According to college basketball statistician Bart Torvik, K-State has played like a top 25 team over its past five games. He has the Wildcats at No. 20 nationally during that time. K-State is starting to play much better on offense and its defense has also picked up at home.

Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang said after the Baylor game that the Wildcats are close to a breakthrough, but desperately need a win.

Kansas State is having its best two-game stretch in conference play this season. Wildcats coach Jerome Tang attributes the dominating performances to the strong scoring defense. Since its Baylor loss,

Coach Jerome Tang has added a mid-season transfer to the Kansas State men’s basketball roster. Tyreek Smith, a 6-foot-6 senior guard who previously played at Texas Tech and Oklahoma State and SMU and Memphis, has enrolled at K-State in time for the start of the spring semester.