Game Preview // 12/11 K-State Begins Play in Paradise Jam Friday against EKU

GAME 3
KANSAS STATE (2-0) vs. EASTERN KENTUCKY (2-1)
Friday, November 16, 2018 >> 6:30 p.m., CT >> UVI Sports & Fitness Center (3,500) // St. Thomas USVI
19^th Annual U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam

TELEVISION
FloHoops.com
Apple TV 4 and Roku [FloSports App]

Trevor Williams (play-by-play)
Kevin Lehman (analyst)

RADIO
K-State Sports Network

Brian Smoller (play-by-play)
Ben Boyle (analyst)

Listen Online: TuneIn.com [free] // www.kstatesports.com/watch [free]
Satellite Radio: Sirius 135 / XM 199 / Internet 953

LIVE STATS
www.paradisejam.com/stats

TICKETS
UVI Sports & Fitness Ticket Office [cash only]
All-Tournament Pass: $150

COACHES
Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee '78)
Overall: 440-235/21^st season
At K-State: 127-80/7^th season
vs. Eastern Kentucky: 0-0

Eastern Kentucky: A.W. Hamilton (Marshall '05)
Overall: 2-1/1st Year
At EKU: 2-1/1st Year
vs. K-State: 0-0

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (2-0)
G: #3 Kamau Stokes
G: #5 Barry Brown, Jr.
G: #20 Xavier Sneed
F: #32 Dean Wade
F: #14 Makol Mawien

Eastern Kentucky (2-1)
G: #0 Dujuanta Weaver
G: #2 Jordan Oakley
G: #3 Peyton Broughton
G: #4 Kelvin Robinson
F: #10 Nick Mayo

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Tied 1-1
At Neutral Sites: EKU leads 1-0
Last Meeting: W, 87-59, 12/1/1972
Weber vs. Hamilton: First Meeting

OPENING TIP

No. 12/11 Kansas State (2-0) heads south for the U.S.?Virgin Islands Paradise Jam this week, as the Wildcats open the four-day tournament with a matchup against Ohio Valley Conference member Eastern?Kentucky (2-1) at 6:30 p.m., CT on Friday, Nov. 16 at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The 19th annual event is making a return to the U.S. Virgin Islands after being relocated to Lynchburg, Va., and Liberty University last November due to hurricane damage.
The winner of Friday's late game will receive an off-day on Saturday, Nov. 17 and return to the court at 6:30 p.m., CT on Sunday, Nov. 18 against the winner of the Northern Iowa (1-1) and Penn (3-0) game, while the losers will meet at 4 p.m., CT on?Saturday. The other side of the bracket includes Missouri (1-1), Old Dominion (1-1), Oregon?State (2-0) and Kennesaw State (1-1). Missouri plays Kennesaw State in the first game of the tournament on?Friday at noon CT on Friday, followed by the matchup between Oregon State and Old Dominion in game two at 2 p.m., CT.
The winner of each bracket will face off in the U.S. Virgin Island Championship game on Monday, Nov. 19 at 6:30 p.m., CT. There will be three consolation games that will precede the title contest at 12 p.m., CT (seventh-place game), 2 p.m., CT (fourth-place game) and 4:30 p.m., CT (third-place game), respectively.
This will mark the Wildcats' second appearance in the Paradise Jam and the first since the 2002 event. K-State lost back-to-back to BYU (64-73) and Toledo (50-58) before defeating Michigan, 82-71, in the consolation game.
Previous winners of the Paradise Jam include Maryland (2013), Seton Hall (2014), South Carolina (2015) and Creighton (2016) as well as Big 12 member Baylor (2007). Colorado won the latest title in 2017 with a 79-70 victory over Mercer in a field that included Drake, Drexel, Houston, host Liberty, Quinnipiac and Wake Forest.
K-State has a 15-8 (.652) record in regular-season tournaments under head coach Bruce Weber, advancing to the tournament finals on three occasions, including the 2012 NIT Season Tip-Off (losing to No. 4 Michigan, 71-57), 2015 CBE?Hall of Fame Classic (losing to No. 9 North Carolina, 80-70) and the 2016 Barclays Center Classic (losing to Maryland, 69-68). The team has also participated in the 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-Off (1-2 record), 2014 Maui Invitational (1-2 record) and 2017 Las Vegas Invitational (3-1).
K-State has not won an in-season tournament title since defeating Southern?Illinois, UTEP and Long Beach State to capture the 2011 Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The Wildcats also won tournament championships in 1990 (BMA?Holiday?Classic), 1993 (Hawai'i Nike Festival), 1994 (Capital City Classic), 1995 (Otis Spunkmeyer Classic) and 2006 (Las Vegas Holiday Classic). Overall, the school has a 123-78 (.612) all-time record in 75 in-season tournaments dating back to the program's first season in 1905, most of which came in the Big Six/Seven/Eight Holiday Tournament that ran in Kansas City from 1943 to 1978 and involved mostly members of the Big Six, Big Seven and Big Eight Conference teams.
K-State moved to 2-0 for the 15th time in the last 16 seasons on Monday and extended its non-conference winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum to 25 consecutive games with a 64-56 win over Denver, as senior Barry Brown, Jr., scored a game-high 25 points.

