WICHITA, Kan. — In the Seton Hall locker room, he was a rock star, surrounded by Kansas reporters. Jayhawks players and coach Bill Self talked about him in reverential terms.

There is no confusing the focus of top seeded Kansas in Saturday’s Midwest Region second-round meeting with No. 8 Seton Hall: Stop Angel Delgado. The Big East’s all-time leading rebounder certainly has the Big 12 champion’s attention.

“Delgado, he’s a different dude,” Self said. “We’ve played against some good dudes this year, but we haven’t played against anybody who is the combination of a force and a scorer and the rebounder he is, and as a passer.”

Unless injured, standout big man Udoka Azubuike can be more useful than he was Thursday on a bum knee, when he played just three minutes.

Kansas (28-7) doesn’t have a one-on-one answer for the 6-foot-10, 245-pound Delgado. Sophomore forward Mitch Lightfoot, at 6-8 and 210 pounds, is too small. Freshman Silvio De Sousa, a 6-9, 245-pounder, is likely too inexperienced and raw, having played in just 16 games in his young career.

“We’ll have our hands full with whoever’s guarding him,” Self said of the fun-loving and affable Delgado, who averaged 13.3 points and 11.6 rebounds per game while shooting 50.1 percent from the field this year.

Delgado, a native of the Dominican Republic, said he wasn’t buying the mismatch talk. He praised Kansas’ big men, and expects to be in for a battle, even if Azubuike isn’t on the floor much.

“They’re going to come really aggressive because I’m an aggressive player,” Delgado said.

When asked what stands out about Seton Hall (22-11), every Kansas player mentioned Delgado, the sport’s active leader in career rebounds (1,432) and double-doubles (71), first. Self raved about his passing as much as his rebounding and scoring prowess. Delgado averaged 2.7 assists per game, and had four in the win over North Carolina State. He’s a willing passer out of the post.

“He’s one of the best passing bigs we’ve gone against all year,” Self said. “And he’s a work horse. I mean he never quits trying to wedge or get position for rebounds, and he’s a professional rebounder. He knows how to read a ball coming off a rim. He knows how to wedge. He knows how to create space. And few, if any, that do it any better than him. So he’d pose a problem for anybody.”

But especially for Kansas, which is a mediocre-at-best rebounding team that will often play four guards together at the same time. Seton Hall should have an edge on the glass, not just with Delgado, but with fellow bruising forwards Ismael Sanogo and Michael Nzei. The Pirates’ rebounding margin of plus-4.4 was tied for 49th-best in the country, and their offensive rebounding percentage of 34.1 led the Big East.

“Angel gets a lot of attention because obviously he’s the best rebounder in college basketball,” Sanogo said. “So that actually makes it easier for us to come in and rebound. Because teams are sending three, four guys at him, and leave us open. We just pick up the scraps.”