DALLAS (AP) – Markis McDuffie had 15 points and nine rebounds as Wichita State defeated SMU 67-55 on Sunday.

Dexter Dennis had 12 points and eight rebounds for Wichita State (15-13, 8-8 American Athletic Conference). Jamarius Burton added 10 points. Erik Stevenson had six assists for the visitors.

Feron Hunt had 14 points for the Mustangs (13-15, 5-11). Jahmal McMurray added 13 points. Ethan Chargois had 13 points and eight rebounds.

The Shockers improve to 2-0 against the Mustangs on the season. Wichita State defeated SMU 85-83 on Jan. 30. Wichita State plays East Carolina at home on Tuesday. SMU matches up against Houston on the road on Thursday.

  BOYS PREP BASKETBALL 
 
     Mission Valley 53, Hillsboro 51 
 
     Class 1A Sub-State 
 
     Championship 
 
     Berean Academy 52, Olpe 40 
 
     St. John 36, Attica 34 
 
     Class 2A Sub-State 
 
     Championship
 
     Hutchinson Trinity 66, Medicine Lodge 43 
 
     Ness City 66, Lakin 58 
 
     Plainville 69, Ellis 56 
 
     Class 3A Sub-State 
 
     Championship 
 
     Hays-TMP-Marian 60, Smoky Valley 35 
 
     Class 5A Sub-State 
 
     Championship 
 
     Salina Central 45, Wichita Heights 41 
 
     Wichita Bishop Carroll 62, McPherson 49
 
     GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL
 
     Class 1A Sub-State 
 
     Championship
 
     Central Plains 69, Rawlins County 13 
 
     Hanover 55, St. John's Beloit-Tipton 34 
 
     Olpe 55, Caldwell 26 
 
     South Central 53, Pretty Prairie 45 
 
     South Gray 41, Spearville 40 
 
     Waverly 53, Argonia 50 
 
     Class 2A Sub-State 
 
     Championship 
 
     Garden Plain 34, Conway Springs 28 
 
     Trego 42, Plainville 26 
 
     Class 3A Sub-State 
 
     Championship
 
     Clay Center 26, Riley County 21 
 
     Columbus 63, Cherryvale 46 
 
     Nemaha Central 46, Marysville 31 
 
     Norton 51, Russell 49 
 
     Scott City 50, Cimarron 37 
 
     Class 4A Sub-State(equals) 
 
     Championship(equals) 
 
     Abilene 43, Wichita Trinity 27 
 
     Baldwin 49, Parsons 18 
 
     Bishop Miege 70, Paola 20 
 
     Circle 50, Pratt 33 
 
     Eudora 36, Labette County 17 
 
     KC Piper 58, Chanute 26 
 
     Ulysses 35, Wamego 21 
 
     Class 6A Sub-State
 
     Championship 
 
     Derby 60, Lawrence 40 
 
     Topeka 51, Manhattan 42 
 
     Washburn Rural 50, Wichita South 39

Kansas State Athletics

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Paced by a game-high 20 points from senior Dean Wade, No. 16/15 Kansas State remained in a tie for first place in the Big 12 with a 66-60 victory over Baylor in front of 9,855 fans at Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday night.

Behind Wade’s 20 points, four Wildcats scored in double-figures, including 16 points from senior guard Kamau Stokes, 14 points from junior forward Xavier Sneed and 10 points from senior guard Barry Brown, Jr. In total, the senior class combined for 46 of K-State’s 66 points, while Wade registered his 19thcareer game with 20+ points.

K-State (22-7, 12-4 Big 12) is now 11-1 this season when four or more players scored in double figures.

The Wildcats remains tied for the lead in the Big 12 with No. 11/11 Texas Tech (24-6, 12-4 Big 12), while winning their sixth consecutive game against Baylor dating back to January 2017.

K-State led for nearly 35 minutes of Saturday’s contest, while the game changed leads only four times despite a tightly-contested affair throughout. The Wildcats led 41-40 with 13:13 to play before using a 12-1 run to create some separation and take a 12-point lead (53-41) with just under 9 minutes remaining.

Baylor (19-10, 10-6 Big 12) closed to within 59-55 on a 3-pointer by senior King McClure with 2:51 left, but K-State was able to close it out from the free throw line, hitting 7 of its last 12 attempts.

