The first eight games of Kansas State’s basketball season have felt like a crash course in sports psychology for Dean Wade.
The sophomore forward began the year focused on one thing: scoring. He made 14 of his first 29 shots and went scoreless in the Wildcats’ biggest nonconference game, a 69-68 loss to Maryland.
“I wasn’t playing very good,” Wade said Thursday.
Then he shifted his focus to other areas: defense, rebounding, and sharing the basketball. Suddenly, he made 12 of his next 18 shots and became a scoring factor. Last time out, he did a little bit of everything and led K-State to a 74-55 victory against Prairie View A&M with 19 points, nine rebounds and five assists.