Game Preview // K-State Returns Home to Host SE Missouri Saturday

GAME #11
KANSAS STATE (8-2) vs SE MISSOURI STATE (6-4)
Saturday, December 16, 2017 >> 7:10 p.m. CT >> Bramlage Coliseum (12,528) >> Manhattan, Kan.

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COACHES
Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee '78)
Overall: 421-225/20^th season
At K-State: 108-70/6^th season
vs. SE Missouri State: 5-1

SE Missouri State: Rick Ray (Grand View '94)
Career Record: 26-46/3^rd Year
Record at SEMO: 63-106/6^th Year
vs. Kansas State: 0-0

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (8-2)
G: #3 Kamau Stokes
G: #5 Barry Brown, Jr.
G: #20 Xavier Sneed
F: #32 Dean Wade
F: #14 Makol Mawien

SE Missouri State (6-4)
G: #2 Jonathan Dalton
G: #23 Daniel Simmons
G: #25 Ledarrius Brewer
G/F: #34 Denzel Mahoney
F: #4 Milos Vranes

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads 1-0
In Manhattan: K-State leads 1-0
Last Meeting: W, 88-68, 11/16/2008
Weber vs. Ray: 0-0

OPENING TIP

Kansas State (8-2) returns home to Bramlage Coliseum on?Saturday night, as the Wildcats play host to Ohio Valley Conference foe SE Missouri?State (6-4) at Bramlage Coliseum at 7 p.m CT. It will be the second game of a women's and men's basketball doubleheader, as the K-State women (6-2) play host to Little Rock at 2 p.m. CT. The men's contest will be the last of the 2017 calendar, as the team will play Washington State (6-3) at Spokane Arena in?Spokane, Wash., on Wednesday, Dec. 20 before the start of Big 12 play at Iowa State (7-2) on Friday, Dec. 29.
The athletic department will accept toy donations for Fort Riley's Operation Santa Claus at Saturday's game, along with the women's game on Dec. 21. In exchange for the toy donation, fans will be able to purchase a single-game ticket for just $5.
This will be just second meeting between K-State and SE Missouri?State on the hardwood and the first since the Wildcats earned an 88-68 victory over the Redhawks on Nov. 16, 2008. Overall, the school is 15-1 all-time against teams from the Ohio Valley Conference, including an 11-0 mark at home.
K-State saw its 23-game non-conference home winning streak end in Saturday's 61-54 loss to Tulsa in the Wichita Wildcat Classic at INTRUST Bank Arena, which was considered a home game. However, the Wildcats still enter Saturday's game against SE?Missouri State with a 21-game winning streak against non-conference opponents at Bramlage Coliseum, which dates back to the start of the 2015-16 season.
K-State has a 96-6 (.950) record at home venues in non-conference play since the 2006-07 season, including an 88-5 (.946) mark at Bramlage Coliseum, and has won 83 of its last 87 non-conference home games. This season, the Wildcats have a 6-0 record at Bramlage Coliseum (American, UMKC, UC?Irvine, Northern Arizona, Oral Roberts and USC?Upstate) with an average margin of victory of 24.8 points per game.
The Wildcats posted season-lows in 12 offensive categories in Saturday's loss to the Golden Hurricane, including points (54), field goals (18), 3-point field goals (4), field goal percentage (32.1) and 3-point field goal percentage (12.9). It was the fewest points since scoring 50 against No. 11 West Virginia in the semifinals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship on March 10, 2017, while it was the lowest field goal percentage since shooting 25 percent at Oklahoma on Feb. 25, 2017.
Sophomore Xavier Sneed led four Wildcats in double figures against Tulsa and became the first player in recorded history to pace the squad in five categories with 15 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block in 32 minutes. Sneed, who has scored in double figures in six games, has upped his scoring average from 7.1 points to 11.4 points per game while posting averages of 3.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.8 steals in 27.1 minutes per game.
K-State held Tulsa to over 18 points under its scoring average (79.2 ppg.) and nearly 7 percentage points under its season field goal percentage (47.1). The Wildcats rank in the Top 20 nationally in both scoring defense (61.1 ppg./13th) and field goal percentage defense (37.8/18th).

