Let’s start by noting this was just one game and UT Rio Grande Valley is a very bad basketball team, picked to finish last in the WAC, ranked 332 out of 364 Division I teams by KenPom.
That disclaimer aside, could Jerome Tang’s regular season debut at Bramlage Coliseum have gone any better Monday night? This Kansas State team looks like a group ready to Make Basketball Fun Again.
The athleticism. The energy. The fast breaks. The in-your-face defense. The alley oops. The 3-point shooting! It was all there for the Wildcats in a 93-59 thrashing that wasn’t really that close.