MANHATTAN
Malek Harris, a freshman reserve and former top 100 recruit, has been dismissed from the Kansas State basketball team by coach Bruce Weber, the university announced Friday. He is the fifth player to depart the program since the Wildcats’ ended their season with a disappointing 15-17 record, and the sixth player to exit in the past year.
Add on the losses of seniors Thomas Gipson and Nino Williams and K-State is left with five returning scholarship players.
Three of the departing players –Jack Karapetyan, Nigel Johnson, Jevon Thomas – opted to transfer for various reasons including playing time and homesickness.