3 February 2024
STILLWATER, Okla. (KSNT) – The Wildcats struggles continued on Saturday in Oklahoma.
K-State lost to Oklahoma State, 75-72, in Stillwater to fall to 4-5 in Big 12 play. The loss extends the Wildcats’ losing streak to five. OSU entered the game 9-12 overall and 1-7 in conference play.
K-State has now turned the ball over 15 or more times in six of its last seven games.
The scoring was slow for both teams early in the game but a cold shooting start for OSU helped put K-State in front 15-9 after eight minutes of play. Tang’s team led by as many as nine in the first half. However, a 12-0 Cowboy run boosted the home team to a five point lead late in the first half. Arthur Kaluma‘s old fashioned three-point-play pulled the ‘Cats back within a score before the midway point. Kansas State trailed 29-27 at halftime.
Cam Carter tied the game with a jump shot on the first possession of the second half but Oklahoma State responded with a three-pointer and never surrendered the lead in the final 19:21.
K-State got the ball in the final 20 seconds down by three but Cam Carter and Tylor Perry both missed three-pointers in the final possession of the game.
Tylor Perry led the team with 19 points, which all came in the second half.
The Wildcats’ overall record falls to 14-8 with the loss. K-State returns home for the Sunflower Showdown as KU comes to Manhattan for ESPN’s Big Monday on Feb. 5.