NOTES ON EASTERN KENTUCKY

Eastern Kentucky returns seven lettermen, including two starters (Nick Mayo and Jacquess Hobbs, from a squad that posted an 11-20 overall record and finished ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference with an 5-13 mark in 2017-18. The Colonels welcome a new head coach in 2018-19 in former N.C.?State assistant coach A.W. Hamilton as well as seven newcomers.
EKU was picked sixth (out of the 12-team league) in the OVC Coaches poll with 118 points with Belmont tabbed as the favorite with 227 points and eight first-place votes. Mayo was selected to the Preseason All-OVC?Team.
EKU is off a 2-1 start after knocking off NAIA foe Midway, 107-52, at home on Tuesday. The Colonels opened the year with a 105-77 loss to Marshall at home on Nov. 7 before earning an 81-78 win at Chattanooga on Nov. 10.
High-flying EKU is averaging 88.3 points on 40.8 percent shooting (93-of-228), including 27.1 percent (23-of-85) from 3-point range, to go with 47.3 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.0 blocks per game. The squad is shooting 66.7 percent (56-of-84) from the line. Foes are averaging 78.3 points on 43.3 percent shooting, including 36.1 percent from 3-point range.
One of the top big men, Mayo paces the Colonels in scoring at 28.0 points per game on 47.4 percent shooting, including 35 percent from 3-point range, to go with 12.0 rebounds per game. He is shooting 92 percent (23-of-25) from the free throw line. He erupted for 40 points on 12-of-23 shooting in the win at Chattanooga to go with 12 boards. Junior Lachlan Anderson also averages double figures at 10 points on 52.6 percent shooting, while six other players are averaging between 6.3 and 8.0 points per game.
A former player at both Wake Forest and Marshall, head coach A.W. Hamilton enters his first season at EKU?in 2018-19. He spent the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach at N.C.?State for head coach Kevin?Keatts after six years as the head coach at prep powerhouse Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he led the school to a 237-22 (.915) record and the 2016 National Prep Championship.

SERIES HISTORY

K-State and Eastern?Kentucky will meet for the third time in their histories after splitting the previous two meetings in 1945 and 1972. The Colonels won the first meeting, 54-47, at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium on?Dec. 29, 1945, while the Wildcats won the latest meeting, 87-59, at Ahearn Field House in Manhattan on Dec. 1, 1972.
K-State is 16-1 all-time against schools from the Ohio Valley Conference, including a 4-1 mark at neutral sites. The last meeting with a OVC school came in 89-71 win over SE Missouri State on?Dec. 16, 2017.

K-STATE/VIRGIN ISLANDS?CONNECTIONS

K-State has a unique connection to the Paradise Jam Tournament, as the President of the University of Virgin Islands in?St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., is led by K-State alum and 2018 K-State Sports Hall of Fame inductee David Hall, who played basketball for the Wildcats from 1969-72.
A three-year lettermen for head coaches Cotton?Fitzsimmons and Jack Hartman, Hall was part of two Big Eight Championships (1970, 1972). He still ranks among several career categories, including third in rebounds (827), fourth in double-doubles (30) and double-digit rebounding games (36) and sixth in rebounding averages (10.1 rpg.). He is one of seven Wildcat 1,000-point scorers to shoot 50 percent or better from the field and one of the few to average a double-double (12.3 ppg., 10.1 rpg.) for an entire career.

