No Kansas State basketball players have come closer to beating Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse than Barry Brown and Dean Wade over the past 13 years.
Wade missed an open three on the wing that could have sunk the Jayhawks here as a sophomore. Then Brown misfired when presented with the same opportunity as a junior. After those close calls, they seemed determined to take things a step further and beat their rivals on the road, making an already memorable season even better.
But things didn’t play out that way. Not by a long shot.
Instead of lifting K-State to its first win in Lawrence since the Jim Wooldridge era, the Wildcats’ two best players hardly factored into a 64-49 loss on Monday.