Game Preview // 12/11 K-State Faces Penn in Paradise Jam Semifinals Sunday

GAME 4
KANSAS STATE (3-0) vs. PENN (4-0)
Sunday, November 18, 2018 >> 6:30 p.m., CT >> UVI Sports & Fitness Center (3,500) // St. Thomas USVI
19^th Annual U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam

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Kevin Lehman (analyst)

RADIO
K-State Sports Network

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

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LIVE STATS
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TICKETS
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All-Tournament Pass: $150

COACHES
Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee '78)
Overall: 441-235/21^st season
At K-State: 128-80/7^th season
vs. Penn: 0-0

Penn: Steve Donahue (Ursinus '84)
Overall: 252-255/18th Year
At Penn: 52-41/4th Year
vs. K-State: 0-0

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

Penn (4-0)
G: #2 Antonio Woods
G: #3 Jake Silpe
G: #12 Devon Goodman
F: #25 A.J. Brodeur
C: #0 Max Rothschild

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads 1-0
At Neutral Sites: K-State leads 1-0
Last Meeting: W, 69-62, 3/15/1975
Weber vs. Donahue: First Meeting

OPENING TIP

No. 12/11 Kansas State (3-0) continues play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Sunday, as the Wildcats face off against reigning Ivy League champion Penn (4-0) at 6:30 p.m., CT for the right to advance to the tournament's championship game on Monday.
The Wildcats and Quakers will face off in the tournament's second semifinal matchup on Sunday, as Oregon State (3-0) and Missouri (2-1) play in the first semifinal at 4:30 p.m., CT. The winners of the two semifinals will play in the championship game on Monday at 6:30 p.m., CT, while the losers will play in the third-place game on Monday at 4:30 p.m., CT.
The consolation bracket of the tournament begins on Saturday with Old Dominion (1-2) playing Kennesaw State (1-3) and Northern Iowa (1-2) playing Eastern Kentucky (2-2).
K-State advanced to the semifinals on Friday night with a 95-68 win over Eastern Kentucky, as the Wildcats connected on 55.2 percent (37-of-67) from the field, including 66 percent (33-of-50) from inside the 3-point arc. Junior Xavier Sneed paced five players in double figures with a game-high 16 points, while sophomore Cartier Diarra and senior Dean Wade added 14.
Penn advanced to the semifinals with a 78-71 win over Northern Iowa, as the Quakers connected on 50.9 percent from the field, including 69.6 percent in the second half. Junior Devon Goodman led four players in double figures with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting, including 5-of-8 from 3-point range.
In the other first-round games, Oregon State defeated Old Dominion, 61-56, and Missouri knocked off Kennesaw State, 55-52.
K-State is making its second appearance at the Paradise Jam, which 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 Wildcats went 1-2 in their previous trip to the Paradise Jam, losing to BYU (64-73) and Toledo (50-58) before defeating Michigan, 82-71, in the consolation… The 19^th annual event is held at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas.
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 16-8 (.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.

NOTES ON PENN

Penn returns eight lettermen, including four starters (Ray Betley, A.J. Brodeur, Max Rothschild, Antonio Woods) from a squad that posted a 24-9 overall record and tied for the Ivy League title with a 12-2 mark in 2017-18. The Quakers advanced to the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Kansas in the first round.
Penn was picked second in the Ivy League media poll with 122 points and five first-place votes, trailing only favorite Harvard, who garnered 137 points and 12 first-place votes. The Quakers return two All-Ivy League selection in Brodeur and Betley, who combined to average 27.4 points and 12.2 rebounds per game. Brodeur was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection.
The Quakers are off to their best start since the 1978-79 season at 4-0, knocking off George Mason (72-71), Rice (92-76), Lafayette (91-61) and Northern Iowa (78-71).
Penn is averaging 83.2 points on 53.4 percent shooting (124-of-232), including 41.7 percent (40-of-96) from 3-point range, to go with 30.0 rebounds, 16.3 assists, 9.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game. The squad is shooting 64.3 percent (45-of-70) from the line. Foes are averaging 69.8 points on 47.5 percent shooting, including 28.6 percent from 3-point range.
Three players are averaging in double figures for the Quakers in junior Devon Goodman (16.8 ppg.), Brodeur (15.8 ppg.) and senior Antonio Woods (11.3 ppg.). Four other players are averaging between 6.3 and 8.3 points per game, respectively. Goodman is connecting on 55.3 percent from the field, including 44.4 percent from 3-point range, while Brodeur is shooting 58.7 percent from the field to go with a team-best 6.0 rebounds per game.
Head coach Steve Donahue is in his 18^th year as a head coach, including his fourth at Penn. He has a 252-255 record as a head coach, including a 52-41 mark at the helm of the Quakers. He has also been head coach at Cornell (2000-10) and Boston College (2011-14). He led the Big Red of Cornell to three consecutive NCAA Tournament from 2008-10, including a run to the Sweet 16 in 2010.

