page 3: NEWS
Mandela Washington Fellowship returns, fellows from Africa arriving in June
page 5: Arts & Culture
OPINION: What healthy relationships really look like
page 10: Arts & Culture
Highlights from Super Bowl parade in Kansas City
page 12: Sports
What baseball newcomers mean for the Wildcats
After a meeting addressing recent conversation about LGBTQ education, Unity Nebesniak, Wefald resident assistant, posted a TikTok detailing frustrations LGBTQ residents and RAs face in the dorms and the lack of response from Kansas State.
“A lot of discrimination happens, like people telling others they are going to go to hell on rounds, getting slurs carved in the doors. … Nothing has really been happening when that happens,” Nebesniak said. “We bring it up but nothing changes.”
This year, Nebesniak said they were frustrated by another RA’s language toward them.
“Two days after starting testosterone for my transition, the staff member literally yelled down the hallway while me and another person were doing rounds … and this is direct quotes: ‘Are you feeling angry on all that testosterone?’” Nebesniak said. “And that is not OK at all. That is one specific instance from this year.”
The post, calling for “equity and accountability now, not later,” received over 83,500 views and was shared over 2,000 times across messaging services.
“We [RAs] talked about our frustrations with housing and dining not being able to hold people accountable for their actions, especially in regards to LGBTQ people,” Nebesniak said.
Nebesniak said the post compiles instances that offended them during their time in the dorms.
“Like, RAs having a bible study in the lobby, I feel like that is a line where it gets wishy-washy, because
should be able to practice, but also if your practice is impeding the community you are trying to create, that is a problem,” Nebesniak said.
Nebesniak said two meetings took place before they decided it was time to post a TikTok. The first involved a group of Christian RAs and Derek Jackson, associate director of Housing and Dining Services. The discussion was about Equity and Inclusion lessons RAs participate in every year.
“Equity and Inclusion meetings happen periodically throughout the year during staff training,” Maleah Meyer, senior RA in fine arts, said.
“We are shown a mix of videos, web-
sites and other resources, then there is always some sort of discussion either in small groups or as a whole. Each year our senior staff picks the theme. This year it was LGBTQ.”
Meyer said the group of Christian RAs met with Jackson to share their perspective of the Equity and Inclusion discussions.
“Some of the Christian RAs had concerns about how Equity and Inclusion meetings were conducted and how sometimes we feel like our views are seen as uneducated or narrow-minded,” Meyer said.
Nebesniak said after the meeting with Jackson took place, rumors spread around the dorms about the intention behind it.
“Rumors I heard being spread were that they were upset with the Equity and Inclusion topic and they wanted it to be canceled,” Nebesniak said. “Those were the really awful rumors that went around and obviously that would cause a lot of harm.”
Meyer said the real intention of the meeting with Jackson was to communicate concerns about Christian RAs’ discomfort when sharing their views at Equity and Inclusion discussions.
“It makes me really anxious because I feel like there have been circumstances in the past where people have said things as loving as possible that off ended other people because they weren’t the same views,” Meyer said. “There was a trust that was broken.”
The second meeting — held in response to rumors — included all RAs and Jackson with the goal to clear up confusion. Nebesniak said this was not the case for them and inspired them to post the TikTok.
“Basically it was like ‘yeah we are going to think about all of this in the future and we are really going to do something to move forward’ but like, no actual stuff was said that was going to happen,” Nebesniak said. “So that is why I made the TikTok, I have been saying this for years — if K-State is reactive and not proactive, let’s give them something to react to. That is the thought process.”
Jackson said Housing and Dining Services has a zero-tolerance policy
think is best,” Johnson said. “It’s just a matter of finding that common ground of helping people express that in a better way.”
Jackson said Housing and Dining Services plans to ease tensions and address this issue.
“We have work to do on reconciliation. Our teams are stressed, and I know they’ve been working for the last couple of weeks on building with each other,” Jackson said. “We’ve talked about bringing in some outside people and resources as well to help us continue to work within these areas.”
