It won't be long now before the Kansas State basketball team is ready to announce its nonconference schedule for the 2018-19 season.
Bruce Weber has been hard at work trying to strengthen the Wildcats' early slate of games since the end of March. With the entire starting lineup returning from a team that won 25 games and reached the Elite Eight, they are ready to challenge themselves before the start of Big 12 games next season.
It appears they will do exactly that.
We know K-State will play Marquette, Texas A&M and Tulsa on the road next season, face Vanderbilt at Sprint Center and participate in the Paradise Jam (a three-game tournament that features Missouri and Oregon State).