The Wildcats connected on 44.7 percent (21-of-47) from the field, including 29.4 (5-of-17) from 3-point range, and knocked down 63.3 percent (19-of-30) from the free throw line. The Bears hit on 47.7 percent (21-of-44) of its field goals, including 37.5 percent (6-of-16) from the beyond the arc.

Stokes moved into third all-time in K-State history in assists on Saturday, tallying 5 assists to up his total to 399 in his career. His 399 career assists are third to only Steve Henson (582) and Jacob Pullen (455).

Three Baylor players scored in double figures led by 13 from sophomore guard Mario Kegler, who shot 6-of-10 from the floor with 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block and 1 steal in 30 minutes of play. Senior guard Makai Mason and freshman guard Jared Butler added 11 and 10 points, respectively.

HOW IT HAPPENED
With Baylor claiming the early lead, K-State bounced back after the first media timeout with a 9-0 run that started with a 3-pointer from senior Kamau Stokes. After the Stokes 3-pointer, fellow Dean Wade and Stokes alternated baskets, including a jumper from Wade that gave K-State a 13-7 lead with 12:56 left in the half.

After the under-12 timeout, Wade extended the K-State run to 13-0 on a feed from sophomore guard Mike McGuirl, as Wade collected the pass and threw down a dunk. On the next possession, junior forward Xavier Sneed nailed a corner 3-pointer to make the score 20-7 with 10:30 remaining in the half.

During the run, the Wildcat defense held Baylor scoreless for 7:31. The strong defense combined with a spark offensively gave K-State its largest lead of the half at 24-9 with 9:05 left in the half.

Baylor responded to the K-State run with a run of its own, as the Bears spouted off a 9-0 run to bring the score to single-digits at 24-18 with 6:18 left in the half.

Leading by 4 with under two minutes remaining, Wade scored 5-straight points for the Wildcats, including an and-one to give K-State a 32-25 lead with 1:10 remaining. The Wildcats would go on to take a 32-30 lead at the break.

Through the first half of play, Wade, Brown and Stokes accounted for 23 of the team’s 32 points, including a game-high 11 points from Wade. As a team, K-State shot 45.8 percent (11-of-24) from the field, while forcing Baylor into 10 first-half turnovers.

The start of the second half favored the Bears, as the Wildcats hit on just 2 of their first 7 shots of the field, while Baylor claimed its first lead since the 16:31 mark of the first half, scoring on a jumper from senior guard King McClure to bring the score to 37-36 with 15:13 left in the game.

Like he did in the first half, Wade found another crease to the basket in the second-half, which led to another slam dunk, this time giving K-State a 43-40 lead with 12:53 remaining. On the next K-State possession, Sneed knocked down a 3-pointer from the corner to extend the K-State lead to 46-40 with 12:10 left in the game.

The dunk by Wade energized the Wildcats, as K-State went on an 10-1 run to extend the K-State lead back to double-digits at 53-41 with 8:48 remaining.

With under 3-minutes remaining, Baylor struck on a McClure 3-pointer to bring the score to 59-55 at the 2:51 mark, notching a 6-0 run for the Bears. Within the next minute of play, Sneed capped 3-of-4 from the free throw line to give K-State a 62-55 advantage with 1:53 remaining.

In the final minute of play, Baylor was able to climb back within 3 points after a pair of missed free throws. With 19.5 seconds left, Stokes was sent to the line, where he capitalized on a pair of free throws to bring the score to 65-60. Brown would hit one more free throw in the final seconds to give K-State the 66-60 victory.

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Dean Wade – Senior Dean Wade registered his fourth 20-point game of his season and 19thof his career, by scoring 20 points on 9-of-15 from the floor in 39 minutes of play.

STAT OF THE GAME
21 – K-State scored 21 points off 19 Baylor turnovers, which marked the 10thtime (fourth in Big 12) this season that the Wildcats have scored 20 or more points off opponent turnovers.

SEASON RECORD UPDATE
K-State 22-7 (12-4 Big 12)
Baylor 19-10 (10-6 Big 12)

Kansas Athletics

STILLWATER, Okla. – Trailing by three points with four minutes remaining in regulation, Kansas held Oklahoma State scoreless through the final buzzer as the No. 15/16 Jayhawks outlasted the Cowboys, 72-67, Saturday afternoon inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. Redshirt-junior Dedric Lawson scored 20 points and added a season-high-tying 15 rebounds to collect his 18th double-double, while freshman guard Quentin Grimes connected on four 3-pointers en route to a 17-point performance.