Nebesniak said they want to reach an understanding and have conversations in future meetings about how to approach LGBTQ issues.
“This is not about being upset with them over this,” Nebesniak said. “This is about educating them on why this is upsetting. For me, I think it all stems from learning from things and not being hostile towards them which was their concern in the first place.”
for discrimination and the department focuses on creating a safe space for all students.
“Are we there? No. Do we need to get better? Absolutely. Are we going to ignore this? No,” Jackson said. “It’s easy sometimes to ignore difficult conversations and difficult identities, but that really doesn’t strengthen trust within a team.”
Chase Johnson, junior in biology and RA, observed this issue as it emerged and says he understands both perspectives.
“Each side has its own perspective, and neither is inherently wrong. Everyone is trying to do what they
To move forward, Nebesniak said a third meeting, centered around the importance of language and education, will take place.
“We are going to have a slide show where it is like, ‘Ok so if you use this language this is how it comes across to people.’ For example, saying ‘well I don’t believe in that,’ that makes people feel invisible as a queer person,” Nebesniak said. “I am not a unicorn. I exist.”
To receive guidance and help involving discrimination or confusion surrounding LGBTQ education, visit the LGBT Resource Center located in Holton Hall.
“... if K-State is reactive and not proactive, let’s give them something to react to.”
Unity Nebesniak
Kansas State’s Reward, Timing, and Decision Lab conducts research involving rats to discover how diet affects impulsive decision making. The goal is to help “develop interventions for impulsive choice,” Lexe West, senior in psychology, said.
“We had some rats that were given a standard control diet of grain pellets every day, and we had another group that was on an intermittent diet,” West said. “Some days they were fed a lot of food, and some days they were fed very little to replicate intermittent fasting. We had two other groups that were given access to icing, and we were looking to see how that affected their impulse control.”
West said the research she conducted revealed short “behavioral interventions” where the rats, left unfed for a period of time, resulted in behavioral changes.
“We were manipulating the length of interventions,” West said. “Normally, when we give a behavioral intervention, it lasts about 45 days. … It was really interesting that we found that even at six days of behavioral intervention we were seeing robust behavioral changes, and we saw that it was super effective.”
West said the findings of this study will be used to help people who struggle with impulse control.
“It gives us a better understanding of impulsive decision making, what causes certain individuals to be more impulsive than others
and the different ways we can mitigate these maladaptive behaviors because they’re associated with a lot of different disease states and mental health issues,” West said. “If we can get an understanding of the actual circuitry involved with impulse control, maybe we can help individuals who struggle with that executive function.”
Kimberly Kirkpatrick, principal investigator of the Reward, Timing, and Decision Lab, said the research could help those struggling with addiction using intervention tactics.
“We developed software that we used in a clinical trial with opiate use disordered patients to help them improve their self control and manage their cravings better and try not to relapse,” Kirkpatrick
said. “We got some really promising results.”
Kirkpatrick, professor of psychological sciences, said moving forward, the lab will continue to explore how its research could help those with substance abuse disorders.
“We now have a follow-up grant with the startup company who really wants to develop and commercialize the intervention we’ve translated to people,” Kirkpatrick said. “If the grant comes through, I think we could actually build software that might really help people with substance abuse disorders.”
West received the Barry M. Goldwater scholarship in 2022 for her work in this study.
“This is a nationally competitive scholarship,” West said. “It’s funded by the government, and it’s awarded to
individuals who demonstrate a bright future in science.”
Kirkpatrick said West deserves the Goldwater scholarship because of her hard work and background.
“The Goldwater is for students who are from underrepresented groups, and Lexe is a first-generation student so I thought that made her a good fit,” Kirkpatrick said. “I also think there’s something special about her, because Lexe comes from a background where she’s had to overcome barriers, because she has had to be the one to figure out how to finance her degree.”
