Preseason basketball celebrations are hard to pull off at Kansas State.
The Wildcats haven’t held a Midnight Madness type event since 2014, and that impromptu evening of scrimmages and dunk contests was far from memorable. Basketball, it seemed, was a tough sell during football season.
But K-State will give it another try at 8 p.m. Friday when Madness in Manhattan begins at Bramlage Coliseum.
Coming off a 25-win season that included a trip to the Elite Eight, K-State coach Bruce Weber decided there was too much basketball excitement on campus to wait until November for this team’s public debut.