{"id":135083,"date":"2026-02-16T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:23:09","slug":"game-thread-baylor-mens-basketball-travels-to-manhattan-to-face-tang-less-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135083\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread: Baylor Men&#8217;s Basketball Travels to Manhattan to Face Tang-Less Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN, Kansas\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Baylor (13-12, 3-9) travels to Kansas State (10-15, 1-11) on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. CT, at Bramlage Coliseum,\u00a0as the Wildcats will be playing their first game since parting ways with head coach Jerome Tang. The game will be televised on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>Computer Models<\/p>\n<p>\tTorvik:\u00a0Baylor (48), Kansas State (103)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrediction: Baylor 84, Kansas State 82<\/p>\n<p>\tKenPom:\u00a0Baylor (45), Kansas State (101)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrediction: Baylor 84, Kansas State 81<\/p>\n<p>\tHaslametrics: Baylor (47), Kansas State (104)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrediction: Baylor 82, Kansas State 78<\/p>\n<p>\tEvan Miyakawa: Baylor (40), Kansas State (101)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrediction: Baylor 85, Kansas State 77<\/p>\n<p>Projected Lineups<\/p>\n<p>Baylor Starters<\/p>\n<p>\tGuard:\u00a0Obi Agbim (5Sr.) 6-3, 185 (11 ppg; 3 asst)<br \/>\n\tGuard:\u00a0Isaac Williams IV (So.) 6-1, 190 (10 ppg; 3 asst)<br \/>\n\tGuard:\u00a0Tounde Yessoufou (Fr.) 6-5, 215 (18 ppg; 6 reb; 2 steals)<br \/>\n\tGuard:\u00a0Cameron Carr (RSo.) 6-5, 175 (19 ppg; 6 reb; 3 asst)<br \/>\n\tCenter: Caden Powell (Sr.) 6-9, 225 (7 ppg; 7 reb)<\/p>\n<p>Baylor Bench<\/p>\n<p>\tForward:\u00a0Michael Rataj (Sr.) 6-8, 230 (8 ppg; 5 reb; 2 asst)<br \/>\n\t*Forward:\u00a0Dan Skillings\u00a0(Sr.) 6-7, 200 (10 ppg; 7 reb; 2 asst)\u00a0<br \/>\n\tCenter: James Nnaji (Fr.)\u00a07-0 250 (2\u00a0ppg; 3\u00a0reb)<\/p>\n<p>*questionable with knee injury*<\/p>\n<p>Kansas State Starters<\/p>\n<p>\tGuard: PJ Haggerty (Jr.)\u00a06-4, 195 (23 ppg; 5 reb; 4 asst)<br \/>\n\tGuard: David Castillo (So.)\u00a06-1, 180 (11 ppg)<br \/>\n\tGuard: Nate Johnson (Sr.)\u00a06-3, 215 (11 ppg; 5 reb; 4 asst)<br \/>\n\tForward: Taj Manning (Jr.)\u00a06-7, 230 (4 ppg; 5 reb)<br \/>\n\tForward: Khamari McGriff (Sr.)\u00a06-9, 230 (10 ppg; 4 reb)<\/p>\n<p>Kansas State Bench<\/p>\n<p>\tGuard: CJ Jones (Sr.)\u00a06-5, 195 (3 ppg; 2 reb)<br \/>\n\tForward: Dorin Buca (Jr.)\u00a07-2, 255 (3 ppg; 4 reb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kansas\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Baylor (13-12, 3-9) travels to Kansas State (10-15, 1-11) on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. CT,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[57395,2725,57397,4567,57396,57394,52391,75,84,83,9,24,63,57393],"class_list":{"0":"post-135083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-2-17-2026","9":"tag-2725","10":"tag-ashley-hodge","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-baylor","13":"tag-baylor-at-kansas-state-basketball","14":"tag-kansas-state","15":"tag-manhattan","16":"tag-manhattan-headlines","17":"tag-manhattan-news","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-sicem365"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}