Travis Smith, assistant professor of psychological sciences, said West stood out from her peers early on in her research journey.
“Lexe is probably one
of our stars, and that was observed very early on,” Smith said. “She picked up everything in terms of how a lab operates really fast. She’s always super engaged and intellectually curious about everything we do, much more noticeably than the typical students we tend to bring in.”
West said she encourages anyone interested in research to start looking for lab opportunities at K-State.
“K-State really does offer wonderful opportunities for students to get involved,” West said. “I think the best thing you can do is just reach out to PIs [principal investigators]. A lot of them are really excited about their research, and want to share it with others. The best thing you can do is ask.”
opportunities at participating tial initiative funded by the U.S. with sub-Saharan Africa.
“We are the only institute in Kansas, and we were one of the first and only ones in the middle of the country,” Gott said.
Gott said K-State offers fellows unique learning experiences they can use when they visit their home country — an example being the school’s agricultural institution.
1509 Wreath Ave, Manhattan www.mhkjc.org 785 477-5759
LIKE us on Facebook Manhattan Jewish Congregation
To receive information on email: manhattanjc@gmail.com
ALL ARE WELCOME to join us
Worship Service at 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. or livestream our services online.
Adult and Children
Bible Hour Classes
Offered at 10:00 a.m. 785.776.0424
www.gracebchurch.org
2901 Dickens Ave.
(2 blks. E. of Seth Child)
“We typically have a subset of fellows that work specifically in food security or food safety or some sort of access to agriculture for women or for rural populations,” Gott said. “We have been really grateful for partners at the College of Ag and have taken full advantage of their Feed the Future Labs and their faculty, who are really generous.”
Xatyiswa Maqashalala, an alumna of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, came from South Africa to K-State to learn about civic management and is currently receiving her doctorate in leadership communication at K-State.
Maqashalala said 40,000 people apply to the Mandela Washington Fellowship annually and only 700 participants are selected.
“It’s very selective,” Chance Lee, academic director for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, said. “As a result, you get folks from across the continent that have done amazing things.”
Lee said the people selected are incredibly accomplished.
“One way of measuring that is the selection rate,” Lee, assistant professor at the Staley School of Leadership, said. “I mean, they’ve really had to prove excellence in the process. In one way, they just have a lot more life experience.”
Maqashalala said she felt small when she first started the institute, because of how talented the fellows in her cohort were.
“I remember when I first got here, I walked around the house that we were staying at,” Maqashalala said. “Trisha put
our profiles together and pinned us to our countries. I read all the other 24 profiles and I was like, ‘what am I doing here,’ you know.”
Maqashalala said she read one of her fellows was in active war, another rescued girls who were married off too young and a member was helping save girls who were abducted by insurgents.
“The caliber of work
they do, the vision that they hold for leading change in their home communities and around the world,” Gott said.
“Just the level of thinking, but connected with doing is unmatched.”
Fellows from Africa will arrive at K-State in June to learn and connect with the Manhattan community.
Movie screens in February often portray unrealistic scenes of women getting swept off of their feet, overexaggerated romantic gestures and intense fights ending in even more intense make-ups. No matter how often viewers are told romcoms are unrealistic, the expectation of grandiose love creeps into minds and hearts everywhere. What really goes into the making of a healthy relationship?
According to Time Magazine, “the science of love and relationships boils down to fundamental lessons that are simultaneously
simple, obvious and difficult to master: empathy, positivity and a strong emotional connection.” This equation seems easily attainable when glancing over it. However, the biggest variable of this formula is missing — the other person.
One of the most unrealistic expectations set in movies and media is the concept that when a person wants to form a relationship with someone, the feeling will be reciprocated. This begs the question: how does one deal with unrequited feelings?
The easiest path to take is reflection, not redirection. Shifting unrequited feelings immediately to a new friend or partner doesn’t give that person time to heal. As much as it hurts to hear, focusing on personal growth can be the best way to get past this lack of reciprocation.
