Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang on the start of practices
Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang talks about the official start of basketball practice Tuesday.
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MANHATTAN — Kansas State basketball’s 2024-25 schedule is set, and there is plenty for Wildcat fans to sink their teeth into.
There will be some new twists in the expanded conference schedule, which was announced Thursday by the Big 12 office. With the addition of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah this year, each of the 16 teams will play 20 league games.
The 20 league games are the most ever for K-State, which opens conference play at home on Dec. 30 against Cincinnati and finishes up on March 8 with Iowa State. Six of the Wildcats’ 10 home games take place on weekends, including two Sunday dates when Arizona State visits on Feb. 23 and Colorado on March 2.
K-State will play a home-and-home series with five teams — Kansas, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Arizona State and Cincinnati — while facing each of the others once. They also play host to Houston, Texas Tech, West Virginia, Arizona and Colorado.
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Both Sunflower Showdown games against Kansas this year will be on Saturdays, with K-State heading to Lawrence on Jan. 18, and the Jayhawks visiting Bramlage Coliseum on Feb. 8. The Wildcats have played KU home-and-home every year since 1912 and have met at least once since 1907.
K-State has four back-to-back conference road trips, including visits to national powers Kansas on Jan. 18 and Baylor on Jan. 22. The most challenging home stretch also features KU on Feb. 8 and Arizona on Feb. 11.
Here is how the Wildcats’ full schedule shakes out.
Kansas State basketball 2024-25 schedule
Oct. 29 — Fort Hays State (exhibition)
Nov. 5 — New Orleans
Nov. 9 — Cleveland State
Nov. 14 — LSU
Nov. 19 — Mississippi Valley State
Nov. 22 — vs. George Washington (Paradise Jam)
Nov. 23/24 — vs. Liberty or Louisiana (Paradise Jam)
Nov. 25 — vs. TBD (Paradise Jam)
Dec. 1 — UAPB
Dec. 7 — at St. John’s (Big East/Big 12 Battle)
Dec. 17 — vs. Drake (T-Mobile Center, Kansas City)
Dec. 21 — at Wichita State
Dec. 30 — Cincinnati
Jan. 4 — at TCU
Jan. 7 — at Oklahoma State
Jan. 11 — Houston
Jan. 14 — Texas Tech
Jan. 18 — at Kansas
Jan. 22 — at Baylor
Jan. 25 — West Virginia
Jan. 29 — Oklahoma State
Feb. 1 — at Iowa State
Feb. 4 — at Arizona State
Feb. 8 — Kansas
Feb. 11 — Arizona
Feb. 15 — at BYU
Feb. 17 — at Utah
Feb. 23 — Arizona State
Feb. 26 — at UCF
March 2 — Colorado
March 5 — at Cincinnati
March 8 — Iowa State
March 11-15 — Big 12 Tournament (T-Mobile Center, Kansas City)
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.
