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Via K-State Athletics
MANHATTAN, Kan. Kansas State opens its first Big 12 season under head coach Jerome Tang with a New Year’s Eve home game against West Virginia as the conference bureau announced its league-wide schedule for 2022-23 on Friday morning (September 23).
The WVU game will be one of four home conference games on Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum in 2023, including visits from NCAA Tournament participants Texas Tech (January 21, 1:00 PM, CT), Texas (February 4, 3:00 PM, CT) and Iowa. State (February 18 at 5 p.m., CT). In addition, on Saturday, January 28, the Wildcats will host a fifth game on Saturday against Florida in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge at a later date.
K-State hosts the annual Dillons Sunflower Showdown with Kansas at 6:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Jan. 17, the first day of classes for the spring semester. The road game with the Jayhawks will also fall on a weekday and the Wildcats will travel to Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 7:00 PM, CT.
K-State also announced its home-non-conference game times and TV outlets. Most notably, the Wildcats’ home game with Wichita State will air on ESPNU on Saturday, December 3 at 8 p.m., CT, while the Wildcat Classic game featuring Nebraska will air at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City at 6 p.m., CT on Saturday, December 17 on Big 12 Now.
The rest of the six non-conference home games will be broadcast on Big 12 Now, including the official opening of the Jerome Tang era against UTRGV on Monday, November 7 at 8 p.m., CT in the second game of a men’s and women’s doubleheader. The home game with Washburn will tip at 7 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Season tickets for the 2022-23 home schedule and the Kansas City Wildcat Classic are currently on sale through the K-State Athletics Ticket Office by calling (800) 221.CATS and online at kstatesports.com. Ticket packages can be found here.
The Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship runs Wednesday through Saturday, March 8-11 and will be contested again at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
News and comments on the 2022-23 schedule
- West Virginia will book K-State’s conference schedule for 2022-23 as the Wildcats wrap up the regular season at the WVU Coliseum on Saturday, March 4 at 1:00 PM, CT.
- K-State will face the same opponent in the first and final conference game for the second consecutive season, after doing the same with Oklahoma in 2021-22.
- It will be the second time K-State has hosted WVU in a conference opener and the first since a double loss in overtime to the Mountaineers at home on January 2, 2016.
- K-State will host a conference game for the first time on New Year’s Eve… Overall, it’s the first New Year’s Eve game since hosting Georgia in 2014.
- K-State will play consecutive road games against the top 15 preseason enemies Texas and Baylor on Jan. 3 and 7, the first of two consecutive pieces on the road… The Wildcats will also play Texas Tech and Oklahoma in consecutive games on February 11 and 14.
- All four road games in the month of January will be against NCAA Tournament teams, including TCU (January 14) and Iowa State (January 24).
- On the other hand, K-State will host two consecutive games in Big 12 play, including Kansas and Texas Tech on January 17 and 21 and Iowa State and Baylor on February 18 and 21.
- Both games of the Sunflower Showdown will be played on weekdays for the second time in 3 years.
- K-State plays just one Wednesday game in Big 12 Play, which will be Senior Night against Oklahoma on March 1. The Sooners will be the Senior Day/Night opponent for the third time in 5 years.
- The 2022-23 season marks the final year of the double round-robin format as the Big 12 will welcome BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF for the 2023-24 season.
The wild cats at a glance
K-State enters its first year under Tang, who was hired by the school on March 21 after a 19-year stint building Baylor into a national powerhouse. The Wildcats return All-Big 12 honorable mention roster and All-Defensive Team member Markquis Nowell (12.4 ppg., 5.0 apg.) and junior striker Ish Massoud (6.8 ppg., 2.8 rpg.) . Nowell led the Big 12 in steals (2.2 spg.), while second in assists and assist/turnover ratio.
The Wildcats have signed 13 additional players for the upcoming season, including transfers Cam Carter (Mississippi State), Jerrell Colbert (LSU), Tykei Greene (Manhattan/Stony Brook), Abayomi Iyiola (Stetson/Arkansas/Hofstra), Keyontae Johnson (Florida) ). ), David N’Guessan (Virginia Tech), Desi Sills (Arkansas/Arkansas State), Anthony Thomas (UT-Martin/Tallahassee Community College), and Nae’Qwan Tomlin (Chipola College) as well as a few new freshmen at Dorian Finister and Taj Manning.
2022-23 Men’s Basketball Schedule
| Day | Date | Opponent | Time | TV |
| Tuesday | November 1st | Washburn (Exh.) | 7 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Monday | November 7th | UTRGV | 8 pm | Big 12 now |
| Friday | Nov 11 | @California | To be determined | To be determined |
| Thursday | Nov 17 | Kansas City | 5:30 PM | Big 12 now |
| Monday | November 21st | vs. Rhode Island | 7:30 pm | FloHoops |
| Tuesday | Nov 22 | vs. Nevada/Tulane | 5:30 PM | FloHoops |
| Wednesday | November 23 | vs. TBD | To be determined | FloHoops |
| Wednesday | November 30 | @Butler | 5:30 PM | FS1 |
| Saturday | December 3 | Wichita State | 8 pm | ESPNU |
| Tuesday | December 6 | Abilene Christian | 7 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Sunday | December 11 | word incarnate | 2:00 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Saturday | December 17 | Nebraska | 6:00 PM | Big 12 now |
| Wednesday | 21st of December | Radford | 1:30 PM | Big 12 now |
| Saturday | December 31 | West Virginia* | To be determined | To be determined |
| Tuesday | January 3rd | @Texas* | 8 pm | LHNO |
| Saturday | January 7 | @Baylor* | 5 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Tuesday | January 10 | State of Oklahoma* | 6:00 PM | ESPNU |
| Saturday | January 14 | @TCU* | 1 o’clock in the afternoon | ESPN2/U |
| Tuesday | January 17th | Kansas* | 6:00 PM | ESPN/2/U |
| Saturday | 21st of January | Texas Tech* | 1 o’clock in the afternoon | ESPN2/U |
| Tuesday | January 24 | @Iowa State* | 8 pm | ESPNU |
| Saturday | January 28 | Florida | To be determined | To be determined |
| Tuesday | January 31st | @Kansas* | 7 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Saturday | February 4 | Texas | 3 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
| Tuesday | February 7 | TCU | 8 pm | ESPNU |
| Saturday | February 11 | @Texas Tech* | 6:00 PM | Big 12 now |
| Tuesday | February 14th | @Oklahoma* | 8 pm | ESPNU |
| Saturday | February 18 | Iowa State* | 5 p.m. | ESPN2/U |
| Tuesday | February 21st | Baylor* | 6:00 PM | ESPN/2/U |
| Saturday | February 25 | @Oklahoma State* | 1 o’clock in the afternoon | ESPNU |
| Wednesday | March 1 | Oklahoma* | 7 p.m. | Big 12 now |
| Saturday | 4th of March | @West Virginia* | 1 o’clock in the afternoon | Big 12 now |
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