Additionally, recognizing how common unrequited love is can be equally as important. According to Good Therapy, “a study of college students and high school students found unrequited love was four times as common as reciprocated, equal love.”
When cuddling up on the couch to watch “You’ve Got Mail” or “50 First Dates,” the relationships modeled seem virtually perfect. Disputes are always solved by a passionate argument, and the story continues with the actors still completely in love with the unwavering support of their
friends. While this isn’t inherently unrealistic, learning how friends or partners function in relationships is the best way to keep relationships afloat and healthy.
Attachment styles are formed based on previous friendships or relationships and can help one understand the motivations behind friends’ and partners’ actions. According to Simply Psychology, the four different attachment styles are defined as “anxious (referred to as preoccupied in adults), avoidant (referred to as dismissive in adults), disorganized (referred to as fearful-avoidant in adults), and secure.”
People with anxious attachment styles are often described as self-doubting and
sensitive whereas those with avoidant attachment styles are thought to be self-reliant, avoidant and distant. A disorganized attachment style can often manifest itself as a constant craving for attention, but — when receiving this attention — it results in fear. Finally, someone with a secure attachment style is self-assured and responsive in conflicts.
Love languages can be beneficial when learning how people best receive love. It is important for someone to communicate which love language best resonates with them to friends or partners so they understand how to reciprocate these gestures. According to 5 Love Languages, these five categories are physical touch, quality
time, acts of service, words of affirmation and gift giving.
Learning about these two studies can help one build a larger toolbelt for dealing with conflict as well as help show love to others.
The most important components of any healthy relationship are communication and boundaries. Having healthy, respectful conversations about the positives or negatives of any relationship is extremely helpful in learning more about one’s partner or friend. Boundaries, paired with communication, can help a relationship withstand a lot of conflicts.
SEE PAGE 09, “RELATIONSHIPS”
The McCain Auditorium was filled with love, laughter and sorrow as actors switched between characters, sometimes within seconds. The Actors
From The London Stage is a traveling troupe that presents an entire Shakespeare play with only five actors and one suitcase of props and costumes.
The performance on Saturday began with the actors defining the stage area by placing cloth-made roses in a rectangle. When they weren’t actually playing a character, the actors would walk to this border, stop, and deliberately step over it, clearly communicating they were no longer a part of the scene. This ensured they weren’t a distraction even while still visible to the audience.
Before the actual Shakespeare script began, the actors introduced the characters they would play and showed the costume pieces they would wear. Each actor played at least three different parts. At times it was difficult to tell which minor character was which, but the costume changes and referencing the program made it easier to keep the story straight.
The actors played up the humor throughout the performance. It’s strange to think of “Romeo and Juliet” as a comedy, but some parts of this rendition were quite funny. It still ended as a tragedy, though the humorous moments actually made the ending seem sadder.
Surprisingly, there were no swords used during the performance. Nearly all the props were represented by pieces of red fabric. The actors were clever at manipulating the fabric and it was clear what each cloth represented. In addition, the red color was symbolic of how “Romeo and Juliet” ends: in bloodshed.
Grace Andrews and Thomas Wingfield played the young lovers and were very convincing in their roles. During the final scene in the tomb, audience members leaned forward, completely entranced. In the end,
Romeo and Juliet died tangled together in a heap. It was a stunning visual and made the audience sympathize with the pair, whose parents saw them only as puppets to be manipulated.
Kaffe Keating not only took on his share of the acting as Capulet and Mercutio, but he was also the main musician. His designated costume piece was a fedora hat, and often another actor held the hat at head height while he ducked out to play another character.
Jonathan Oldfield’s characters were the main comic relief within the play. His portrayal of Peter made viewers laugh out loud. He also had the good sense not to overdo it. His serious characters almost seemed to be played by a different actor entirely.
