Kansas State University Athletics
Sunday, November 18
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
6:30 p.m.
Kansas State University
4-0
64
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48
Penn
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Penn Quakers
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Late First Half Run Lifts 12/11 K-State Past Penn, 64-48
Nov 19, 2018 | Men's Basketball
Late First Half Run Lifts 12/11 K-State Past Penn, 64-48
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands – A 17-2 run to end the first half propelled No. 12/11 Kansas State past reigning Ivy League champion Penn, 64-48, on Sunday night in front of 2,460 fans at the UVI Sports & Fitness Center to advance to the championship game of the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam. Â
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K-State (4-0) will meet former conference rival Missouri (3-1), a 69-63 winner over Oregon State (3-1) in the first semifinal matchup, in the championship game at 6:30 p.m., CT on Monday night. It will be the 237th meeting between the two schools in a series that dates all the way back to 1907. The schools last met in 2015.
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Penn (4-1) will face Oregon State in the third-place game at 4 p.m., CT, also on Monday.
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Down 19-11 with 7:16 remaining in the first half, the Wildcats finally got their offense going, as seniors Dean Wade and Barry Brown, Jr., scored on back-to-back possessions that cut the deficit and helped ignite the 17-2 run. After a lay-up by Penn's Devon Goodman that extended the lead to 21-15 with 4:59 to play, K-State scored 13 consecutive points to end the last 4:37 of the half and take a 28-21 lead into break.
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The Quakers closed to within 46-40 on a jumper by junior A.J. Brodeur with 9:10 remaining, however, the Wildcats scored six straight points en route to ending the game on a 18-8 run.
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K-State connected on 42.1 percent (24-of-57) from the field, including 50 percent (14-of-28) in the second half, while Penn shot just 30.6 percent (15-of-49), including 28.6 percent (6-of-21) after halftime. The Wildcats scored 20 or more points off turnovers for the fourth consecutive game with 22 points on 19 Quaker turnovers.
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Senior Dean Wade paced three players in double figures with 17 points on 7-of-15 shooting to go with a game-tying 8 rebounds and 4 assists in 35 minutes, while fellow senior Kamau Stokes and junior Xavier Sneed added 16 and 11 points, respectively. Junior Makol Mawien chipped in 5 points, 8 rebounds and a career-best 4 blocks.
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Goodman led all scorers with 18 points, including 14 in the second half, while freshman Michael Wang added 12 points off the bench.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
Stokes opened the game with a 3-pointer from the top of the key to start the K-State scoring, but a span of just one made field goal in a stretch of 11 attempts kept the game in a back and forth pace.
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A Wade jumper gave the Wildcats a 10-9 lead at the 10:37 mark before the Quakers used a 10-1 run, including eight in a row after the Wade basket, to take a 19-11 advantage with 7:16 before half.
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Back-to-back baskets by Wade and Brown cut the deficit to 19-15 with 6:05 to play before a jumper Goodman extended the Penn lead to 21-15 at the 4:59 mark.
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On the next possession, a pair of free throws by Brown ignited a 13-0 run that gave K-State a 28-21 lead at halftime. Lay-ups by Brown and junior Austin Trice knotted the score at 21-all with 2:46 remaining before Wade scored 5 straight points, including an old-fashioned 3-point play, to extend the lead to 26-21 with 43 seconds. Sneed finished of the half with a tip-in off a Stokes miss just before the buzzer for the 28-21 lead.
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K-State connected on 34.5 percent (10-of-29) from the field, while Penn shot 32.1 percent (9-of-28). Wade led all scorers with 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting, while Brown added 7 points.
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Back-to-back 3-pointers from Goodman opened the second half to close the gap to 30-27 at the 18:15 mark before a quick 7-2 spurt gave the Wildcats with 37-29 advantage with 16:49 remaining. During the stretch, three different players (Brown, Stokes and Sneed) scored, including a 3-pointer by Stokes.
A technical foul was called on both teams at the 12:14 mark, which ignited a 5-0 run by Penn that cut the deficit to 42-36 with a 11:01 to play. A 4-0 spurt by K-State pushed the lead back to 46-36 with 9:58 remaining.
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After a layup by Goodman and a jumper by Brodeur cut the lead to 46-40 with 9:10 to play, the Wildcats ran off six straight points on two Sneed free throws and consecutive baskets by Wade to again push it to double digits at 52-40 at the media timeout with 5:11 remaining.
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The lead never dipped under 10 points the rest of the way, as K-State out-scored Penn, 18-8, to earn fourth consecutive win of the season. The Wildcats connected on 50 percent of their field goals in the second half, including a 13-point effort by Stokes, who finished 5-of-7 in the half.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
Senior Dean Wade led the Wildcats in three categories, as he scored a team-high 17 points on 7-of-15 shooting to go with a team-tying 8 rebounds and a game-high 4 assists in 35 minutes. With his 3-assist effort in Friday's win over Eastern Kentucky, he became the tallest player in school history to eclipse 200 career assists.
