MANHATTAN — It may have been the most critical basket of the game for Kansas State, and the only person in Bramlage Coliseum who didn’t see it go through the net was the person who made the shot.
Columbia had made three straight 3-point baskets, cutting a 12-point K-State lead to three with just under six minutes remaining. Two minutes later, Wildcat guard Kamau Stokes found Dean Wade in the corner in front of the K-State bench and Wade buried a 3-point shot.
“That was just muscle memory, I guess,” Wade said. “I could not see the rim at all.