If this is how Kansas State always played, there would never have been a question about the NCAA Tournament or Bruce Weber’s further employment.
That is both the joy and the frustration of college basketball, and this time of year in particular, when seasons and sometimes careers are decided in 40-minute chunks. K-State played what two players called its best game of the year Thursday, beating the bigger and more talented Baylor Bears for the second time this season, a 70-64 win in a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal probably locking it into the NCAA Tournament.
“I would be very disappointed with our league, and how good it is,” Weber said, referring to the possibility of K-State being left out.