Kansas State's locker room was filled with tears, curse words and many other forms of frustration following an Elite Eight loss to Loyola-Chicago over the weekend. But those negative emotions didn't last long.
As hard as it was for the Wildcats to fall one game short of the Final Four, there was an obvious silver lining at the end of their NCAA Tournament journey — they should be better next season.
"Nobody expected us to be here but us," redshirt freshman guard Cartier Diarra said. "But we expect the Final Four. We expect nothing less than that next year.