LAST TIME OUT: K-STATE 64, DENVER 56

Senior Barry Brown, Jr., scored a game-high 25 points, including 15 in the second half, while fellow senior Dean?Wade collected his sixth career double-double with a career-best 16 rebounds, as No. 12/11 Kansas State survived a test from a pesky?Denver squad, 64-56, on Monday night.
K-State once again had to rely on its defense in the victory, as the Wildcats struggled offensively, connecting on 38.3 percent (23-of-60) of their field goals, including just 22.2 percent (6-of-27) from 3-point range and hitting on just 12 of 27 free throw attempts (44.4 percent).
The Wildcats held the Pioneers to just 36.5 percent (19-of-52) shooting, including 24.1 percent (7-of-29) from long range, while scoring 23 points off 17 turnovers. It marked the second consecutive game that the squad has scored 20 or more points off opponent mistakes. The team has now held 71 opponents to 60 points or less under head coach Bruce Weber.
The 25-point performance marked the 16th career 20-point game for Brown, who gave K-State the lead for good with a personal 8-0 run midway through the second half. He was joined in double figures by Wade (12) and junior Xavier Sneed, who chipped in 12 points in his debut after missing the opener with Kennesaw State due to injury.
Wade, who struggled offensively in the game on 5-of-10 shooting, made his impact with his rebounding, corralling a career-best 16, including 12 on the defensive end. The 16 boards were the most by a Wildcat since Jordan Henriquez grabbed 17 against Syracuse in the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
K-State is now 106-28 under head coach?Bruce Weber when holding an opponent to 69 points or less. The team is now 64-7 under Weber when holding an opponent to 60 points or less.
K-State is now 5-0 all-time against Denver in the first meeting between the schools since 2004. The Wildcats are 32-2 all-time against teams from the Summit League.
With the win, K-State ran its non-conference winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum to 25 consecutive games. The Wildcats have now opened the year at 2-0 15 times in the last 16 seasons, including 6 of 7 years under Weber.

NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS

K-State has a 100-6 (.942) record at home venues (includes home games played at Bramlage Coliseum, INTRUST?Bank Arena in Wichita and the Sprint Center in Kansas City) in non-conference play dating back to the 2006-07 season, including a 92-5 (.947) mark at Bramlage Coliseum
The Wildcats have won 87 of their last 91 non-conference home games, including a 25-game winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum. The last home non-conference loss came against Georgia, 50-46, on Dec. 31, 2014.
K-State has posted a 132-33 (.798) record in non-conference play since the 2006-07 season, which includes an 11-2 (.846) mark in 2017-18. The team has posted double-digit non-conference wins in 11 of the last 12 years, averaging 10.8 non-conference wins in that span, and went a program-best 13-1 in non-conference play during the 2009-10 season.
Since going 7-6 in non-conference in 2014-15, which included back-to-back losses to Texas Southern and Georgia, the Wildcats has won double-digit non-conference games each of the past three seasons and is 35-6 (.850) in non-conference play since the start of 2015-16 season. It is during this span that the school has won 25 consecutive games at Bramlage Coliseum.

K-STATE HAS HAD SUCCESS IN IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS

K-State has registered a 123-78 (.612) all-time record in regular-season tournament play, which encompasses 75 tournaments dating back to school's first in-season tournament (Glasco Tournament) in 1905. The Wildcats have played in an in-season tournament every year since 2006-07.
Many of these tournament appearances came in the Big Six/Seven/Eight Holiday Tournament, which ran from 1943 to 1978 at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium and Kemper Arena (Hy-Vee Arena). The Wildcats posted a 68-34 (.667) all-time mark in the Big Six/Seven/Eight Tournament, winning titles in 1947, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1963.
K-State has a 55-44 (.556) record in other regular season tournaments in its history, winning six tournament titles, including the Kansas Tournament in Lawrence in 1959, the BMA Holiday Classic in Kansas City in 1990, the Hawai'i Nike Festival in Honolulu in 1993, the Capital City Classic in Tallahassee in 1994, the Otis Spunkmeyer Classic in Oakland in 1995 and the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu in 2011.
K-State has a 15-8 (.652) record in regular-season tournaments under head coach Bruce Weber, advancing to the tournament finals three times, including the 2012 NIT Season Tip-Off, 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic and the 2016 Barclays Center Classic. In his career, Weber's teams have won five in-season tournament titles, including the 2004 Las Vegas Invitational (Illinois), 2005 and 2008 South?Padre Island Invitational (Illinois), 2006 Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge (Illinois) and 2011 Cancun Challenge (Illinois).

