Kansas State’s basketball team faces Loyola in the South Region final on Saturday while the Wildcats’ baseball team plays a Big 12 series at TCU this weekend.
Had he taken a different path, Clayton Custer, Loyola’s terrific junior point guard, could have been suiting up for either team.
Instead, Custer will attempt to prevent the school he could have attended from reaching the Final Four.
Turn back the clock about six years. Custer was a standout basketball player and shortstop at Blue Valley Northwest High School.
His first major-conference basketball offer came from then-Kansas State coach Frank Martin.