Hilary Maclean had the greatest number of characters
to portray. She played the nurse and a few smaller parts. She had to make all the smaller parts different enough to tell them apart without a lot of time to do it. She also managed to hold her own during Peter’s antics and have a completely believable reaction when she found Juliet faking her death.
McCain Auditorium is large, but because of the play’s intimacy, the performance would have benefited from a smaller and closer audience. Since it is a traveling production, the company has to be prepared to adjust to any size theater, and this they do very well.
The Actors from the London Stage have moved on, but if they return to Kansas State, they are worth the cost of a ticket.
Love is in the air — or is it the smell of coffee? Either way, local coffee shops have been brewing up February drink specials with lots of love.
Reagan Wiley, an employee at Joyce and Joe’s Cornerstone Cafe, said the baristas craft weekly drink specials in their spare time at work.
They currently have the Cherry Pie Chai, a cherry-flavored chai, and a Cupid’s Latte which has white chocolate and strawberry syrup.
“The Cupid’s Latte is definitely my favorite,” Wiley, dual major in sociology and psychology, said. “It’s similar to our Sweetheart Mocha, but I like it because it’s fruity and sweeter.”
The Cornerstone Cafe will be running the drinks until Feb. 17, but don’t fret — they usually
come out with new drink specials every week.
“In the next few weeks we’ll start having greenthemed drinks,” Wiley said. “We’ll at some point have a mint-Irish cream latte, a green-apple lemonade and a lavender-lime Red Bull.”
Wiley said the Red Bull drinks are new this semester and there will be new flavored Red Bull drinks to try weekly.
“This place is awesome,” Wiley said. “Students compliment the drinks all the time, saying it’s their favorite place to go on campus.”
Alexis Webb, senior in biology, said she never had coffee from the Cornerstone Cafe before trying the Cupid Latte.
“It’s really good. Normally I like to go off-campus to get coffee and study, but I want to come back for another,” Webb said.
Webb said one of her fa-
vorite spots is Radina’s on the Hill, which has its own Valentine’s-Day-inspired menu.
Radina’s is currently running four different February drinks and a Heartbreaker Coffee Flight. The four drinks are a Mint Kiss Mocha, made with strawberry, mint and chocolate, the Sweetheart Latte, made with cherry and almond, the Raspberry White Mocha and the Red Hot Tea Latte. The flights come with a Mint Kiss Mocha, a Sweetheart Latte, a Raspberry White Mocha and a Black Forest Mocha.
Marissa Newman, an employee at Radina’s on the Hill, said her favorite February drink is the Sweetheart Latte.
“We run new specials every month,” Newman said. “Next month we’re looking at doing a Lavender drink and a Honey Nut Cheerio drink.”
Another local coffee
hotspot, The Dusty Bookshelf, is also selling exclusive drinks this season.
“We’ve been running a Red Velvet Mocha,” Jordyn Coonrod, junior in biology and employee at The Dusty Bookshelf, said. “It’s a sweet coffee. It’s extra chocolatey and has red velvet syrup.”
In addition, The Dusty Bookshelf has different limited-time syrups customers can request in their drinks. Right now, they have red velvet mocha, almond and bourbon vanilla.
Coonrod said the drink will be purchasable until the end of February and a new drink special will replace it for March.
sands of Kansans and Missourians gathered in Kansas City outside of Union Station Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory over the Eagles.
speak on stage. For hours, fans were occupied by loud pop music and broadcasted replays of the team’s best plays on the big screen.
to celebrate the Kansas City
sea of spectators in red football jerseys awaited the arrival of the team to publicly
in police patrol cars for their drunken escapades. This was not to the dismay of the other fans, who watched with intrigue.