REGULAR?SEASON?TOURNAMENTS UNDER?BRUCE?WEBER

2012 NIT?Season Tip-Off (New York, N.Y.)

def.?Delaware, 66-63; lost to No. 4 Michigan, 71-57

2013 Puerto Rico Tio-Off (San Juan, P.R.)

lost to Charlotte, 68-61; lost to Georgetown, 90-63; def. LBSU, 52-38

2014 Maui Invitational (Maui, Hawai'i)

def. Purdue, 88-79; lost to No. 3 Arizona, 72-68; lost to Pittsburgh, 70-47

2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic (Kansas City, Mo.)

def. Missouri, 66-42; lost to No. 9 North Carolina, 80-70

2016 Barclays Center Classic (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

def. Boston College, 72-54; lost to Maryland, 69-68

2017 Las Vegas Invitational (Las Vegas, Nev.)

lost to Arizona State, 92-90; def. George Washington, 67-59

'CATS HAVE BEEN STELLAR ON DEFENSE UNDER WEBER

K-State has put up some impressive defensive numbers under head coach Bruce Weber, leading the Big 12 in scoring defense twice in the last 6 years (60.4 ppg., in 2012-13 and 65.4 ppg., in 2013-14). Last season, the Wildcats held opponents to 67 points on 42.5 percent shooting.
Following their first two games against Kennesaw State and Denver of the season, the Wildcats have now held 71 opponents to 60 points or less in Weber's tenure, boasting a 64-7 mark (losses to Kansas in 2012, Northern Colorado and Kentucky in 2013, Texas Southern and Georgia in 2014, Texas and Oklahoma State in 2016 and West Virginia in 2017).
The 41 points allowed to Kennesaw State in the opener were the fewest-ever in an opener at Bramlage Coliseum and the fewest in any home opener since holding Northern Iowa to 38 points on?Dec. 1, 1979. The Owls' 14 points second-half points were the fewest in any half since allowing 14 to Missouri in the first half of a 66-42 win on Nov. 23, 2015.
K-State has a 106-28 (.788) record under Weber when holding a foe to 69 points or less and a 21-52 (.288) when allowing 70 or more points.
K-State has scored more than 3,000 points (3,120) off turnovers during Weber's tenure, average of 15.1 points per game. In 2017-18, the Wildcats averaged 17.3 points per game off turnovers, including 15.9 points per game in Big 12 play, and outscored opponents, 639-423. The team has scored at least 20 points off of opponent turnovers in 13 games with a school-record 38 vs. Northern Arizona on Nov. 20 and 36 vs. USC?Upstate on Dec. 5, 2017.
With 20 vs. Kennesaw State and 23 vs. Denver, the Wildcats have totaled at least 20 points off of opponent turnovers in 36 games under Weber.
A?year ago, K-State ranked eighth nationally in total steals (294) and 18th in steals per game (7.9), while the school was one of just 5 nationally (Georgia State, Nicholls State, Purdue and Stephen F. Austin) with three players (Barry Brown, Jr., Dean Wade and Xavier Sneed) with 40 or more steals.

A LOOK AT THE 25 STRAIGHT NON-CONFERENCE WINS AT BRAMLAGE COLISEUM

A closer look at K-State's current 25-game non-conference winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum, which dates to the start of the 2015-16 season. During this span, the Wildcats have averaged 75.6 points per game, while holding their opponents to 56.8 points and winning by nearly 19 points per game.