NOTES ON SE MISSOURI STATE

SE?Missouri State enters Saturday's contest with a 6-4 overall record and just like K-State has had the week off since a 75-69 victory at Southern Illinois on Dec. 9. The Redhawks have won four in a row, including road victories at North Carolina Central (86-77) and SIU to go with home wins over Hannibal-LaGrange (83-59) and UMKC (91-87). The school opened the year with just two wins in its first six games.
The Redhawks are averaging nearly 80 points per game (78.7) on 47.2 percent shooting, including 39.6 percent from 3-point range, with 35.0 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 2.6 blocks per game, while allowing opponents to average 74.7 points on 45.2 percent shooting, including 35.8 percent from long range. They are averaging 8.4 3-point field goals per game on 21.2 attempts per game with five players posting double-digit 3-point field goals. The team is shooting 73 percent from the line.
Sophomore Denzel Mahoney paces four players in double figures at 19.0 points per game on 52.5 percent shooting, including 47.1 percent from 3-point range, to go with 4.5 rebounds per game. He is also shooting 80 percent from the free throw line. Freshman Ledarrius Brewer is second in scoring at 12.9 points per game on 41.1 percent shooting to go with a team-high 21 3-point field goals, while senior Daniel Simmons averages 12.0 points to go with 3.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. Freshman Justin?Carpenter averages a team-best 6.0 rebounds to go with 10.6 points per game. Junior Jonathan Dalton paces the team in assists (5.6 apg.), steals (1.3 spg.) and minutes (30.5 mpg.) while shooting 50 percent from the field.
SE Missouri State is led by third-year head coach Rick Ray, who has a 26-46 (.361) record in his tenure. Overall, he has a 63-106 mark in his sixth season as a head coach, which includes stint at Mississippi State (2012-15). He previously served as an assistant at Indiana State (1997-2004), Northern Illinois (2004-06), Purdue (2006-09) and Clemson (2010-12). Ray's time at Indiana State overlaps Bruce Weber's time at Southern Illinois (1998-2003).

SERIES HISTORY

This will be just the second meeting between Kansas State and SE?Missouri State on the hardwood with the Wildcats posting an 88-68 win over the Redhawks on Nov. 16, 2008 at Bramlage Coliseum. Guard Fred Brown led four players in double figures with a game-high 21 points.
Head coach Bruce Weber is 5-1 all-time against SE Missouri State, winning 70-49 on Dec. 28, 1998, 62-51 on Jan. 2, 2000, 92-80 on Dec. 22, 2001, 85-69 on Dec. 7, 2002 and 89-64 on Dec. 28, 2005 to go with an 87-84 loss on the road on Dec. 5, 2000.
K-State is 15-1 all-time vs. the Ohio?Valley Conference, including an 11-0 mark at home. The team has played Austin Peay (1-0), Belmont (1-0), Eastern Illinois (2-0), Eastern Kentucky (1-1), Murray State (1-0), SIU-Edwardsville (3-0), SE Missouri?State (1-0), Tennessee State (3-0) and Tennessee Tech (2-0). The Wildcats have won their last 10 meetings with the last loss coming to Eastern Kentucky, 54-47, on Dec. 29, 1945 in Kansas City.

NON-CONFERENCE HISTORY

K-State has a 96-6 (.941) record at home venues (includes home games played at Bramlage Coliseum, INTRUST?Bank Arena and the Sprint Center) in non-conference game dating back to the 2006-07 season, including an 88-5 (.946) mark at Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats have won 83 of their last 87 non-conference home games, including their 21-game non-conference winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State went 8-0 in non-conference games played at home venues in 2016-17 (7-0 at Bramlage Coliseum and 1-0 at the Sprint Center) with an average margin of victory of 19.1 points per game. The last non-conference loss at Bramlage Coliseum came in a 50-46 loss to Georgia on Dec. 31, 2014.
Overall, the Wildcats went 11-2 in non-conference play in 2016-17, which included a pair of road victories at Saint Louis (84-53) and Colorado State (89-70). The two setbacks came to No. 23 Maryland (69-68) on Nov. 26, 2016 at the Barclays Center Classic in Brooklyn, N.Y., and at Tennessee (70-58) in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge on Jan. 28, 2017. The team has won double-digit non-conference games each of the past two seasons (23 total/23-5 record) since posting a 7-6 record in 2014-15.

