Kansas State basketball vs UCF: prediction score, scouting report for Wednesday’s match

The season from top to bottom of the Kansas state basketball team struck another Sunday with a two-digit defeat at Arizona State.

The Wildcats (13-14, 7-9 Big 12) will try to bounce back and end a sequence of three consecutive defeats on Wednesday when they have reached the road for a match at 6 p.m. with the center of Florida (14- 13, 5-11) with financial Arena in Orlando.

The current skid of K-State followed a sequence of six consecutive victories and practically eliminated the Wildcats from the NCAA tournament to jump an improbable championship of the Big 12 tournament. It started with consecutive losses in Brigham Young (80- 65) and at UTAH (74-69).

The Wildcats were without starting Coleman Hawkins during the 66-54 defeat against Arizona State and were never in the match after the Sun Devils scored the first seven points of the second period to rely on a six-point half-time advantage.

The center of Florida won a 76-72 victory at home Sunday against Utah.

Here are three things to know, plus a prediction, for Wednesday’s match:

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The state of the undefeated kansas against the UCF

K-State leads the series of all time with UCF 3-0 and won the only conference match last year in Manhattan, 77-52, in the first year of Knights as members of the Big 12.

K-State also beaten UCF in Coliseum Bramlage in 2003 (71-59). Although this is the first meeting at Add Financial Arena, the other victory of the Wildcats came to Orlando, a decision of 73-71 in the former Classic Spice.

A more in -depth look at the UCF knights

Johnny Dawkins is in his ninth year as a UCF coach and led the Knights to a 17-16 record with a 7-11 league brand last year in their first Big 12 season.

The Knights’ victory Sunday against Utah ended a sequence of seven consecutive defeats.

Junior Wing Keyshawn Hall, a transfer from George Mason, leads UCF by scoring with 18.8 points per game and bouncing with 6.9. Guardian Darius Johnson has an average of 15 points and 4.2 assists, the transfer of the UTSA of the fifth year Jordan Ivy-Curry 13.6 points and the first year center of 7 feet 2, Moustapha Thiam, 10, 3 points.

Will K-State become small?

K-State coach Jerome Tang decided that his best bet against Arizona State in the absence of Hawkins was to go with four guards. The safeguard leader CJ Jones took the place of Hawkins alongside Dug McDaniel, Brendan Hausen, Max Jones and striker David N’Gussan.

N’Guessan experienced a big match with 20 points and 13 rebounds, and CJ Johnson scored 10 points during his first departure Big 12, but not much else for the Wildcats in attack because they fired 19,2 % on a 3 -point range.

Big Man Ugo Onyenso and Wing Mobi Ikegwuruka combined for 32 1/2 minutes of the bench but were not really a factor in attack with two points each. Wildcats must either get better from the perimeter or obtain more production of these two against the UCF.

Prediction: Kansas State 77, UCF 76

The UCF is the worst defensive team of the league, granting 84.6 points per game at a conference. The knights are also the latter on the sidelines of rebound, which should relieve the burden of K-State with Hawkins out of the range. Give a light edge to the Wildcats even if they are in digital disadvantage.

Arne Green is based in Salina and covers the sports of Kansas State University for the Gannett network. It can be reached at granted@gannett.com or on x (formerly twitter) at @arnegreen.

This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Kansas State basketball vs UCF: screening report, prediction