K-State No-Shows Against Bowling Green, 82-66

The Kansas State Wildcats never showed up, and as a result dropped an absolutely excuseless stinker to the Bowling Green Falcons, 82-66.

This recap is going to get all the effort the Wildcats (5-3) summed up against the visitors (6-2).

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K-State never led. Bowling Green got out to a molasses-slow 7-2 lead, and the two teams more-or-less traded buckets for most of the first half. However, the Falcons closed the half on a 16-4 lead to take a 49-35 lead into the locker room at half.

The Cats committed 4 turnovers in the half and still coughed up 49 points.

It didn’t take long for Bowling Green to eventually stretch the lead out to 17 in the second half. Despite a couple of mini-runs bringing the gap down to as few as 8, K-State never truly threatened – the only thing undetermined would be just how many Bowling Green would win by. The Cats would continue to trip over themselves figuratively-speaking, and the Falcons cruised to a 16-point win.

The Cats committed 6 turnovers for the game and gave up 82 points.

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Bowling Green has not defeated a Power 4 team since 2005. They are picked to finish seventh in the MAC this season.

David Castillo got a start over Elias Rapieque tonight, and turned it into a career-high 22 points. We’re not talking about anyone else tonight. No one deserves it.

BG’s Sam Towns had a great game, with a career-high 27 points, and 8 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals. Javontae Campbell and Javon Ruffin both tossed in 17 apiece.

Three One In The Key:

1) Heart.

We’re talking about one thing tonight. We can lament defense (or lack therof), or rebounding (or lack thereof), or whatever specific aspect of the game we want (that we showed no aptitude for). This team showed no heart tonight. It was a repeat of the crap we saw last season. And the crap of the season before that. Zero heart. Zero on-floor leadership. There’s a lot of talent on the floor at any given point…but no heart. All the early 90+ point games were fools’ gold, and…

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