11/13/15 -- Maryland-Eastern Shore, 80-53
11/16/15 -- Columbia, 81-71
11/20/15 -- South Dakota, 93-72
11/29/15 -- South Carolina State, 68-66
12/9/15 -- Coppin State, 83-58
12/22/16 -- North Dakota, 63-49
12/29/16 -- Saint Louis, 75-47
1/30/16 -- Ole Miss, 69-64 (Big 12/SEC Challenge)
11/11/16 -- Western Illinois, 82-55
11/15/16 -- Omaha, 81-68
11/20/16 -- Hampton, 89-67
11/22/16 -- Robert Morris, 61-40
11/30/16 -- Green Bay, 80-61
12/6/16 -- Prairie View A&M, 74-55
12/21/16 -- Gardner-Webb, 67-54
11/10/17 -- American, 83-45
11/14/17 -- UMKC, 72-51
11/17/17 -- UC Irvine, 71-49
11/20/17 -- Northern Arizona, 80-58
11/29/17 -- Oral Roberts, 77-68
12/5/17 -- USC?Upstate, 86-49
12/16/17 -- SE?Missouri State, 89-71
1/27/18 -- Georgia, 56-51 (Big 12/SEC Challenge)
11/9/18 – Kennesaw State, 56-41
11/12/18 – Denver, 64-56

HISTORY AT BRAMLAGE COLISEUM

K-State has posted a 368-116 (.760) record at Bramlage Coliseum since its opening during the 1988-89 season. The 368 wins are the second-most at a home venue, trailing the 378 wins at Ahearn Field House (1950-88).
K-State has registered a 167-36 (.822) record at home over the past 13 seasons, including a 72-31 (.699) mark in Big 12 play. The 167 wins rank fourth among all Big 12 schools in that span, while the 72 league victories at home are only surpassed by Kansas and Texas. In all, the program has earned double-digit victories in 25 of its 30 seasons in the arena, including a current streak of 17 straight seasons.
K-State has a 228-59 (.794) record at home, including a 134-10 (.930) mark in non-conference action, since the 2001-02 season for an average of just over 13 home wins (13.3) per season in that span.
Head coach Bruce Weber has tallied an 83-20 (.804) 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 20 losses (17 of which have come in Big 12 play) have come by a grand total of 140 points or just 7.0 points per game.

MORE ABOUT K-STATE

The Wildcats return 10 lettermen, including six players (Barry Brown, Jr., Cartier Diarra, Makol Mawien, Xavier Sneed, Kamau Stokes and Dean Wade) that combined to start all 37 games a season ago, for a team that posted a 25-12 overall record (10-8 in Big 12 play) and advanced to the Elite Eight for the 12th time in school history and the first time since 2010. It marked just the sixth 25-win campaign in school history, including the second under head coach Bruce Weber, while the school advanced to the NCAA?Tournament for the fourth time in six seasons and 30th time overall.
K-State returns 185 combined starts from 2017-18, which is the most of any Division I team in the country, and ahead of other schools which return all of its starts, including George Mason (165), Iowa (165), Lipscomb (165) and North Florida (165).
K-State returns 93.2 percent (2,452 of 2,630 points) of its offense from 2017-18, which ranks 11th among Division I teams (trailing George Mason, Harvard, Wofford, Washington, Brown, Iowa, Wisconsin, UC Irvine, Syracuse and St.?Francis). The Wildcats also returns more than 90 percent of their field goals made (869/92.7%), 3-point field goals made (232/91.3%), free throws made (482/96%), assists (476/93.3%) and steals (266/90.5%) as well as 80 or better percent of their minutes (6,558/85%), rebounds (905/80%) and blocks (98/89%).
K-State returns seven of its top-8 scorers from last season, including three with double-digit averages [Wade (16.2 ppg.), Brown (15.9 ppg.) and Sneed (11.1 ppg.). Other returners include Kamau Stokes (9.0 ppg.), Cartier Diarra (7.1 ppg.), Makol Mawien (6.8 ppg.) and Mike McGuirl (3.3 ppg.). The Wildcats return their individual leader in scoring (Wade), rebounding (Wade), assists (Brown), steals (Brown) and blocks (Mawien).

'CATS EARN PRESEASON RANKINGS

K-State will open the 2018-19 season in the Top 15 in both major polls, as the Wildcats earned a No. 11 ranking in the preseason USA Today Coaches poll to go with a No. 12 ranking in the preseason Associated Press poll.
It marks the first time that K-State has started with preseason rankings in both major polls since the 2010-11 campaign when the school opened at No. 3 in both the AP and USA Today Coaches polls.
K-State appeared in the Preseason AP poll for the 17th time in school history, while it was the highest preseason ranking since starting the 2010-11 campaign at No. 3. It was also the 12th time debuting in the AP Top 15 (1951-52, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1961-62, 1964-65, 1965-66, 1975-76 and 2010-11).
The Wildcats have received several preseason rankings, including No. 11 by NBCSports.com, Yahoo! Sports, Street & Smith's, Lindy's and Athlon, No. 12 by ESPN.com, CBSSports.com, USA Today, Stadium, No. 13 by The Athletic, Blue Ribbon Yearbook and No. 14 by SI.com.
K-State was one of four Big 12 teams to place in both Top 25 polls, as Kansas was the unanimous No. 1 team. West Virginia was No. 13 in both polls, while TCU was ranked No. 20 (Coaches) and No. 21 (AP), respectively.