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STAT OF THE GAME
17-2 – Down 19-11 with 7:16 remaining the first half, Kansas State put together a 17-2 run, including 13 straight to end the half, to take a 28-21 lead into the break. The Wildcats never trailed the rest of the way.
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IN THEIR WORDS
K-State Head Coach Bruce Weber
On the performance…
"Another solid defense performance by our guys. We talked about (Nick) Mayo the other night that NBA scouts are talking about and tonight we have (AJ) Brodeur, who is really smart, knows angles; really knows how to play. We didn't go at him early. We took too many quick shots and didn't make him defend us. I thought in the second half, we really went at him and found some success."
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On Makol Mawien…
"I was really pleased with Mak (Mawien). He had a terrific stat line with 8 rebounds, 3 offensive, and 4 blocked shots and led us on the Play Hard Chart. He did a lot of things. He gave us a backstop."
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On different guys playing well…
"Friday night it was Cartier (Diarra) that played well. Tonight, it was Kam (Stokes). That's the good thing about our team, we have lots of different guys that can spark us at different times. That was a really good team defensive effort against a probable NCAA Tournament team. We held them to 30 percent shooting from the field and 20 percent from 3, so we did a lot of good things."
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BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
WHAT'S NEXT
K-State concludes play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Monday night, as the Wildcats play Missouri (3-1) in the championship game at 6:30 p.m., CT. All games of the Paradise Jam will be streamed live and on-demand on FloHoops.com, Apple TV 4 and Roku via the FloSports App. For more information on how to sign up for FloHoops, please visit their website at www.flohoops.com.
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K-State (4-0) will meet former conference rival Missouri (3-1), a 69-63 winner over Oregon State (3-1) in the first semifinal matchup, in the championship game at 6:30 p.m., CT on Monday night. It will be the 237th meeting between the two schools in a series that dates all the way back to 1907. The schools last met in 2015.
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Penn (4-1) will face Oregon State in the third-place game at 4 p.m., CT, also on Monday.
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Down 19-11 with 7:16 remaining in the first half, the Wildcats finally got their offense going, as seniors Dean Wade and Barry Brown, Jr., scored on back-to-back possessions that cut the deficit and helped ignite the 17-2 run. After a lay-up by Penn's Devon Goodman that extended the lead to 21-15 with 4:59 to play, K-State scored 13 consecutive points to end the last 4:37 of the half and take a 28-21 lead into break.
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The Quakers closed to within 46-40 on a jumper by junior A.J. Brodeur with 9:10 remaining, however, the Wildcats scored six straight points en route to ending the game on a 18-8 run.
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K-State connected on 42.1 percent (24-of-57) from the field, including 50 percent (14-of-28) in the second half, while Penn shot just 30.6 percent (15-of-49), including 28.6 percent (6-of-21) after halftime. The Wildcats scored 20 or more points off turnovers for the fourth consecutive game with 22 points on 19 Quaker turnovers.
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Senior Dean Wade paced three players in double figures with 17 points on 7-of-15 shooting to go with a game-tying 8 rebounds and 4 assists in 35 minutes, while fellow senior Kamau Stokes and junior Xavier Sneed added 16 and 11 points, respectively. Junior Makol Mawien chipped in 5 points, 8 rebounds and a career-best 4 blocks.
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Goodman led all scorers with 18 points, including 14 in the second half, while freshman Michael Wang added 12 points off the bench.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
Stokes opened the game with a 3-pointer from the top of the key to start the K-State scoring, but a span of just one made field goal in a stretch of 11 attempts kept the game in a back and forth pace.
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A Wade jumper gave the Wildcats a 10-9 lead at the 10:37 mark before the Quakers used a 10-1 run, including eight in a row after the Wade basket, to take a 19-11 advantage with 7:16 before half.
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Back-to-back baskets by Wade and Brown cut the deficit to 19-15 with 6:05 to play before a jumper Goodman extended the Penn lead to 21-15 at the 4:59 mark.
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On the next possession, a pair of free throws by Brown ignited a 13-0 run that gave K-State a 28-21 lead at halftime. Lay-ups by Brown and junior Austin Trice knotted the score at 21-all with 2:46 remaining before Wade scored 5 straight points, including an old-fashioned 3-point play, to extend the lead to 26-21 with 43 seconds. Sneed finished of the half with a tip-in off a Stokes miss just before the buzzer for the 28-21 lead.
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K-State connected on 34.5 percent (10-of-29) from the field, while Penn shot 32.1 percent (9-of-28). Wade led all scorers with 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting, while Brown added 7 points.
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Back-to-back 3-pointers from Goodman opened the second half to close the gap to 30-27 at the 18:15 mark before a quick 7-2 spurt gave the Wildcats with 37-29 advantage with 16:49 remaining. During the stretch, three different players (Brown, Stokes and Sneed) scored, including a 3-pointer by Stokes.
A technical foul was called on both teams at the 12:14 mark, which ignited a 5-0 run by Penn that cut the deficit to 42-36 with a 11:01 to play. A 4-0 spurt by K-State pushed the lead back to 46-36 with 9:58 remaining.
