The 2018–19 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team represented
Kansas State University
Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
in the
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four in Minneapolis on April 8, 2019. Practices officially began on Septembe ...
. Their head coach was
Bruce Weber in his seventh year at the helm of the Wildcats. The team played its home games in
Bramlage Coliseum in
Manhattan, Kansas as members of the
Big 12 Conference. They finished the season 25-9, to finish in first place. In the Big 12 tournament, they defeated
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in the quarterfinals before losing to
Iowa State
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in the semifinals. They received a at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they were upset by
UC Irvine in the First Round.
Previous season
The
Wildcats
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finished the
2017–18 season 25–12, 10–8 in
Big 12 play to finish in fourth place. They defeated
TCU TCU may stand for:
Education
* Tanzania Commission for Universities, regulatory body for Universities in Tanzania
* Texas Christian University, a private university in Fort Worth, Texas
** TCU Horned Frogs, the athletic programs of the school
* Tok ...
in the quarterfinals of the
Big 12 tournament
The Big 12 Conference sponsors championships in 23 sports, 10 men's and 13 women's. The first conference championship awarded was the 1996 softball postseason tournament championship, which was won by Oklahoma.
From 2011 through 2016, the foot ...
before losing to
Kansas in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the
NCAA tournament as the No. 9 seed in the South region. There they defeated
Creighton,
UMBC, and
Kentucky to advance to the Elite Eight. In the Elite Eight, they lost to
Loyola–Chicago.
Offseason
Departures
Incoming transfers
2018 recruiting class
Roster
Schedule and results
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Big 12 Tournament
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Rankings
*AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings
^Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll.
References
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