Kansas State University Athletics

Monday, December 2
Manhattan, Kan.
7 p.m.

Kansas State University

vs

Florida A&M

Antonio Gordon

Game Preview // K-State Returns Home to Face Florida A&M on Monday

Dec 01, 2019 | Men's Basketball

GAME 7
KANSAS STATE (4-2) vs. FLORIDA A&M (0-5)
Monday, December 2, 2019 >> 7:02 p.m. CT >> Bramlage Coliseum (12,528) >> Manhattan, Kan.
 
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COACHES
Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee '78)
Overall: 467-246/22nd season
At K-State: 154-91/8th season
vs. Florida A&M: 2-0 (2-0 at home)
 
Florida A&M: Robert McCullum (Birmingham Southern '76)
Overall: 105-170/10th season
At Florida A&M: 21-49/3rd season
vs. Kansas State: First meeting
 
PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (4-2)
G: #00 Mike McGuirl
G: #2 Cartier Diarra
G/F: #20 Xavier Sneed
F: #11 Antonio Murphy
F: #14 Makol Mawien
               
Florida A&M (0-5)
G: #2 Kamron Reaves
G: #3 M.J. Randolph
G: #4 Rod Melton, Jr.
F: #24 D.J. Jones
C: #34 Evins Desire
 
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads 3-0
Current Streak: K-State, 3
In Manhattan: K-State leads 2-0
At Bramlage Coliseum: K-State leads 2-0
Last Meeting: W, 96-57 [11/14/08 in Manhattan]
Weber vs. McCullum: First meeting
 
OPENING TIP
  • Kansas State (4-2) returns home to Bramlage Coliseum on Monday night, as the Wildcats begin a 3-game homestand with a visit from MEAC member Florida A&M (0-5) at 7 p.m., CT. The homestand includes visits from Marquette (5-2) in the highly anticipated Big 12/Big East battle on Saturday night and concludes with a visit from Alabama State (1-6) on Wednesday, Dec. 11. The Wildcats have won 11 straight games at Bramlage Coliseum in the month of December dating to the 2015-16 season.
  • K-State will look to get back on the winning track after a pair of disappointing losses to Pittsburgh (59-63) and Bradley (60-73) at the Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans Fort Myers Tipoff on Nov. 25 and 27. It marked the first time in more than 10 years that the Wildcats have gone winless in a regular-season tournament since losing back-to-back games to Kentucky and Iowa at the 2008 Las Vegas Invitational. The team struggled on both ends of the court, averaging just 59.5 points on 39.8 percent shooting, including 34.1 percent from 3-point range, and 42.3 percent from the free throw line, while allowing 68 points on 48.4 percent shooting, including 35.9 percent from long range. Bradley's 73 points and 13 made 3-pointers were the most since Iowa State totaled 78 points and 14 treys at Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 16, 2019.
  • The Wildcats have won 32 consecutive games against non-conference opponents at Bramlage Coliseum since the start of the 2015-16 season. Overall, the school has a 108-6 (.946) record at home venues in non-conference play since 2006-07, including 99-5 (.951) at Bramlage Coliseum, and has won 95 of its last 99 non-conference home games. The team is 4-2 in non-conference action in 2019-20, including 3-0 at home venues. The last non-conference home loss came to Tulsa, 61-54, on Dec. 9, 2017 in Wichita, while the last at Bramlage came to Georgia, 50-46, on?Dec. 31, 2014.
  • After looking to be a second-half team through the first 4 games, the Wildcats were the complete opposite in the two losses to Pittsburgh and Bradley. The team averaged 26 points in the second half of their two losses on 34.4 percent  (21-of-61) shooting, including 25 percent (6-of-24) from 3-point range, and 28.6 percent (4-of-14) from the free throw line compared to averaging 41.5 points after halftime in their first 4 games on 50 percent (55-of-110) shooting, including 39 percent (16-of-41) from long range, and 78.4 percent (40-of-51) from the line. The Wildcats were up 30-28 on the Panthers at the half and trailed the Braves just 38-37 at the break, but allowed their opponents to each score 35 points on combined 50 percent (23-of-46) shooting, including 40 percent (6-of-15) from 3-point range, after halftime.
  • With the offense still developing, K-State has relied on its defensive foundation to grind out wins over North?Dakota State, UNLV, Monmouth and Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the early going. The team is allowing 58.5 points on 40.3 percent shooting (122-of-303), including 29.9 percent (38-of-127) from 3-point range, while forcing 20.2 turnovers per game. The Wildcats rank first in the Big 12 in steals (10.2 spg.) and opponent turnovers (20.2) and third in scoring defense and 3-point field goal percentage defense. After holding NDSU to 54 points, UNLV?to 56, Monmouth to 54 and Arkansas-Pine Bluff to 51, the team has now held 91 opponents (including 22 of their last 39 foes) to 60 points or less in the Weber era (nearly 40 percent of the 245 opponents) with the Wildcats boasting an 83-8 (.912) mark in those contests.
 
