Some snap shots from the Kansas State basketball team’s trip to Puerto Rico:
Kansas State and Ole Miss tip things off at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico as a packed house looks on.
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Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente will get most of the credit for this win, and by combining to score 47 points they certainly deserve praise.
But nobody on the Kansas State basketball roster was more instrumental in Sunday’s 83-75 victory over No. 18 Dayton than Dominique Sutton.
The junior guard made tough play after tough play at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, and by the time the Wildcats were celebrating a third-place finish in this tournament he had the local fans chanting his name.
“Dominique, Dominique, Dominique,” they yelled from the front row. “You gonna be in the NBA. Dominque, Dominique, Dominique.”
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The Mississippi basketball team got consistent scoring from two of its best players and Kansas State did not.
In the end, that was enough for Ole Miss to defeat K-State 86-74 on Friday and hand the Wildcats their first loss of the season in the semifinals of the Puerto Rico Tip-off.
With the loss, K-State dropped to 3-1 and will next play Dayton on Sunday instead of Villanova in the tournament’s championship game.
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Rodney McGruder is starting to look like a marksman.
The freshman guard came off the bench Thursday in Puerto Rico and knocked down four of five three-point shots and led all Kansas State scorers with 20 points.
His big night couldn’t have come at a better time. Play was sloppy throughout at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, and K-State’s best two veteran guards (Denis Clemente and Jacob Pullen) didn’t play well. But behind McGruder and some tough second play, the Wildcats pushed past Boston University for an 80-70 victory in its first game of the Puerto Rico Tip-off.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Kansas State senior center Luis Colon, a Puerto Rico native, missed the first two games of the season with a hand injury, and once again sat out Thursday’s game. But coach Frank Martin said his no show had nothing to do with his injury this time.
“Some things have come up off the court that we’re looking into right now,” Martin said. “We’re going to continue to keep him out until we get home and get a better idea of what’s happening. It’s unfortunate. He’s healthy enough to play I just can’t play him.”
Not being able to play surely puts a damper on Colon’s trip home. But Martin said he had no choice but to keep him in street clothes.
When asked to elaborate on what the off-court problem was Martin said, “He’s not in trouble with the law. If he was he wouldn’t be here.”
Colon averaged 4.4 points and 4.7 rebounds as a junior.
The Kansas State basketball team made its recruiting class for the 2010-2011 season a lot bigger on Tuesday by announcing that Freddy Asprilla has given his written commitment to play for the Wildcats.
Asprilla, a 6-foot-10, 280-pound center, averaged 14 points and 9.3 rebounds with Florida International and was named 2009 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year for his efforts.
He comes to Manhattan from Miami Dade junior college.
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