by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor -@TheRealMasonV The field of 68 teams is set and we are a day away from the first games being played in Dayton to kick off the 2023 NCAA Tournament. For the first time since 2019, K-State is one of the teams in the field. So time for more Monday Thoughts, all featuring different notes and opinions on what we will see over the next month on the basketball court. 1. BIG 12 GETS RESPECT, BUT NOT LOVE FROM COMMITTEE The Big 12 was by far and away the best conference in college basketball this…
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by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse MANHATTAN, Kan. — Sitting alone, Jerome Tang’s mind drifted away from the Big Ten Tournament Championship game between Purdue and Penn State on his television set. For a moment, Tang’s thoughts drifted towards how special a moment his program was less than an hour away from experiencing. On Sunday, Kansas State’s heard its name called on Selection Sunday for the first time since 2019. The Wildcats are a No. 3 seed in the East region and are playing No. 14 seed Montana State in the Round of 64 on Friday night in Greensboro, NC. “I told…
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by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse For the first time since the 2018-19 season, Kansas State is playing in the NCAA Tournament. On Sunday, the tournament selection committee announced that Kansas State would play Montana St in Greensboro, NC., on Friday. The Wildcats earned a No. 3 seed after ending the regular season with a 23-9 overall record, including an 11-7 record in Big 12 play. Kansas State enters the NCAA Tournament having lost their last two games — at West Virginia to end the regular season and vs. TCU in the Big 12 Tournament. Montana St is 25-9…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV Thoughts from K-State’s 80-67 loss to TCU in the Big 12 Championship Quarterfinals on Thursday night from managing editor Mason Voth. WARTS RETURN FOR K-STATE TCU routed K-State in the first meeting this season in Fort Worth and a lot of that was credited to the opportunities that K-State gave them. In Fort Worth, K-State turned the ball over 20 times to TCU’s 10. On Thursday evening in T-Mobile Center, the Wildcats gave the ball away 20 times as well, while TCU only had 9 giveaways. In addition to the…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV Jerome Tang, Markquis Nowell, Desi Sills and Keyontae Johnson met with the media following the quarterfinal loss to TCU
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As a predominantly Kansas State favoring crowd departed the T-Mobile Center Thursday night, they did so after watching the warts of a 23-9 Wildcat squad made apparent once again. In the first game of Jerome Tang’s postseason career as a head coach, K-State followed a familiar game script to many of their previous losses. After jumping out to an 11-2 lead when junior forward David N’Guessan slammed down a pick-and-roll feed from senior guard Markquis Nowell, Kansas State’s typical recipe for failure began to take shape. TCU outscored KSU 35-21 over the final 15:48 of the half and…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse To see all EMAW Online stories and post and view premium message boards, sign up with promo code EMAW 30 for your first 30 days free of EMAW Online. Use this link to sign up today! On Thursday night, Kansas State commences the single-elimination portion of thier schedule in the Big 12 Tournament, and head coach Jerome Tang thinks that Thursday day vs. TCU is going to be the most challenging his team faces in the conferences tournament. The Horned Frogs aren’t the best team in the Big 12, that title likely belongs to Kansas,…
by Mason Voth, Alec Busse & Gabe Swartz – EMAW Online March is the month of predictions and the EMAW Online Staff decided to get prepared for a March full of inaccurate predictions by doing it a week earlier for the Big 12 Tournament. Below are the staff’s predictions on what to expect in Kansas City this week. TOURNAMENT CHAMPION Mason: Most of the time I have a feel or lean toward a specific team, but this season I really don’t. I don’t want to pick Kansas, but I don’t trust Texas to win in Kansas City and likely have to go through…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – First-year head coach Jerome Tang as well as seniors Keyontae Johnson and Markquis Nowell earned recognition on the AP All-Big 12 Teams announced on Tuesday (March 7). All three repeated their honors from the league coaches, as Tang was honored as the conference’s Coach of the Year, while Johnson was named the Newcomer of the Year and an All-Big 12 First Team selection, along with Nowell, in voting by media that regularly cover the Big 12. Johnson and Kansas’ Jalen Wilson, who repeated his Player of the Year honor from the league coaches, were both unanimous First Team selections, while Nowell, Baylor’s Adam…