Kansas State’s young basketball team led early and hung around with No. 18 Texas Tech for most of the game Tuesday night in Lubbock before ultimately falling 82-71.
It may sound like sunshine-pumping, but considering the adversity they had to overcome, this outcome suggests real progress is being made in Manhattan. Consider this:
- K-State (5-7, 1-3 Big 12) traveled to Texas Tech (9-3, 2-2) with only eight scholarship players due to injury, COVID-19 and who-knows-what other roadblocks.
- The Cats were without Montavious Murphy (a starter last year), Antonio Gordon (a useful, high-energy tweener), Kaosi Ezeagu (another big to compliment Davion Bradford) and Luke Kasubke (who has yet to play this year, but since we’re listing hurdles.