HISTORY AT BRAMLAGE COLISEUM

K-State has posted a 358-113 (.758) all-time record at Bramlage Coliseum since its opening during the 1988-89 season. The 358 victories are the second-most at a home venue for the Wildcats, trailing the 378 wins at Ahearn Field House (1950-88).
K-State has collected a 157-33 (.825) record at home over the past 12 seasons, including a 66-28 (.702) mark in Big 12 play. The 157 wins rank fourth among Big 12 schools in that span, while the 66 league victories at home are only surpassed by Kansas and Texas. In all, the school has earned double-digit victories in 24 of its 29 seasons in the arena, including a current streak of 16 consecutive seasons.
The Wildcats have a 218-56 (.795) record at home, including a 130-10 (.928) mark in non-conference action, since the 2001-02 season for an average of just over 13 home wins (13.3) per season. Last season, the team went 11-5 at home, including 7-0 in non-conference play.
Head coach Bruce Weber has a 73-17 (.809) record at Bramlage Coliseum since taking over at K-State in 2012-13 with non-conference home losses to Northern Colorado (2013), Texas Southern (2014) and Georgia (2014). The 17 losses (14 of which have come in Big 12 play) have come by a grand total of 99 points or just 5.8 points per game. Among the 71 victories are 12 over ranked teams, including top-ranked Oklahoma in 2016.

LAST TIME OUT: TULSA 61, K-STATE 54

K-State saw its 23-game winning streak against non-conference opponents at home come to end on Saturday, as the Wildcats posted season-lows in a number of offensive categories in a 61-54 loss to Tulsa, who has now won 6 of the last 7 meetings in the series. The team, who did not make a field goal in the last five minutes, connected on a season-low 32.1 percent (18-of-56) from the field, including 12.9 percent (4-of-31) from 3-point range.
Sophomore Xavier Sneed became the first Wildcat in recorded history to lead the team in 5 categories with game-highs of 15 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block in 32 minutes of action. Juniors Dean?Wade (13), Kamau?Stokes (11) and Barry Brown (10) also all scored in double figures as the Wildcats lost for the first time in six tries this season when the trio all registers double figures.

HISTORY OF STRONG STARTS

K-State is looking to continue a history of strong starts to a season on Saturday, as the Wildcats have jumped out to an 8-2 record. The 8-2 mark is the second-best start under head coach Bruce Weber and ties the 2005-06, 2012-13 and 2015-16 squads for the second-best start in the last 15 seasons.
K-State's best start after 10 games has been a 9-1 mark, which has been done on five occasions, including 2004-05, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2016-17.
The Wildcats have started 2-0 (2014-15), 4-0 (2015-16), 5-0 (2016-17) and 4-0 (2017-18) in each of the last four seasons after dropping their opener to Northern Colorado in 2013. The 5-0 start last season was the best since the 2012-13 season. The squad has started 5-0 five times in the last 15 seasons, including 2004-05 (8-0), 2008-09 (5-0), 2011-12 (5-0), 2012-13 (5-0) and 2016-17 (5-0).
The best start in the last 15 seasons came in 2016-17 when K-State won each of its first five games en route to a 12-1 start (which included a 7-game winning streak). The best-ever start to a season came in 1918-19 when the squad opened 17-0 before losing their last two games to finish 17-2 and win the Missouri Valley Conference title under head coach Zora Clevenger for the second time in three seasons.
Other impressive starts to a season include 7-0 in 1915-16, 10-0 in 1947-48, 9-0 in 1957-58, 7-0 in 1961-62, 8-0 in 1979-80 and 9-0 in 1997-98.

