by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Ish Massoud appeared to be a program piece for Jerome Tang but entered the transfer portal after one season under Tang at K-State. Massoud’s decision to enter the transfer portal is potentially a surprise, depending on how you view it. Massoud was one of just two players to return to K-State after Bruce Weber stepped away from the program at the end of the 2021-22 season. But despite being one of just two returners, Massoud’s role was diminished at K-State in 2022-23, his second season as a Wildcat. In his first season with…
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by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV COLLIN KLEIN, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR (Quotes courtesy of K-State Athletics) On what he wants to see out of quarterback Will Howard during the spring… “Will does such a great job of mastering his craft. The game of football and the quarterback position, you could spend every minute, all day, every day watching tape, fundamental principles, drills, improvements and you’d still be busy. So, for him, just to continue to push the envelope of his own game, whether it’s footwork, progression discipline or defensive recognition. I think – not that he wasn’t great…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV K-State and Jerome Tang lost their first player to the transfer portal on Wednesday, forward Ish Massoud. Massoud played the last two seasons at K-State, with his first two coming at Wake Forest before committing to Bruce Weber in the 2021-2022 season. Massoud averaged 6.1 points per game in his two seasons in Manhattan and was a 37.5% three-point shooter. He did see a minutes reduction in the first year under Jerome Tang though, going from 24 minutes per contest to just 15. Massoud’s volume went down in 2023, but he…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV K-State football added its fourth commitment of the 2024 recruiting class on Sunday afternoon, and their first member of the defense with Castle Rock, CO native Jake Stonebraker. Other members of the class are Colorado QB Blake Barnett and offensive linemen Ryan Howard and Gus Hawkins. Stonebraker received his offer from K-State back in January, and visited in September for K-State’s loss to Tulane. https://twitter.com/jakestonebrake1/status/1640066131464695808?s=20 Stonebraker held offers from Colorado, UNLV and Central Michigan. He had other Power 5 interests from Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas and other schools in the midwest. Stonebraker stands at 6’1″ and 205…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse NEW YORK — K-State’s Final Four drought didn’t end on Saturday with Florida Atlantic securing a 79-76 win in the Elite Eight over the Wildcats to secure the Owls first FInal Four in school history. The Wildcats didn’t score for nearly the first 2:30 of the game until the team’s leading scorer, Keyontae Johnson , hit a turnaround jumper in the paint to make it a 3-2 game after Florida Atlantic hit a 3-pointer on the opening possession of the game. But Johnson wasn’t able to assert himself much in the…
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer Markquis Nowell: 6 stars Any time that you set an NCAA Tournament record you are getting a five-star rating. When you do it in a game of this magnitude in a matchup where both teams are playing at as close to their peak, you’re getting six stars. Nothing was beating what Nowell did on Thursday night, in a game where he had 20 points and the aforementioned record-breaking 19 assists. Nowell created, assisted or scored 69 of Kansas State’s 98 points in the overtime win. Every adjective in the book that remotely resembles…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse NEW YORK — It’s Wednesday night in New York city, the eve of the Sweet 16, which is to be played on Friday night at Madison Square Garden with No. 3 Kansas State and No. 7 Michigan State fighting for a spot in the Elite 8. K-State’s Ish Massoud and Bebe Iyiola leave their teammates at the hotel to go to a mosque where, together, they’ll pray for about 2.5 hours. Ramadan — the ninth month of the Islamic calendar is a month-long holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and…
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer NEW YORK — Those who follow college basketball from beginning to end, night-in and night-out have known about the Kansas State Wildcats. Picked to finish last in the Big 12 during the preseason, the NCAA Tournament is now a learning ground for the nation. But while third-seeded K-State has played each game of this tournament with the scripted “Wildcats” font across their white-jersey chests, first-year head coach Jerome Tang’s group have been anything but the favorite. The Wildcats were underdogs against Kentucky in the second round and were underdogs for most of the lead-up to Thursday’s game against Michigan…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Fast forward to about 12:23 to watch Jerome Tang, K-State player postgame press conference. Michigan State players and coach TOm Izzo speak shortly after.