2025-26 Kansas State MBB: Recreation 26 vs Baylor
Nicely…right here we’re.
Followers had been clamoring for a change, nevertheless it was not anticipated to occur fairly so quickly. Regardless, the decision has been answered and whether or not or not you agree with how it occurred, it has: Jerome Tang has formally been eliminated as head coach of your Kansas State males’s basketball group.
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Matt Driscoll, longtime head coach at North Florida who joined the workers this previous offseason as affiliate head coach, has taken on the interim position and can try and navigate the ultimate six common season video games and no less than one recreation in Kansas Metropolis on the Large 12 Event earlier than this catastrophe of a season is lastly over.
Do not anticipate a stark change. Driscoll was supposedly already operating the Okay-State offense, and changing Tang will not change the gamers or immediately change the defensive and rebounding ability and energy. There are some issues baked into this present squad which are simply not going to vary in a single day.
So tonight, your 10-15, 1-11 Wildcats face off towards a Baylor squad that has wildly underperformed this 12 months, enter this recreation at simply 13-12 general and 3-9 in Large 12 play and are headed for Scott Drew’s worst season in Waco in 20 years. However a Nationwide Championship head coach is normally given loads of grace, particularly one coming off 13-straight post-season appearances.
Regardless of Tang’s firing, Drew will nonetheless be dealing with off towards a former assistant, as Driscoll first joined Drew at Valparaiso earlier than becoming a member of the brand new workers at Baylor, helping there till taking the pinnacle job at North Florida in 2009. He might not be as intimately accustomed to Drew as Tang was, however it could be sufficient to assist Driscoll a little bit of an edge on Drew and the Bears.
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It will likely be fascinating to see how the TangDriscollCats reply to the change, and to having actually nothing to play for however pleasure down the stretch.
We have got an 8:05pm CT typoff from Bramlage Coliseum, and you may catch the motion on ESPN2, and streaming on WatchESPN.com, with Mark Neely (play-by-play) and Miles Simon (analyst) on the decision.
If you do not have ESPN2, or cannot entry the stream, the sport might be heard throughout parts of the 28-station Okay-State Sports activities Community with Wyatt Thompson (play-by-play) and Stan Weber (analyst) calling the motion. The sport will even be obtainable on-line at Okay-Statesports.com and by way of the Varsity Community app, in addition to on satellite tv for pc radio at Sirius/XM Ch. 139/199. Reside stats are additionally obtainable at k-statesports.com, and social media updates (@KStateMBB) will even be a part of the protection.
Go Cats!
