A sloppy, listless start to Kansas State’s midweek matchup with the Albany Great Danes had Coach Bruce Weber fuming. At the first media timeout, he chided his team for having four turnovers in four minutes. At the second, he lambasted them for committing eight in the game’s first eight minutes. The message finally got through, as K-State only lost the ball eight more times the rest of the way in their 71-43 pasting of Albany.
Albany entered the night ranked No. 306 by KenPom, and the Wildcats’ early effort seemed to be testing the theory that they could play terribly and still win.