DEFENSIVE PROWESS

K-State has been solid on the defensive end to start the season, allowing a Big 12-best 61.1 points while holding its opposition to 37.8 percent shooting (193-of-511), including 31.8 percent (70-of-220) from 3-point range. The team ranks second in the Big 12 in field goal percentage defense and turnover margin (+5.6), third in steals (8.5) and fifth in 3-point field goal percentage defense.
The Wildcats rank among the Top 50 in six defensive categories, including 13th in scoring defense, 14th in turnover margin and 18th in field goal percentage defense. The team is 51st in turnovers forced at 16.3 per game.
Only four times in the modern era (since 1953-54) has a K-State team allowed 60 points or less six times to the first 10 opponents, as the 2017-18 squad joins the 1981-82, 1984-85 and 2005-06 teams to accomplish the feat. If you remove the ASU and Vanderbilt games, the Wildcats are allowing just 55.0 points on 34.8 percent shooting, including 28.8 percent from 3-point range.
The Wildcats have held six of the 10 opponents to 45, 51, 49, 58, 59 and 49 points, respectively, as they have now held 64 opponents to 60 points or less under head coach Bruce Weber's direction with the squad boasting a 57-7 (.891) record in those contests. The squad has held 17 opponents to 50 points or less under Weber (16-1 record), which includes a Weber era-best 26 points allowed to Alabama-Huntsville on Nov. 13, 2012.
K-State has held all but one opponent (Vanderbilt) to below its scoring average and has held its opponents to an average of 12.7 points below its season scoring average. The Wildcats held UMKC (11/14)?to 32.5 points under its scoring average, while UC?Irvine (11/17) and USC?Upstate (12/5) were held to 27 and 26 points, respectively, below its average. Only four opponents (Arizona State, George Washington, Vanderbilt and Tulsa) have shot better than 40 percent from the field with the Colonials and Golden Hurricane barely eclipsing the mark at 40.7 and 40.4 percent from the field.
K-State has put up some impressive defensive numbers under Weber, leading the Big 12 in scoring defense twice in the past five seasons (60.4 ppg., in 2012-13 and 65.4 ppg., in 2013-14). Since his arrival in 2012-13, the Wildcats are allowing opponents just 64.5 points per game (11,482 points) on 42.4 percent shooting (3964-9343), including 31.8 percent (1021-3215) from 3-point range.
Under Weber's direction, K-State has a 92-26 (.780) record when holding an opponent to 69 points or less since 2012-13 and a 16-44 (.267) mark when allowing an opponent to score 70 or more points.

OFFENSE OFF TO A GOOD START

K-State is averaging 76.4 points on 47.7 percent shooting, including 35.5 percent from 3-point range, to go with a solid 75.8 percent clip from the free throw line through 10 games. The Wildcats have scored 80 or more points five times and have eclipsed the 75-point barrier five times in the last seven games. The 764 points are the most points through 10 games since scoring 767 (76.7 ppg.) in the first 10 games of the 2011-12 season.
The Wildcats scored a season-high 90 points vs. Arizona State (11/26) on 57.6 percent shooting, which tied for the fourth-most points ever scored in a loss and the most since a 112-95 loss at No. 4 Oklahoma on Feb. 13, 1988. The 84 points at Vanderbilt (12/3) were the most in a road game since scoring 96 at Oklahoma State on Jan. 18, 2017 and the most in a non-conference road game since also scoring 84 at Saint Louis on Dec. 3, 2016.
K-State has connected on better than 50 percent from the field in five games, including a season-best 58 percent (29-of-50) in the win at Vanderbilt (12/4). The team has hit on 50 percent or better in both halves in three games (Arizona State, Vanderbilt and USC?Upstate).

TAKING CARE OF THE BALL

K-State has solid taking care of the basketball this season, averaging a Big 12-low 10.7 turnovers per game. In contrast, the Wildcats have also forced their opponents into 16.3 turnovers per game, which ranks fourth in the league just behind West Virginia (20.6), Texas Tech (18.2) and Oklahoma State (16.8). The squad ranks 14th nationally and second in the Big 12 in turnover margin (+5.6), while they are 40th nationally in fewest turnovers.
K-State has posted 12 turnovers or less in eight of 10 games, including single-digit turnovers on four occasions (UC Irvine, George Washington, Oral Roberts, Vanderbilt). The team is averaging just 8.4 turnovers over the last five games (42).
The Wildcats are averaging 16.2 assists per game on 27.1 made field goals per game, which ranks just seventh in the Big 12. However, when comparing it to the low turnover average, the team ranks 14th nationally and second in the league in assist turnover ratio at 1.51. They have dished out 20 or more assists three times, including a season-best 22 against American (11/10) and Northern Arizona (11/20).

