Kansas State basketball vs. Kansas recap: Wildcats win Sunflower Showdown in overtime
MANHATTAN — Kansas State's basketball team will try to end a four-game losing streak on Monday night when No. 4-ranked Kansas visits Bramlage Coliseum for the first chapter of the 2024 Sunflower Showdown Series.
With a 75-72 loss at Oklahoma State on Saturday, K-State fell to 14-8 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12. Kansas (18-4, 6-3) is coming off an impressive 78-65 victory at home against Houston to claim a share of the conference lead with the Cougars.
Still, Kansas is just 1-3 in conference road games and K-State is 3-1 at home in league play. The Wildcats won last year's matchup at Bramlage, 83-82, in overtime, with the Jayhawks winning 90-78 in Lawrence.
Kevin McCullar averages 19.7 points and Hunter Dickinson 18.8 with 11.1 rebounds for KU, while Cam Carter leads K-State with 15.8 points per game, followed by Tylor Perry with 14.6 and Arthur Kaluma with 14.4.
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Kansas State game time, TV channel, betting odds tonight vs. Kansas
TIPOFF: 8 p.m.
TV: ESPN
BETTING ODDS: Kansas by 4
Kansas State basketball score updates vs. Kansas
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FINAL: Kansas State 75, Kansas 70 (OT)
K-State does it again against KU in Bramlage with a 75-70 overtime win. Wildcats now 11-0 in OT under Jerome Tang, 6-0 this year. They also snapped a four-game losing streak and are now 15-8, 5-5 Big 12. Tylor Perry 26 points and Cam Carter 19. pic.twitter.com/CHC0vNRtQi
— Arne Green (@arnegreen) February 6, 2024
END OF REGULATION: Kansas State 64, Kansas 64
End of regulation stats pic.twitter.com/nxFkbhQmLA
— Arne Green (@arnegreen) February 6, 2024
HALFTIME: Kansas 32, Kansas State 30
Good first-half effort if not necessarily pretty for K-State, which trails KU at halftime, 32-30. Cam Carter 8 points, Will McNair 7 for the Wildcats, while Hunter Dickinson, Kevin McCullar and Dajuan Harris each have seven for KU. pic.twitter.com/zR8KjGsYkQ
— Arne Green (@arnegreen) February 6, 2024
Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.
This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Kansas State basketball score updates vs. Kansas in Sunflower Showdown