NOTES ON FLORIDA A&M
  • Florida A&M enters Monday's game winless through its first five games, which includes 3 road losses at USC?(48-77), Hawai'i (52-65) and No. 13 Seton Hall (51-87) to go along with neutral site setbacks to Pacific (54-76) and South Dakota (82-85) as part of the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
  • The Rattlers continue their road trip at Tennessee on Wednesday before a trip to West Coast to face Portland (Dec. 16), Washington State (Dec. 19) and Seattle (Dec. 21) before wrapping non-conference play at Iowa State. The team's first official home game will be on Jan. 11 against Morgan State.
  • Florida A&M is averaging 57.4 points on 35.3 percent shooting, including 24.2 percent from 3-point range, with 33.8 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, while allowing 78 points on 46.6 percent shooting, including 33.3 percent from 3-point range. The team has connected on 67.2 percent from the free throw line.
  • A balanced team with eight of the nine players averaging better than 3.8 points per game led by senior Rod Melton, Jr. (11.2 ppg.) and sophomore M.J. Randolph (10.0 ppg.), who are both averaging in double figures. Melton leads the team in field goals made (18) and 3-point field goals (8), while shooting 29 percent from the field and 26.7 percent from 3-point range. Randolph leads the team in rebounding (6.2 rpg.) and steals (2.2 spg.), while shooting 45.7 percent. Junior Bryce Moragne is averaging 8.4 points on a team-best 56 percent shooting to go with 5.4 rebounds per game. Juniors Evins Desir and Kamron Reaves average 7.2 and 6.6 points per game.
  • Florida A&M returns 10 lettermen, including 3 starters, from a team that posted a 12-19 overall record, including a 9-7 mark in MEAC play, in head coach Robert McCullum's second season.
  • McCullum is his 10th season as a head coach, which includes stints at Western Michigan (2000-03) and South?Florida (2003-07). He is 105-170 in his head coaching career, including 21-49 in his third season at Florida A&M.    
 
K-STATE/FLORIDA A&M CONNECTIONS
  • Florida A&M head coach Robert McCullum spent one season at K-State as an assistant coach to Lon Kruger during the 1989-90 season. He helped the Wildcats to a 17-15 overall record, including a 7-7 mark in the Big Eight, and a fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA?Tournament.
  • McCullum would follow to Kruger to Florida the next season in 1991-92, spending the next 9 seasons on his coaching staffs with the Gators (1991-96) and Illinois (1996-2000) before becoming coach at Western Michigan.
  • McCullum was also part of the staff at Southern Illinois (1987-89) that recruited current K-State associate head coach Chris Lowery to SIU.    
 
SERIES HISTORY
  • K-State and Florida A&M will meet for the fourth time on Tuesday night with the Wildcats winning the previous 3 meetings, all at home venues, by an average of 37 points. The teams' first met at Bramlage Coliseum on Nov. 27, 1990, a 93-48 Wildcat win, followed by victories on Dec. 17, 2007 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City and at Bramlage on Nov. 14, 2008.
  • This will be the third meeting for head coach Bruce Weber against Florida A&M, but his first at K-State. His previous two wins came at Illinois, including a 91-60 win on Nov. 21, 2004 and an 84-63 win on Nov. 19, 2006.
  • K-State is 24-0 all-time against teams from the MEAC with all 24 wins coming at home. This will be the first meeting with a MEAC opponent since an 80-53 win over UMES on Nov. 13, 2015.
 
