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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How to take this game?
The Kansas State basketball team defeated Loyola-Chicago 92-54 in its season-opener and did so rather easily, which is good.
But coach Frank Martin was so angry with his team’s performance that he said his players should be “embarrassed,” which is bad.
As is the case in most situations like this, it’s best to fall somewhere in the middle. That would make K-State’s performance on Friday at Bramlage Coliseum fairly average.
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Sitting next to each other behind the Kansas State bench tonight are Will Spradling and Nino Williams, a pair of future Wildcats.
The two high school seniors, who both live in the Kansas City area, seem to be pals.
Spradling, a 6-foot guard from Shawnee Mission South, signed his national letter of intent to play for K-State two days ago and says he is excited to join Frank Martin’s squad next season.
Williams, a 6-foot-5 small forward from Leavenworth, will attend prep school next year and join the Wildcats for the 2011 season.
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Earlier in the week, Frank Martin said he didn’t consider Syracuse losing to Division II Le Moyne as a meaningless loss.
Even though it was labeled as an exhibition game, the Orange still sold tickets and tried to win. The loss may not have done anything to their record, but it was real and so was all the talk about it on ESPN the next day.
Maybe he brought that up to his players on Sunday. Maybe he didn’t. But Kansas State easily avoided the same outcome, and pounded Pittsburg State 89-53 in its exhibition opener at Bramlage Coliseum.
After the first media timeout, the game was horribly lopsided and Martin got to experiment with different lineups. The results were overall good.
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Fans here in Manhattan are starting to gear up for football, but many of them kicked off their day by watching the K-State men’s basketball team scrimmage.
A decent crowd came out to Bramlage Coliseum early this morning to watch Curtis Kelly lead all Wildcat scorers with 10 points.
The UConn transfer looked very good following missed shots at the basket and showing off his post moves. He came on during the second segment of the scrimmage, where he scored all 10 of his points in a row for the gray team.
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Kansas State men’s basketball coach Frank Martin won’t showcase his team in front of a live audience until next Saturday, but he expects his players to know the ins and outs of what it takes to be a Wildcat before then.
With so many underclassmen on his roster the last few years, that hasn’t always been the case. Especially two years ago, when the Wildcats had all kinds of talent but almost zero experience.
“Two years ago we had nine first year guys,” Martin said. “Those guys had no idea what was coming.”
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The Big 12 preseason basketball poll is out, and the leagues’ coaches are predicting that Kansas State will be the conference’s fourth best team.
By starting that close to the top, K-State tied for its highest ranking in the preseason poll. The Wildcats narrowly missed third place, and received 92 total points. Here is the complete poll:
Team (first place votes)
1. Kansas (11) 121
2. Texas (1) 111
3. Oklahoma 95
4. Kansas St. 92
5. Texas A&M 74
6. Oklahoma St. 69
7. Missouri 66
8. Iowa St 57
9. Texas Tech 34
10. Baylor 33
11. Nebraska 27
12. Colorado 13