The starting lineup in tonight’s game consisted of sophomore Clent Stewart, juniors Lance Harris, Cartier Martin and Akeem Wright as well as senior Dramane Diarra... Tonight’s starters have a combined 79 career starts, including 32 by Martin, 30 by Stewart, nine by Harris and seven by Diarra... Akeem Wright earned his first career start... Stewart has 30 consecutive starts dating back to last season’s opener with North Dakota State on Nov. 19, 2004.
Kansas State is now 78-24 all-time in season openers, including 64-9 mark when debuting in Manhattan... The Wildcats have won 11 of their last 14 season openers with all three losses coming on the road... The Wildcats are 5-1 under Jim Wooldridge in season openers.
Kansas State is now 6-0 against teams from the state of Georgia... It was the first ever meeting with Georgia Southern and first against a team from Georgia since 2004 (Savannah State)... The Wildcats also moved to 3-1 all-time against teams from the Southern Conference with the win.
With the win, head coach Jim Wooldridge now owns seventh-place all-time in career wins at Kansas State with 69... He entered the season tied with Dana Altman (68; 1990-94)... Wooldridge needs 12 more wins to surpass Lon Kruger (81; 1986-90) for sixth place... He also needs just two more wins to break 300 career wins as a head coach.
The 83 points in tonight’s game with Georgia Southern were the most ever in an opener under Jim Wooldridge and the most by a Wildcat team in an opener since the 1998-99 team also scored 83 in win over Saint Mary’s on Nov. 13, 1998... K-State moved to 12-5 when scoring 80 or more points under Jim Wooldridge.
K-State held Georgia Southern to just 58 points on 26.6 percent shooting... It was the fewest points since holding Nebraska to 53 in the home finale last season on March 5... It was the lowest field goal percentage by opponent since Texas Tech shot 26.2 percent on Jan. 11, 2003... The Wildcats are now 24-4 under Jim Wooldridge when holding an opponent under 60 points.
Kansas State shot 50 percent (26-of-52) from the floor, including 56.0 percent (14-of-25) in the first half... The Wildcats moved to 27-6 when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor under Jim Wooldridge... The team had 26 fast break points.
Kansas State converted 78.9 percent (30-of-38) of its free throws on the night... The 30 free throws were the most in game since the team totaled 39 against Baylor on Feb. 13, 1999... The 38 free throw attempts were also the most since posting 51 against Baylor on Feb. 13, 1999.
Kansas State extended its streak of making at least one three-point field goal to 254 consecutive games after converting on 1-of-9 field goals beyond the arc... The last game that a team did not make a three-point basket was on Dec. 23, 1996 against Ark.-Pine Bluff.
Junior Cartier Martin had a career night across the board for Kansas State... He set his career-high in points (24), rebounds (11), field goal attempts (15), free throws (eight), free throw attempts (nine) and assists (six)... It also marked the third time in his career he surpassed the 20-point barrier in points... It was also his second career double-double and first since the Missouri game on Jan. 15, 2005.
Sophomore Clent Stewart missed his career-high in points by one, totaling 14 in the game... Stewart did post his career-best in field goal attempts (nine), while he tied his career-high in rebounds (four) and field goals made (five)... He has now scored in double figures in two games in his career... He also posted five or more assists for the 10th time.
Junior Lance Harris scored 11 points to post double digit scoring for the 17th time in his career... It also marked the 11th time in the last 12 games he has scored 10 or more points.
Sophomore David Hoskins tallied double figure scoring in his first game as a Wildcat... He went perfect from the floor, going 3-of-3 in field goals and 5-of-5 in free throws.
Kansas State had 14 players see action tonight, including the first for six newcomers; Akeem Wright, Serge Afeli, David Hoskins, Mario Taybron, Deilvez Yearby and Darren Kent.
Kansas State had four players score their first career points, as Wildcats tonight including Serge Afeli, Akeem Wright, David Hoskins and Mario Taybron.