LAST TIME OUT: BRADLEY 73, K-STATE 60
  • Four Bradley players combined to knock down 13 3-point field goals, including 6 by senior Nate Kennell, as the Braves shot 50 percent from the field en route to a 73-60 win over K-State in the third-place game of the Fort Myers Tipoff on Nov. 27 at the Suncoast Credit Union Arena. 
  • Kennell led four Bradley players in double figures, as he scored a game-high 22 points on 7-of-11 field goals, including 6-of-8 from 3-point range, as the Braves connected on 56.5 percent (13-of-23) from long range. Fellow senior Darrell Brown, Jr., knocked down four triples and accounted for 16 points, while Kansas City, Mo., native and junior Elijah Childs and sophomore Ja'Shon Henry added 12 and 11 points, respectively. 
  • K-State, which never led in the second half, closed to within 55-49 with 7:50 to play on a layup by sophomore reserve Shaun Williams, but Bradley responded with 3-pointers on its next two possession to push the game into double figures with 5:52 to play. The Wildcats again got to within 63-56 on a layup by junior Cartier Diarra with 4:12 left, but the Braves connected on their 13th and final triple of the night to halt any further comeback. 
  • Senior Xavier Sneed was one of three players in double figures, as he led the way with a near double-double with 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting to go with team-high 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals in nearly 38 minutes. Junior Mike McGuirl and Williams each registered double-digits for the first time this year with 10 points each. Diarra tied career-highs for assists (8) and steals (5) to go with a season-high 6 rebounds and 6 points.
  • The teams combined for 11 lead changes in the first half before Bradley took the lead on a Kennell 3-pointer with 1:10 before halftime. K-State had an opportunity right before the half to regain the lead right before the half but fumbled a pass on a steal, as the Braves took a 38-37 lead into halftime.
  • The Wildcats missed another big opportunity in the opening minutes of the second half, as neither team scored in the first 3 minutes before Kennell connected on consecutive 3-pointers to expand the lead to 44-37 at the 15:04 to play. During this key stretch, K-State combined to miss four shots and turn the ball over three times.
  • Despite allowing 50 percent shooting, the Wildcats did turn the Braves over 23 times, including 13 steals, scoring 22 points off those miscues.
 
NON-CONFERENCE HISTORY
  • K-State has a 108-6 (.946) 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 99-5 (.951) mark at Bramlage Coliseum
  • The Wildcats have won 95 of their last 99 non-conference home games, including a 32-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 144-38 (.798) record in non-conference play since the 2006-07 season, which includes a 10-3 (.769) mark in 2018-19. The team has posted double-digit non-conference wins in 12 of the last 13 years.
  • 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 four seasons and is 47-11 (.836) in non-conference play since the start of 2015-16 season.
 
A LOOK AT THE 32 STRAIGHT NON-CONFERENCE WINS AT BRAMLAGE COLISEUM
  • A closer look at K-State's current 32-game non-conference winning streak at Bramlage Coliseum, which dates to the start of the 2015-16 season. The Wildcats have won by an average of more than 17 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
  • 11/24/18 -- Lehigh, 77-58
  • 12/15/18 -- Georgia State, 71-59
  • 12/19/18 -- Southern Miss, 55-51
  • 12/29/18 -- George Mason, 59-58
  • 11/5/19 – North Dakota State, 67-54
  • 11/13/19 – Monmouth, 73-54
  • 11/19/19 – Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 62-51
 
HISTORY AT BRAMLAGE COLISEUM
  • K-State has posted a 381-118 (.763) all-time record at Bramlage Coliseum since its opening during the 1988-89 season. The 381 wins are the most at a home venue for the Wildcats, surpassing the 378 wins at Ahearn Field House (1950-88). It is the school's third home venue.
  • K-State has registered a 181-38 (.826) record at home over the past 14 seasons, including a 79-33 (.705) mark in Big 12 play. The 181 wins rank fourth among all Big 12 schools in that span, while the 79 league victories at home are only surpassed by Kansas and Texas. In all, the program has earned double-digit victories in 26 of its 31 seasons in the arena, including a current streak of 18 straight seasons.
  • K-State has a 241-61 (.797) record at home, including a 141-10 (.933) 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 a 97-22 (.814) 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 22 losses (19 of which have come in Big 12 play) have come by a grand total of 174 points or just 7.9 points per game.
 