SUCCESS BEYOND THE ARC

K-State has been successful to start the season from 3-point range, averaging 8.1 treys per game on 35.5 percent shooting (81-of-228). Junior Kamau Stokes is one of five players to connect on at least eight 3-pointers this season, as he leads all players with 26 treys on 44.8 percent shooting (26-of-58) this season. Stokes hit on a career-high 7 3-point field goals against Arizona State (11/23), which tied for the fourth-most in school history.
Stokes has hit on at least two treys in seven games. Sophomore Xavier Sneed is second in 3-pointers with 15 on a 33.3 percent clip, while junior Barry Brown, Jr. (12), redshirt freshman Cartier Diarra (8) and junior Dean Wade (8) all have more than eight 3-point makes this season.
K-State has hit on six or more 3-pointers in seven of 10 games this season, including double-digits against American (12), Arizona State (15) and USC Upstate (12). The 15 makes against the Sun Devils tied for the second-most in school history and were the most since also converting on 15 3-pointers against Nebraska on Jan. 8, 2000. It was also the most-ever made away from home. Overall, the Wildcats hit on 46.9 percent from beyond the arc against ASU with the 32 attempts the third-most ever in a game and the most since attempting a school-record 37 at Texas on Feb. 12, 2005.

OFFENSIVE BALANCE CONTINUES

One of the hallmarks of the 2016-17 NCAA?Tournament team was its offensive balance, as four of five starters averaged in double figures led by Wesley Iwundu (13.0 ppg.), Kamau Stokes (11.7 ppg.), Barry Brown, Jr. (11.7 ppg.) and D.J. Johnson (11.3 ppg.). The last time K-State saw four players average in double digits was 2009-10, while you would have to go all the way back to 1980-81 to find four Wildcat starters in double figures.
That balance has continued to start the 2017-18 season, as four of the team's five starters (Stokes, Brown, Dean Wade and Xavier Sneed) are all currently averaging in double figures. Stokes (14.9 ppg.), Brown (14.3 ppg.) and Wade (13.0 ppg.) are all averaging at least 13 points per game through 10 games, as K-State joins Kansas as the only Big 12 schools to have at least three players averaging 13 points per game, while the Wildcats are one of just four Big 12 teams (along with Kansas, Texas and TCU) to have four starters averaging in double figures so far this season.
The trio of Brown, Stokes and Wade have all scored in double figures in 14 career games, including six of 10 this season. The Wildcats boast a 10-4 record in those games, including 5-1 this season. The three are averaging 42.2 points per game on 48 percent shooting, including 38.7 percent from 3.
At least three of the five starters have tallied double figures in eight of 10 games this season, including four in the opener against American (11/10), Northern Arizona (11/20) and Tulsa (12/9). In all, five players registered double figures as 10 posted at least one made field goal in the season-opening win. Wade led all scorers with 17 points on 6-of-7 field goals, while redshirt freshman Cartier Diarra (13 points), sophomore Makol Mawien (12), Brown (10) and Stokes (10) each tallied double digits. Sneed nearly recorded double figures, finishing with 8 points.
K-State saw four players scored in double figures in the win over UMKC (11/14), as Brown scored a game-high 14 points followed by Sneed's first double-digit outing of the year with 13 points to go with 11-point efforts from Wade and junior Mawdo Sallah. Three players registered double figures against UC?Irvine (11/17) led by Stokes' game-high 14 points, joining Sneed (12) and Diarra (10).
Just like the opener, four of the five starters tallied double figures in the win over Northern Arizona (11/20) with Brown recording his fifth career 20-point game on 9-of-13 field goals, while Stokes (16 points), Wade (15) and Sneed (12) also registered double-digit points.
K-State had multiple 20-point scorers for the first time this season against Arizona State (11/23), as Brown and Stokes combined for 50 of the team's 90 points... Brown had a career-high 27 points, while Stokes was one short of his career-high with 23 points on 7-of-10 shooting (all 3-pointers).
K-State again had multiple 20-point scorers in the win at Vanderbilt (12/3) to go with an 18-point effort by Brown, as the trio combined to score 59 of the 84 points on 58.8 percent shooting (20-of-24). Sneed posted a career-high 21 points, while Stokes earned his sixth career 20-point game.
In all, the Wildcats have seen seven players total 34 double-digit scoring games this season with 12 different players registering at least one made field goal. Stokes has posted double-figure points in nine of 10 games, while Brown has done it eight times and Wade seven times.
At least four Wildcats scored in double figures in 19 of 35 games in 2016-17, including at least three in 28 games. In all, nine players had at least one double-digit scoring game with six having at least 12 double-digit scoring games led by Iwundu's 26. The other four starters had at least 17 double-figure scoring games. In all, starters were responsible for 78 percent of the team's 2,523 points and 848 made field goals.