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After a layup by Goodman and a jumper by Brodeur cut the lead to 46-40 with 9:10 to play, the Wildcats ran off six straight points on two Sneed free throws and consecutive baskets by Wade to again push it to double digits at 52-40 at the media timeout with 5:11 remaining.
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The lead never dipped under 10 points the rest of the way, as K-State out-scored Penn, 18-8, to earn fourth consecutive win of the season. The Wildcats connected on 50 percent of their field goals in the second half, including a 13-point effort by Stokes, who finished 5-of-7 in the half.
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
Senior Dean Wade led the Wildcats in three categories, as he scored a team-high 17 points on 7-of-15 shooting to go with a team-tying 8 rebounds and a game-high 4 assists in 35 minutes. With his 3-assist effort in Friday's win over Eastern Kentucky, he became the tallest player in school history to eclipse 200 career assists.
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STAT OF THE GAME
17-2 – Down 19-11 with 7:16 remaining the first half, Kansas State put together a 17-2 run, including 13 straight to end the half, to take a 28-21 lead into the break. The Wildcats never trailed the rest of the way.
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IN THEIR WORDS
K-State Head Coach Bruce Weber
On the performance…
"Another solid defense performance by our guys. We talked about (Nick) Mayo the other night that NBA scouts are talking about and tonight we have (AJ) Brodeur, who is really smart, knows angles; really knows how to play. We didn't go at him early. We took too many quick shots and didn't make him defend us. I thought in the second half, we really went at him and found some success."
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On Makol Mawien…
"I was really pleased with Mak (Mawien). He had a terrific stat line with 8 rebounds, 3 offensive, and 4 blocked shots and led us on the Play Hard Chart. He did a lot of things. He gave us a backstop."
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On different guys playing well…
"Friday night it was Cartier (Diarra) that played well. Tonight, it was Kam (Stokes). That's the good thing about our team, we have lots of different guys that can spark us at different times. That was a really good team defensive effort against a probable NCAA Tournament team. We held them to 30 percent shooting from the field and 20 percent from 3, so we did a lot of good things."
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BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
- K-State is now 17-8 all-time in tournament play under head coach Bruce Weber… The Wildcats advance to their fourth regular-season tournament final under Weber, following the 2012 NIT Season Tip-Off, 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic and the 2016 Barclays Center Classic… The team has not won an in-season tournament title since the 2011 Diamond Head Classic.
- K-State is now 3-2 all-time at the Paradise Jam in its first visit to the tournament since 2002.
- This was the second meeting between K-State and Penn and the first since 1975… The Wildcats are now 2-0 all-time against the Quakers… K-State is now 4-0 vs. the Ivy League.
- K-State scored 64 points on 42.1 percent shooting (24-of-57), including 28.6 percent (2-of-7) from 3-point range, and connected on 73.7 percent (14-of-19) from the free throw line… It marked consecutive games connected on better than 70 percent from the free throw line.
- K-State held advantages in points in the paint (36-22) and bench points (23-14).
- K-State has now held 72 opponents to 60 points or less in the Weber era with the Wildcats boasting a 65-7 mark in those contests… Penn was held to 48 points 30.6 percent shooting (15-of-49).
- K-State is now 108-28 under Bruce Weber when holding an opponent to 69 points or less.
- K-State scored 22 points off of 19 Penn turnovers, posting four consecutive games of 20 or more points off of turnovers to start the season… The team also totaled at least 7 steals for the fourth straight game.
- Senior Dean Wade scored team-high 17 points on 7-of-15 field goals to go with team-tying 8 rebounds and a game-high 4 assists in 35 minutes… He has now scored in double figures in 66 career games… He has now led the team in scoring in 25 career games, in rebounding in 33 career games and in assists in 15 career games.
- Senior Kamau Stokes scored a season-high 16 points on 6-of-11 field goals, including 2-of-3 from 3-point range, and 2-of-2 from the free throw line, to go with 2 rebounds and 2 assists in 38 minutes… He has now scored in double figures in 51 career games.
- Junior Xavier Sneed scored in double figures in third straight game with 11 points to go with 2 rebounds, 2 assists and a season-high 4 steals in 28 games… He has now scored in double figures in 38 career games.
- Junior Makol Mawien registered an impressive line, posting 5 points on 2-of-5 shooting to go with 8 rebounds and a career-high 4 blocks in 29 minutes.
WHAT'S NEXT
K-State concludes play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Monday night, as the Wildcats play Missouri (3-1) in the championship game at 6:30 p.m., CT. All games of the Paradise Jam will be streamed live and on-demand on FloHoops.com, Apple TV 4 and Roku via the FloSports App. For more information on how to sign up for FloHoops, please visit their website at www.flohoops.com.
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Team Stats
PENN
KS
FG%
.306
.421
3FG%
.200
.286
FT%
.636
.737
RB
35
36
TO
19
11
STL
6
7
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
16
FGM
6
3FGM
2
FTM
2
Pts
11
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Players Mentioned
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