The Kansas State men’s basketball team will play its final home game of the month at 7 p.m. Monday when it hosts Tulsa at Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State, which is off to an encouraging 3-0 start, begins the season with four straight home games. After that, the Wildcats are off to T-Mobile Center for two games in the Hall of Fame Classic. Then they will head to Indiana for a high-profile road game against the Hoosiers.
But first is a home matchup with the Golden Hurricane.
Here’s everything you need to know before tipoff.
K-State vs. Tulsa: Game details
When: 7 p.m. Monday
Where: Bramlage Coliseum (Manhattan)
TV: ESPN+
Radio: KCSP (610 AM) in Kansas City, KFH (1240 AM and 97.5 FM) in Wichita
Odds: K-State by 12.5 with an O/U of 161.5.
Probable starters
Tulsa (3-0)
- F (23) — David Green, 6-7, Sr., 16.7 ppg
- F (9) — Tyler Behrend, 6-10, Jr., 5.7
- G (14) — Miles Barnstable, 6-2, Sr., 16.0
- G (10) — Tylen Riley, 6-3, Jr., 14.7
- G (0) — Ade Popoola, 6-5, Jr., 8.0
Kansas State (3-0)
- F (21) — Khamari McGriff, 6-9, Sr., 13.7
- F (0) — Elias Rapieque, 6-9, Jr., 3.0
- G (34) — Nate Johnson, 6-3, Sr., 17.0
- G (1) — Abdi Bashir, 6-7, Jr., 12.7
- G (4) — PJ Haggerty, 6-4, Jr., 24.3
About Tulsa:
The Golden Hurricane are off to a 3-0 start with wins over Oklahoma Christian, Rhode Island and Oral Roberts. They are shooting the ball well from 3-point range (46.7%) and they aren’t committing many turnovers. Miles Barnstable and David Green are the team’s leading scorers. Tulsa is coming off a 13-win season under head coach Eric Konkol.
About K-State:
The Wildcats have been all gas, no brakes this season. With new assistant coach Matthew Driscoll in command of the offense, K-State is lighting up the scoreboard. The Wildcats lead the nation in 3-point percentage (54.4%) and effective field goal percentage (69%). For those reasons, K-State has flirted with 100 points in all three of their games.
PJ Haggerty and Nate Johnson have led the Wildcats to a 3-0 start. But the defense has been suspect at times.
K-State game prediction:
The oddsmakers have been slow to adjust their numbers on K-State.
Jerome Tang’s team is averaging more than 97 points per game, but the over/under team points total for K-State is 87.5 against Tulsa. The Wildcats are fresh off the highest-scoring game in Bramlage Coliseum history (a 99-96 win over Cal), but the over/under points total for Monday’s game is 161.5.
On paper, Tulsa does not look like an opponent that will slow down K-State. The Golden Hurricane struggle to defend the 3-point line, and the Wildcats have been feasting on the perimeter early on this season.
It will come as a surprise if this isn’t another high-scoring affair. Tulsa is averaging 90 points per game. It will gladly run with K-State.
The 12.5-point spread does feel right, though.
K-State will need to play better defense than it did against Cal to win this game by a big number. But the Wildcats may be ready to do exactly that after they watched Cal nearly erase a 25-point deficit on them last week.
K-State 100, Tulsa 85
Last game prediction: K-State 83, Cal 79 ✅ (actual score: K-State 99, Cal 96)
Season record: 3-0.
Season record ATS: 3-0.
Season record O/U: 3-0.
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Kellis Robinett
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Kellis Robinett covers Kansas State athletics for The Wichita Eagle and The Kansas City Star. A winner of more than a dozen national writing awards, he lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.