'CATS PICKED SECOND IN BIG 12 PLAY; WADE NAMED PRESEASON POY

K-State was picked to finish second by the league coaches in the annual Big 12 Preseason poll released on Oct. 19, as the Wildcats received 72 points and two first-place votes. Kansas was selected first for the eighth consecutive season, while West Virginia, TCU and Texas rounded out the Top 5.
The second-place selection was the second-highest by a K-State team in the history of the poll, following the 2010-11 team which was picked to finish first with 119 points. In fact, the Wildcats have been picked to finish fifth or better on just six other occasions in the poll, including fourth in 2007-08, 2009-10 and 2014-15 and fifth in 2006-07, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Senior Dean Wade became just the second Wildcat to ever be selected the Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year by the league coaches, while Wade and Barry Brown, Jr., were both named to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team. The duo was joined on the team by Kansas' Dedric Lawson, Iowa State's Lindell Wigginton and West Virginia's Sagaba Konate.
Wade's selection marked the second time that a K-State player has been named the preseason Player of the Year and the first since Jacob Pullen in 2010-11. It also was just the second time that two Wildcats appeared on the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, following Pullen and Curtis Kelly in 2010-11. Wade and Brown are just the sixth and seventh players in school history to earn recognition to the Preseason All-Big 12 (since 1996-97), following Manny Dies in 1998-99, Kelly and Pullen in 2010-11, Rodney McGruder in 2012-13 and Marcus Foster in 2014-15.

ATTEMPTING TO BECOME FIRST TRIO TO SCORE A 1,000 POINTS

Senior Kamau Stokes needs 113 points to become the 30th player in school history to post 1,000 in a career and join fellow seniors Barry Brown, Jr., and Dean Wade in achieving the milestone. If Stokes is able to achieve the mark, the trio would become the first senior class in school history to each top 1,000 career point in a career.
Brown (1,323 points) and Wade (1,214 points) each eclipsed the mark as juniors and currently rank 11th and 17th, respectively, on the all-time scoring list. Brown needs just four points to crack the school's Top 10, while Wade needs 113 to join the Top 10.
Stokes already ranks in the career Top 10 for both 3-point field goals made (141/10th) and attempted (417/9th), while he is one of just eight players in school history with 300 or more assists in a career. His current total of 313 assists ranks eighth on the all-time list.

BROWN CLOSING IN ON STEALS MARK

Senior Barry Brown, Jr. has a chance to become the school's all-time steals leader, as he trails career leader Jacob Pullen (210, 2007-11) by a mere 15 steals. Brown has 195 career steals in 107 games played, which ties for second on the career per game (1.80) list. He set the school single-season mark with 82 as a sophomore in 2016-17, while his 67 a season ago tied Pullen for the second-most on the single season list.
Brown also ranks among the leaders in games played, as his current streak of 107 consecutive games played ranks eighth in school history, while his 85 consecutive starts ranks fifth. With 107 career games played, he has a chance to eclipse the school record of 135 set by Jacob Pullen (2007-11) and Rodney McGruder (2009-13).

DON'T?FORGET?SNEED

With all the attention paid to the three seniors, the accomplishments of junior Xavier Sneed has somehow been overlooked. The St. Louis native enjoyed a career best year in 2017-18, averaging 11.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 31.4 minutes per game while starting all 37 games. He was named to the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament team after averaging 19 points and 7.5 rebounds in games against Kentucky and Loyola Chicago.

NEXT UP: NORTHERN IOWA (1-1) or PENN (3-0)

K-State will play either Northern Iowa (1-1) or Pennsylvania (3-0) in the second round of the Paradise Jam Tournament on either Saturday or Sunday depending on Friday's result. The Panthers have split games with Bemidji State and UT-Arlington to start the year, while the Quakers have won matchups with George Mason, Rice and Lafayette.

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