Finally, twelve years later, Kansas State will have the opportunity to avenge the end of Denis Clemente’s career. The matchups for the 2022 Big 12/Big East Challenge have been announced, and the Wildcats will be heading to Indianapolis on November 30 to face the Butler Bulldogs.
Butler, of course, defeated an exhausted K-State squad 63-56 in the 2010 Elite Eight; that’s the only previous meeting between the two schools. Indeed, in this very space last year we were outraged at being matched up with Marquette yet again, especially after the Butler game had actually been scheduled for the 2020-21 campaign but was cancelled due to COVID.