The slam dunk is basketball’s highest percentage shot. Few perform it better than Udoka Azubuike. The Nigerian-born, 7-foot, 270-pound University of Kansas senior center has the highest shooting percentage in NCAA history.

Known as “Dok,” Azubuike had made 74.9 percent of his Jayhawks’ca- reers shots through games of Feb. 27.

That’s ahead of the all-time mark of 74.0 percent set by another dunk master, South Florida’s 7-foot-5 Tacko Fall (2015-19).

This season, Azubuike leads the NCAA at 74.4 percent, well ahead of runner-up Shamarkus Kennedy of McNeese State University in Louisiana at 68.3 percent.

The dunk is by far Azubuike’s preferred throwdowns attempt. He has 80 throwdowns this season and 261 in four seasons at the Big 12 Conference school. His single-game high of seven dunks came in 2017 against Stanford University.

On the flip side, Azubuike is as inefficient from the foul line as he efficient from the floor. His 45 percent free throw percentage is the worst on the team.

He has not attempted a 3-pointer in his career.

To qualify as NCAA all-time shooting statistics, a player must have a minimum of 400 attempts, with at least four “makes” per contest.

KU got a scare in its 62-58 win last Saturday over Kansas State University. Azubuike left the game with an ankle injury early in the game, but returned to the fray and scored six points (two dunks) and snared nine rebounds.

Dunks, per se, are not an official NCAA statistic, but many sports information directors keep track.

Azubuike, averaging 14 points and 11 rebounds with 74 blocked shots, has helped KU to the top shelf of college hoops.

Coach Bill Self’s Jayhawks (26-3) entered this week as the nation’s No. 1 rated team, both by Associated Press and NCAA NET power rankings.

Dunkology 101 ...

Let there be light: While there are no official records, many credit 7-foot Bob Kurkland for being the first to dunk in an actual game with Oklahoma A&M (now State) in the 1940s. HBCU historians claim black athletes were dunking earlier, minus the recognition.

Ban the jam: No dunking was al- lowed in college basketball from 1966 to 1974. A dunk resulted in a technical foul. This was widely recognized as the “Alcindor Rule,” named after Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who was a three-time NCAA Player of the Year with UCLA.

Among the great players who weren’t allowed to dunk were Bill Walton, David Thompson and Julius Erving.

House calls: Soon after reinstatement of the dunk, the Louisville Cardinals became the “Doctors of Dunk.” In winning the 1980 NCAA title, Louisville was led by Darrell Griffith, aka “Dr. Dunkenstein.”

Frat brothers: In the early 1980s, the Houston Cougars came to be known as “Phi Slama Jama.” Paced by Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston lost in the NCAA semifinals to the University of North Carolina in 1982 and in the final to North Carolina State University in 1983.

Grande finale: Houston got a taste of its own medicine in the 1983 final when North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles scored the championship- clinching basket on a two-hand slam as time expired. It set off a madcap celebration with delirious Wolfpack Coach Jim Valvano hugging everyone in sight.

Ham Slam: Perhaps the most famous dunk in Richmond history came March 18, 1996, during the NCAA Regional between Texas Tech and UNC. During the game’s first half,

Texas Tech’s Darwin Ham slammed with such vengeance that the backboard shattered and glass flew. The game was delayed a half hour. Texas Tech eventually won 92-73.

Making waves: In 2013, Florida Gulf Coast University earned the tags “Dunk City” and “Florida Dunk Coast” after stunning NCAA upset victories over Georgetown and San Diego State universities.

Leaping lady: In 1984, 6-foot-7 Georgean Wells of West Virginia University became the first woman to dunk in a NCAA game. The slam against the University of Charleston has come to be known as “The Dunk That Made History.”

African influence: While Azubuike may rule above the rim nowadays, he wasn’t the first from his continent to earn fame.

The late Manute Bol, who stood 7-foot-6, was born into the Dinka tribe in Sudan. While at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, he did plenty of dunking himself, thus his nickname, “The Dinka Dunker.”