During this time, several altercations occurred between fans. Many speculated the high energy and these unruly fires. Some ram-
bunctious attendees were seen being detained for public intoxication and were wheeled away As time went on and mo-
mass drinking added fuel to
mentum grew, the Chiefs’ best players made their way down the city’s lengthy parade route and ultimately gathered on stage where they were wel-
by a never-ending rain of confetti and swarms of people that seemed mileslong in all directions. Just shy of 2 p.m., team members like Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Nick Bolton and Chiefs head coach
Andy Reid commented on their successful performance this football season.
“Patrick Mahomes was the first quarterback in the history of the NFL to be named MVP and win a Super Bowl in the same season,” Reid said.
“We ain’t finished yet,” Mahomes said. “Just wait for next season with us. They said it was a rebuild season, but I don’t know what there is to rebuild. We are the best football
Understanding physical, mental and emotional boundaries is important in a relationship and helps to avoid unnecessary arguments. This is also where love languages may play a part. If someone tells their friend their last-ranked love language is physical touch, hugging them on a daily basis wouldn’t be a good way to show them love.
While all of this information might seem to make relationships more complex, the most important thing to remember is relationships are supposed to promote well-being, not diminish it. While our favorite movies may romanticize conflict and the adrenaline rush that accompanies conflict, the healthiest relationships are ones based on trust and safety. Humans are not meant to be alone, and friendships and romantic partners help us to feel most like ourselves.
Don’t let the air of seemingly unattainable love ruin day-to-day life. The most realistic relationships are those that are based on honesty, respect and the idea that connection is one of the most beautiful parts of humanity.
Kansas State baseball reloads its roster following last-season losses on the mound and at the plate. Replacing starting pitchers Connor McCullough and Blake Adams was a priority, so the Wildcats brought in pitchers Owen Boerema and Mason Buss as a potential solution. For improvement with the team’s hitting, Roberto Pena brings in another bat with multiple years of college experience.
Traveling from the Sunshine State, Pena is expected to make an immediate impact after being named one of the team’s three captains. The Venezuela-born infielder transferred from South Florida after
starting his career at Florida and playing a season at Central Florida.
Pena smashed 17 home runs, four triples and 14 doubles during his two seasons as a South Florida Bull. Although Pena hit .236 this past season, his college career batting average is .258, including a .330 at Central Florida during the COVID-19-shortened season.
at the Division III level, tossing a 1.88 ERA in 28 appearances. His play also earned him first team All-American honors by the NCCAA, ABCA and D-III baseball, according to K-State Athletics.
K-State head coach Pete Hughes signed freshman pitcher Mason Buss as the No. 17 prospect from Wisconsin, according to Perfect Game.
Following a stellar career at the University of Northwestern in Minnesota, Owen Boerema could earn his way into the weekend starting rotation to accompany Griffin Hassall and captain Blake Corsentino. The 6-foot-5 left-handed pitcher earned Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year honors in the 2021-22 seasons
With Corsentino and Hassal in and out of weekend rotations in 2022, pitching roles are likely flexible. Therefore, an open competition exists between last season’s mid-week starters, mid-game relievers and highly-touted signees like Buss.
Kansas State baseball travels to Nacogdoches, Texas, to begin the 2023 campaign against the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks in a four-game series. It’s part of a nine-game road stint where the Wildcats play Loyola Marymount, No.
1 LSU, Sam Houston and Iowa in Texas. Then, they travel to Omaha, Nebraska, to battle the Omaha Mavericks.
This marks the Wildcats’ first contest under K-State head coach Pete Hughes’ contract extension after his initial four seasons. During those four years, the Wildcats went 98-92 (.516) and are coming off a 2929 (.500) record in 2022.
K-State suffered a 35-65 win-loss record on the road under Hughes, but looks to swing its mojo against a Lumberjack team that went 15-36 this past season with eight wins at home. Although SFA has had one winning season in the past decade, the upper-classman-heavy lineup gives them depth, especially with infielder Peyton Parker.
Parker hit a .379 batting average on 116 at-bats, raking
in 15 RBIs and scoring 21 runs. The infielder also tallied a .434 on-base percentage and struck out 15 times while walking six.