'CATS EARN FIRST OVERTIME ROAD WIN SINCE 2015
  • Senior Xavier Sneed scored a season-high 19 points, including 4 of the team's last 6 points in overtime, to help propel K-State to a 60-56 come-from-behind victory at UNLV on Nov. 9 at the Thomas and Mack Center.
  • Playing in their first overtime in more than a year, the Wildcats went back and forth with the Runnin' Rebels in the extra session before a jumper by Sneed with 28 seconds left gave the team the lead for good at 56-54. A deflection off a missed shot by senior Amauri Hardy went the way of K-State with 18 seconds, and junior Mike McGuirl calmly sank a pair of free throws to extend the lead to 58-54 with 13 seconds remaining.
  • Freshman DaJuan Gordon blocked a desperation 3-pointer by junior Jonah Antonio on the next Rebel possession with 7 seconds to play and Sneed finished off the Wildcat scoring with two free throws for a 60-54 lead with 4 seconds. A lay-up Hardy at the buzzer closed the scoring at 60-56.
  • Playing in their earliest road game in school history, the Wildcats claimed their first non-conference true road victory in close to two years, snapping a 3-game losing streak, and earned their first overtime victory in a road venue since a 66-63 win at No. 16 Oklahoma on Jan. 10, 2015.
 
'CATS WIN OPENER AGAIN
  • K-State opened the season with a hard-fought 67-54 win over preseason Summit League favorite North Dakota State on Nov. 5. Behind the play of junior Cartier Diarra who scored a career-high 23 points, the Wildcats used a second-half resurgence to break open a tight game.
  • K-State is now 91-25 (.784) all-time in season openers dating to the first season in 1903, including a 79-9 (.898) mark at home. The Wildcats have a 26-2 (.929) record in season openers played at Bramlage Coliseum. Overall, the team is now 28-4 (.875) at Bramlage Coliseum in home openers. Head coach Bruce Weber is now 7-1 (.875) in season openers at K-State.
  • It marked the first time the school has opened a season against an NCAA?Tournament opponent in nearly 20 seasons (an 88-69 loss at Arizona on Nov. 16, 1999) and the first time at home since hosting Purdue (with  then head coach and K-State alum Gene Keady and assistant coach Bruce Weber) in the first-ever game at Bramlage Coliseum on Nov. 26, 1988.
 
A QUICK LOOK AT K-STATE
  • The Wildcats return nine lettermen, including four players (Xavier Sneed, Makol Mawien, Cartier Diarra and Mike McGuirl) who registered starts, in 2019-20 from a squad that posted a 25-9 overall record a year ago and earned a share of the Big 12 regular-season championship for the second time under head coach Bruce?Weber. The 25-win season was the seventh in school history, including the first time in consecutive seasons. K-State is one of just 24 schools  -- 15 in power conferences -- and 3 in the Big 12 (Kansas and Texas Tech) -- with 25 wins in each of the last 2 seasons.
  • All-Big 12 honorable mention Xavier Sneed (10.6 ppg., 5.5 rpg.), fellow senior Makol Mawien (7.0 ppg., 4.9 rpg.) and key reserve and junior Cartier Diarra (6.8 ppg., 3.3 rpg.) form the core of a group returning for the Wildcats,  who must replace their top three scorers in Barry Brown, Jr. (14.6 ppg.), Dean Wade (12.9 ppg.) and Kamau?Stokes (11.0 ppg.). All three have played pivotal roles with the consecutive 25-win seasons, including 71 and 70 starts, respectively, by Mawien and Sneed and major minutes by Diarra.
  • Sneed is the team's top returner in nearly every stat category, including scoring (349), rebounding (182), assists (64), steals (45) and minutes (1014). He enters his senior season ranking 29th on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,008 points having seen action in 105 career games with starts in 70 of the last 71 games. Mawien, who has started every game of his K-State career, has the fifth-highest career field goal percentage (56.1; 204-of-364) in school history after posting the sixth-highest (59.8; 104-of-174) field goal percentage in a single season as a junior in 2017-18. Diarra scored in double figures in four consecutive games, including three in Big 12 play, before missing eight games due to a broken finger. He did come back to play in the last three games with Wade out for the season, including a 15-point effort against Iowa State in the semifinals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship and a 9-point effort in the NCAA?Tournament.
  • The Wildcats also return rising senior Pierson McAtee (0.5 ppg., 0.5 rpg.), juniors Mike McGuirl (3.6 ppg., 1.5 rpg.), Levi Stockard III (1.8 ppg., 1.5 rpg.) and James Love III (0.3 ppg., 0.4 rpg.), sophomores Nigel Shadd (0.2 ppg., 0.4 rpg.) and Shaun?Williams [was Neal-Williams] (1.4 ppg., 1.1 rpg.).
 