SERIES HISTORY

K-State and Penn have met just once in their respective histories with the Wildcats earning a 69-62 win over the Quakers in the 1975 NCAA Tournament at the famed Palestra.
K-State is 45-17 all-time against schools from the Ivy League, including a 2-2 mark at neutral sites. The last meeting with an Ivy League school came in an 81-71 win over Columbia at home on Nov. 16, 2015.

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 letterman 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 95, EASTERN KENTUCKY 68

No. 12/11 Kansas State scorched the nets for 95 points on 55 percent shooting, as the Wildcats opened play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam with a 95-68 win over Eastern Kentucky on Friday night in front of 2,162 fans at the UVI Sports & Fitness Center.
After relying on its defense in the first two games, K-State showed its offensive firepower in the win over EKU (2-2), collecting its highest point total since also scoring 95 against Wake Forest on March 14, 2017 in the NCAA First Four in Dayton, Ohio. It was the most in a regular-season contest since scoring 96 at Oklahoma State on Jan. 18, 2017.
K-State has now scored 90 or more points 8 times under head coach Bruce Weber.
Overall, the Wildcats connected on 55.2 percent (37-of-67) of its field goals, including 66 percent (33-of-50) from inside the 3-point line.
The team scored 58 of their points in the second half on 59.5 percent shooting (22-of-37), which was the most by a Bruce Weber team and the most by the Wildcats since 2008. The 58 second-half points were the most since the Wildcats scored 59 against Gardner-Webb on Dec. 14, 2008.
K-State held a 50-30 advantage in points in the paint, which tied for the ninth-most point in the paint and were the most a Wildcat team since 2010 (most a Bruce Weber team).
K-State scored 24 points off of 17 EKU turnovers, posting three consecutive games of 20 or more points off of turnovers to start the season. The team also totaled at least 9 steals for the third straight game.
K-State also held advantages in fast-break points (17-2), second-chance points (16-7) and bench points (41-30). The Wildcats have now out-scored their opponents, 51-11, in fast-break points this season. The 41 bench points were the most since scoring 42 from the bench at Baylor on Jan. 20, 2016.
K-State held a 47-26 advantage in rebounds, including 11 offensive rebounds. The Wildcats had more defensive rebounds (36) than the Colonels had total rebounds (26).
12 different Wildcats scored in the game, including 5 double-digit scorers. It marked the first time with 5 double-digit scorers since the Texas game on Feb. 7, 2018.
Junior Xavier Sneed led a balanced offense with a game-high 16 points on 6-of-11 field goals, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range, to go with 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals in 25 minutes. It marked the eighth time leading the team in scoring in his career and was his 37^th career double-digit scoring game.
Sophomore Cartier Diarra scored a season-high 14 points on 6-of-11 field goals to go with 4 assists, 3 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals in 25 minutes. He has now scored in double figures in 10 career games.
Senior Dean Wade scored 14 points on 6-of-9 field goals to go with 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal in 29 minutes. He has now scored in double figures in 65 career games.
Senior Barry Brown, Jr., scored 10 points on 2-of-7 field goals and 6-of-6 shooting from the free throw line to go with 6 rebounds in 21 minutes. He has now scored in double figures in 66 career games.
Senior Kamau Stokes scored 10 points on 3-of-6 field goals and 4-of-5 shooting from the free throw line to go with a game-high 5 assists in 28 minutes. He has now scored in double figures in 50 career games.
Junior Austin Trice registered double-digit rebounds for the second time in 3 games with a game-high 10 rebounds to go with 6 points on 3-of-3 shooting with 2 assists in 15 minutes.
Junior Pierson McAtee scored a career-best 4 points on 2-of-2 field goals in 4 minutes.
Freshman Shaun Neal-Williams scored his first career points as a Wildcat, posting 5 points on 2-of-6 shooting with 3 rebounds in 9 minutes.

K-STATE HAS HAD SUCCESS IN IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS

K-State has registered a 124-78 (.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 56-44 (.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 16-8 (.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 (16-8)
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

2018 Paradise Jam (St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.)

def. Eastern Kentucky, 95-68

'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 107-28 (.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.
The Wildcats have totaled at least 20 points off opponent turnovers in 37 games under Weber, including all 3 games this season (Kennesaw State (20), Denver (23) and EKU (24)
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.

Game Preview // 12/11 K-State Faces Penn in Paradise Jam Semifinals Sunday

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