NIGHT TO REMEMBER

K-State enjoyed quite the memorable night on defensive end against Northern?Arizona (11/20), as the Wildcats tied the school record with 19 steals while forcing 31 total turnovers and enjoying a 38-15 edge in points off turnovers in the convincing 80-58 win.
The 19 steals tied the original school mark set against Tulane on Jan. 10, 1976 at Ahearn Field House. The 31 turnovers tied for the fifth-most by an opponent and were the most since also forcing 31 against Kentucky (at Orleans Arena) on Nov. 28, 2008. The 38 points off of turnovers were the fourth-most since the stat began being recorded in 2000-01 and the most since totaling 39 against Washington State on Dec. 5, 2009.
In all, five different Wildcats had at least two steals, including a career-best 6 by junior Barry?Brown, Jr., and 5 by junior Dean?Wade. The 6 steals by Brown tied nine other players for the eighth-most steals in a game. He now has 133 in his career, which ties him for third-place with Askia Jones (1989-94) on the all-time list. Junior Kamau Stokes also had 3 steals, while sophomore Xavier Sneed and freshman Cartier Diarra had two each.

SOLID DEBUTS FOR NEWCOMERS

Redshirt freshman Cartier Diarra and transfers Makol Mawien and Mawdo Sallah have each been impressive to start the season.
Diarra and Mawien each posted double figures in their debuts against American (11/10), as Diarra scored 13 points off the bench on 4-of-5 field goals, including all four 3-pointers to go with 4 assists, while Mawien nearly totaled a double-double with 12 points on 5-of-7 field goals and game-highs with 9 rebounds and 2 blocks.
It was Sallah's turn against UMKC (11/14), as he came off the bench to miss a double-double by one rebound with 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting with a game-high 9 rebounds.
Diarra turned in his second double-digit scoring games with 10 points against UC?Irvine (11/17).

ONE OF THE YOUNGEST TEAMS

K-State is one of 15 schools nationally (Auburn, American, Bowling Green, UC Irvine, The Citadel, Holy Cross, Kentucky, Louisiana Tech, Marquette, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Toledo and Wofford) to have one or fewer seniors on its roster in 2017-18, while the Wildcats' nine freshmen (true and redshirt) and sophomores ranks nine nationally and are only surpassed by the 12 at Auburn and Kentucky, 11 by UC Irvine, 10 each by American, The Citadel, Tennessee, Toledo and Wofford.

K-STATE WELCOMES SHAUN WILLIAMS

Head coach Bruce Weber announced the signing of Shaun Williams (St. Louis, Mo./Hazelwood Central) on the first day of the National Signing Period on Nov. 8.
A 6-foot-3, 170-pound guard, Williams led Hazelwood Central in 12 categories en route to helping the Hawks to a 17-11 record and a trip to the Class 5, District 3 Championship Game. He averaged a team-best 18.6 points on 47.4 percent shooting (155-of-237), including 35.2 percent (38-of-108) from 3-point range, to go with 3.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.6 steals per game. He connected on a team-best 83.8 percent (98-of-117) from the free throw line. He was a First Team Class 5 All-State selection by the Missouri Basketball?Coaches Association as a junior.

UP NEXT: VS. WASHINGTON STATE (6-3)

K-State plays its final non-conference game before the start of Big 12 play on Wednesday, Dec. 20, as the Wildcats travel to Spokane, Wash., to play Pac-12 foe Washington State (6-3) at 10 p.m. CT at Spokane Arena. The game will air nationally on ESPNU.

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