In their first game since Dean Wade’s injury, K-State (8-2) started well, running out to a 7-0 lead over Southern Mississippi (7-4). The team also finished on a 34-16 run over the last 14:27 of the game. Between those two benchmark moments, the Wildcats were any synonym you want to choose for awful, especially on the offensive end of the floor.
K-State won, 55-51, largely due to a heroic scoring effort by Kamau Stokes, who (after K-State turned the ball over on 4 of its first 5 possessions after halftime) scored the team’s first 13 second half points to begin erasing what had been a 16-point deficit moments before.