Turns out the crowd of experts that picked UC Irvine to upset Kansas State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament were right.
K-State’s men’s basketball season came to an end with a 70-64 loss to the No. 13 seed Anteaters on Friday at SAP Center.
It was a disappointing ending to an otherwise exciting season for the fourth-seeded Wildcats. They won 25 games and claimed a share of the Big 12 regular-season championship, but they couldn’t follow up on that with any NCAA Tournament wins.
This game in some ways mirrored K-State’s 2013 loss to La Salle in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, when the Wildcats coincidentally last won a conference title.