The win moved the Jayhawks to 22-7 on the year and to 11-5 in league play, keeping them within a game of the Big 12 lead. Oklahoma State fell to 10-19 in its 2018-19 season and 3-13 in conference play.

With the Jayhawks trailing by five points, 62-57, with under six minutes remaining in the game, the KU defense came up tough down the back stretch to help the Crimson and Blue close out a key road victory. Freshman Ochai Agbaji cut his team’s deficit to two points with one of his 3-pointers on the day, before Devon Dotson knotted the score up 30 seconds later with a drive to the basket, pulling the two teams level at 62-62 with just over five minutes remaining.

Oklahoma State’s Curtis Jones, who was one of two Cowboys to lead his team with 19 points, swished a fade away jumper from the top of the key to put his team back on top as the clock ticked under five minutes. On OSU’s next possession, Cameron McGriff, the other Cowboy to tally 19 points, converted on an and-one opportunity to give his team a three-point advantage, 67-64, with 4:04 remaining in regulation.

McGriff’s free throw would be the Cowboys’ final point of the game.

After a pair of empty possessions by both teams, Grimes knocked down one his biggest 3-pointers of the season, pulling the two teams level for the fifth and final time on the day, 67-67, with 2:42 to play.

Kansas kept the Cowboys off the board on their next possession and before Grimes drove to the basket and drew a foul on the Jayhawks’ next trip down the floor. The freshman out of The Woodlands, Texas, hit 1-of-2 from the charity stripe to put KU ahead with 98 ticks on the clock to go.

The Jayhawk defense came up with two more stops, which included forcing an OSU shot clock violation as the game entered its final minute. Lawson and Agbaji then hit a pair of three throws apiece to give their team the cushion it needed to close out the 72-67 victory, just KU’s second win in Stillwater in its last six tries.

The Kansas freshmen got the Jayhawks out to a quick start after the opening tip-off, scoring each of the team’s 19 points. Grimes contributed seven points in the opening seven minutes, including his 3-pointer at the 13:02 mark, to put Kansas ahead 14-8. But shortly thereafter, the league’s top 3-point shooting team began to live up to its billing. The Cowboys hit 7-of-9 shots, including three 3-pointers, during a four-minute stretch to explode on a 13-0 run. The OSU spurt gave the home side a seven-point lead, 21-14, with just over eight minutes to play in the half.

Kansas responded with a 12-6 run to pull itself within a point of the Cowboys. Lawson tallied six points while Grimes and Agbaji each connected from 3-point range as KU got to within 27-26 less than three minutes later.

OSU hit two more triples in the next two minutes to regain the momentum. Both offenses cooled however, over the final minutes of the opening frame as the Cowboys took a 37-32 lead into the halftime locker room.

Kansas blitzed Oklahoma State after the restart to get itself back in control of the game. After OSU’s Thomas Dziagwa netted a jumper in the paint to put his team on top 39-32, the Jayhawks erupted on a 16-2 run to turn a seven-point deficit into a seven-point lead. Including his two free throws at the 13:22 mark to give KU a 48-41 lead, Lawson added seven points during the run to go along with threes from Grimes and Agbaji.

But once again, Oklahoma State’s prowess from long range got the Cowboys back into the game. OSU hit four 3-pointers over the next three minutes, including Jones, who connected on one of his four triples on the day to tie the game at 55-55 just over midway through the second half.

OSU built a five-point lead twice over the next two minutes, but the KU defense finally managed to put a clamp on the Cowboy shooters. Oklahoma State went 2-of-9, while Kansas outscored OSU 15-5 over the final six minutes of regulation.

Lawson collected his Big 12-leading 18th double-double after posting a game-high 20 points and 15 rebounds. The Memphis, Tennessee, native also was perfect from the free throw line, hitting each of his nine tries from the stripe. Grimes was next on the KU scoresheet with 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting and a 4-of-7 clip from 3-point range. Agbaji rounded out the Jayhawks’ double-figure scorers with 11 points to go along with five rebounds and two assists.