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MANHATTAN — Jerome Tang and Kansas State basketball keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Tang’s postgame outburst, combined with students in the K-State student section wearing brown paper bags over their heads during the Wildcats’ 91-62 loss to Cincinnati, has gone viral, and several national outlets picked up the story.
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Kansas State basketball, amid a five-game losing streak and 1-10 start to Big 12 play, is starting to get more heat nationally, especially as the temperature underneath Tang’s seat continues to rise after each loss and attention-grabbing postgame press conference.
“The Kansas State situation is now one of the biggest disappointments in Power 5 basketball,” CBS Sports insider Jon Rothstein said after the game. “It is one thing to lose games in the Big 12; it is another thing to show zero, zero resistance, which is what the Wildcats did tonight on their home court. This has been a reoccuring patern for Kansas State; it happened a couple of weeks ago against Iowa State at home.
“I know the Big 12 is the best conference in college basketball, but you had an opponent in Cincinnati that was extremely vulnerable just a couple of weeks ago. Kansas State, right now, is in a real compromising situation, not just from a one-loss perspective, but also in terms of the fight being shown in that program.”
Clips of Tang’s outburst were also featured on SportsCenter and during a three-plus-minute segment on Pardon The Interuption, in which host Tony Kornheiser pointed out that Tang recruited the roster that Tang said didn’t deserve to wear a Kansas State uniform.
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“The team he has right now, he clearly hates,’ Kornheiser said.
“If I was the athletic director or president of Kansas State University, I would call Coach Tang and tell him, ‘You have until the TV trucks get here at 5 o’clock for local news to get down there with something purple and a logo and walk this back,'” Michael Wilbon added. “That’s how long you got, because I will also…
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