The wild NCAA Tournament ride has finally ended, and the shorthanded No. 9 seed Kansas State basketball team didn’t have enough tread left on the tires to keep up with the No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago Ramblers, ending in an South Region Elite Eight defeat inside Atlanta’s Philips Arena.
The game got ugly in a hurry, with the Ramblers running off to a 15-5 lead early in the game, and they never looked back from that point on.
Despite some typically strong defense from the Wildcats, Sister Jean’s boys kept the pressure on, while it seemed nothing was falling for the Cats.