Outfielder Clayton Loranger is one of two Lumberjacks returning that hit above .300 this past season. The outfielder hit .301 on 143 at-bats, crossing the plate 21 times and hitting 15 RBIs, similar to Parker.
SFA returns two of three pitchers from last season’s set starting rotation in Joe Richter and Benny Emmons III. Richter earned two wins and four losses with a 5.20 ERA, while Emmons accumulated an 8.13 ERA and a 4-4 win-loss record. Also returning is Colton Castilaw, who made 18 appearances and is the only winning pitcher (1-0) from last season.
Meanwhile, K-State returns two right-handed pitchers
— Blake Corsentino and Griffin Hassall — who weaved their way into weekend starting rotations last season. Hassall threw a 6.24 ERA amid a 4-7 win-loss record while Corsentino pitched a 4-5 win-loss record on a 4.21 ERA.
Despite K-State’s recent
history of road struggles, the Wildcats returning starters will dominate the Lumberjacks in every facet. K-State’s sticks look to roll with preseason all-Big 12 shortstop Nick Goodwin and outfielder Cole Johnson leading the charge. Supporting casts on the mound will also step up and succeed, winning the Wildcats’ first series 3-1.
Game one starts at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17 and is available for viewing on ESPN+.
Haven't taken your test yet?
Not a problem! We will hire you as a nurse aide trainee II.
Throughout a long season, it is common for teams to hit a rough stretch. This is no different for the Kansas State men’s basketball team.
What has gone on the last three weeks hasn’t felt right; the games have gone the opposite way of what we saw in the first two months of the season.
Since Jan. 24, K-State has only won two home games against an unranked Florida team and a TCU team missing one of its best players.
In that period of time,
the offense has gone silent. Once averaging 82 points per game, which was near the top of the Big 12, K-State has averaged just 69.3 points per game in its last seven games.
It hasn’t helped that guard Markquis Nowell and forward Keyontae Johnson have seemed to lose their early-season thunder. Nowell has been in a prolonged shooting slump since the first Kansas game, shooting a paltry 34% from the field over his last nine games. Johnson has been all right, but he is consistently getting himself into foul trouble, limiting his minutes
on the court.
With Johnson off the floor and Nowell struggling with shooting, the Wildcats seem to lack options to compensate for the losses of these two players.
Forward Nae’Qwan Tomlin has had a nice season offensively, but he is very limited in how he can score. He shoots 24% from 3. He is a guy who primarily scores from the inside.
The same thing can be said about forwards David N’Guessan and Ismael Massoud and guards Desi Sills and Cam Carter. These players are all incredible at their individual roles but
are not go-to scorers when it matters most.
Another culprit has been turnovers. K-State averages a league-high in turnovers at over 14 per game. The carelessness with the ball has killed the Wildcats, as that has been a big factor in its losses to teams like Texas and Texas Tech.
Head Coach Jerome Tang has given them the tools necessary to be a winning basketball team. It comes down to how they will use his tools to get out of this rut and hit a hot streak to finish the season.
Head Coach Jerome Tang looks back at the bench in the 90-78 loss to Kansas on Jan. 31. Since the game, K-State has lost three of its last four games.
1. e Cornerstone Cafe created the _____ Latte to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
2. e Mandela Washington Fellowship will return to K-State in the _____ of 2023.
3. e ve love languages are physical touch, quality time, acts of service, words of _________ and gi giving, according to 5 Love Languages.
4. Men’s basketball is averaging just under _______ points per game in the last seven games.
5. Men’s basketball is averaging over 14 __________ per game.
3. Baseball’s rst opponent is Stephen F. _______.
6. e Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy ____ spoke at the Super Bowl Parade on Wednesday.
7. e goal of Lexe West’s research is to help develop interventions for ______ choice.
8. Unity Nebesniak’s TikTok post called for “equity and _____ now, not later.”
