in a reserve role again and it paid dividends for the Jayhawks as they benefitted from his instant offense off the bench and rolled to a 99-48 victory over the University of Central Florida (UCF) Knights at Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida.

The Jayhawks, now ranked at number 11 in the Associated Press (AP) Top 25 Rankings, now have a 10-3 win/loss record on the season. They have a win and a loss in the Big 12 Conference. The Knights have an identical record.

Storr was pivotal in the victory on Sunday, scoring 11 points on 5-for-8 shooting from the field. He hit one of his two three-point attempts, grabbed five rebounds and dished out two assists. For the season, Storr is averaging 7.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game while shooting 41.8 percent from the field and 34.4 percent from three-point range. His production level has dropped from last year when he averaged 16.8 points on 43.4 percent shooting from the field in his sophomore year for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers, but in his defense, he is playing significantly less minutes on a better team. Storr started 36 of 36 games for the Badgers last year. This season, the Jayhawks started their 2024-2025 campaign as the preseason number one team in the nation.

The Jayhawks never trailed in the wire-to-wire victory. The 51 points differentiation represented their second-largest margin of victory in program history.

Storr got on the scoreboard with 1:23 remaining in the first half, scoring on a dunk on an assist from Zeke Mayo. He scored his remaining nine points in the second half.

Senior center Hunter Dickinson led the Jayhawks with a game-high 27 points and pulled down nine rebounds. Rylan Griffen had 14 off the bench, Flory Bidunga scored 12, also off the bench, and Dajuan Harris Jr. and Storr contributed 11 apiece, giving them five players in double figures.

Keyshawn Hall was the only player in double figures for the Knights, scoring a dozen points.

The Jayhawks will return home and host the Arizona State University Sun Devils, another Big 12 Conference game, at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, on Wednesday. That game will be broadcasted on ESPN2. Following that game, the Jayhawks will go on the road to play the University of Cincinnati Bearcats at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday. That game will be played at 2 p.m.