'CATS WELCOME FIVE NEWCOMERS
  • The Wildcats will welcome five newcomers in 2019-20, including a pair of junior college transfers (David Sloan and Joe Petrakis) and three true freshmen (Antonio Gordon, DaJuan Gordon and Montavious Murphy). 
  • Sloan was regarded as one of the top community colleges players in the country (and a Top 150 player out of high school) in 2018-19 after helping John A. Logan College to a 27-5 overall record as a sophomore. The NJCAA All-American twice led the NJCAA ranks in both total assists and assists per game, including 10.2 assists per game a year ago.
  • The freshmen were all consensus Top 200 prospects, as the recruiting class was a consensus Top 40 class nationally by a number of recruiting services, ranking No. 39 by Rivals.com and No. 40 by 247Sports.com. DaJuan Gordon was a consensus Top 150 player by both recruiting services.
  • Antonio Gordon scored nearly 1,600 points in his high school career at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Okla., and averaged 26.3 points and 10.1 rebounds as a senior in 2018-19. DaJuan Gordon was the Chicago Sun-Times City Player of the Year after averaging 17.6 points in leading Curie to the school's first city title. Murphy was one of the best players in Houston and a finalist for the Guy V. Lewis Award, averaging 19 points and 10 rebounds as a senior at Concordia Lutheran.
 
'CATS PICKED NINTH IN BIG 12 POLL; SNEED NAMED HONORABLE MENTION ALL-BIG 12
  • K-State was picked to finish ninth by the league coaches in the annual Big 12 Preseason poll released on Oct. 17, as the Wildcats received 23 points. Kansas was selected first for the ninth consecutive season, while Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas and West Virginia rounded out the Top 5.
  • The ninth-place selection tied for the lowest by a K-State team in the history of the 10-team poll, joining the 2016-17 team which was also picked to finish ninth by the league coaches. The team has been picked to finish eighth or worse 13 times in the history of the 24-year poll, including eighth in 2001-02, 2003-04, 2008-09, 2015-16 and 2017-18, ninth in 1996-97, 2004-05, 10th in 1999-2000, 11th in 2002-03 and 2005-06 and 12th in 1997-98 and 2000-01.
  • Senior Xavier Sneed was one of eight players to be selected to the honorable mention All-Big 12 preseason team, along with Oklahoma's Kristian Doolittle, Oklahoma State's Yor Anei, Texas' Matt?Coleman, Texas Tech's Chris Clarke, Davide Moretti and Jahmi'us Ramey and West Virginia's Derek Culver.
  • Kansas' Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson, along with Baylor's Tristan Clark, Iowa State's Tyrese Haliburton and TCU's Desmond Bane were named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team. Azubuike was the Preseason Player of the Year, while Chris Clarke was the Preseason Newcomer of the Year and West Virginia's Oscar Tshiebwe was the Preseason Freshman of the Year.
 
SNEED NAMED CANDIDATE FOR JULIUS ERVING AWARD
  • Senior Xavier Sneed was named one of 20 watch list members for the 2020 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award, as announced by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Oct. 16.
  • Sneed was one of two Big 12 players named to the watch list, including Texas Tech transfer Chris Clarke. Other candidates include Arizona's Josh Green, Duke's Matthew Hurt, Florida's Scottie Lewis, Gonzaga's Corey Kispert, Harvard's Seth Towns, Kentucky's Kahlil Whitney, Louisville's Jordan Nwora, Memphis' Precious Achiuwa, Oregon State's Tres Tinkle, Providence's Alpha Diallo, Purdue's Nojel Eastern, St. John's L.J. Figueroa, Syracuse's Elijah Hughes, Vermont's Anthony Lamb, Villanova's Saddiq Bey, Washington's Jaden McDaniels, Washington State's C.J. Elleby and Xavier's Naji Marshall.
  • Wade is the first K-State player to be a preseason candidate for the Wooden Award since Rodney McGruder in 2012. Jacob Pullen, who was a preseason candidate in 2010, was the last Wildcat to earn recognition to the Wooden All-American team, while Michael Beasley (2008) was the last finalist.
  • The 20-member watch list for the Erving Award will be narrowed to just 10 by mid-February. In March, five finalists will be presented to Julius Erving and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner will be presented at The College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's on April 10, 2020.
 
UP NEXT: MARQUETTE (5-2)
  • K-State will play host to Marquette (5-2) in the inaugural Big 12/Big East Battle at 8 p.m., CT on Saturday night at Bramlage Coliseum. It will mark the second game of a home-and-home series that began last season at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, an 83-71 win by the Golden Eagles. This will be the 12th meeting with Marquette and the first in Manhattan since 1986.

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