Looks like we're at K-State on Nov. 13th:

Sources: Kansas State will host Bowling Green as part of its 2025-26 non-conference schedule. The date is set for Monday, December 1st.

Good time for a refresher on the #KState schedule with three games remaining. #Big12 #MACtion pic.twitter.com/cJnqjEeWVH

— Rocco Miller (@RoccoMiller8) July 7, 2025

Very winnable road game for us. K State lost to the likes of Wichita St, Ok St., TCU and Colorado, all 86 and higher on KenPom. For some reason they seem to have not lost a lot of players to the portal, if you believe the ESPN roster
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2306/kansas-state-wildcats

Beating K State in Manhattan is tough, even for good experienced teams. This is going to be a very tough game for us to win.

Go Bears!

With today's release of the Empire Classic matchups, we are now at 4 non-conference games that have been released:

11/13 @ Kansas St.
11/18 Presbyterian
11/21 Sacramento St.
11/25 UCLA (@ Chase Center)

barsad said:

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Very winnable road game for us. K State lost to the likes of Wichita St, Ok St., TCU and Colorado, all 86 and higher on KenPom. For some reason they seem to have not lost a lot of players to the portal, if you believe the ESPN roster
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2306/kansas-state-wildcats

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They were #65 in Ken Pom and while they lost to a few teams #86 and higher, we were #110 and they also beat teams #50 and lower. This will be comparable to many of our ACC road games last year. We were 1-9 on the road in the ACC last year. We also lost at Missouri and Vanderbilt. Will we be improved from last year? That is the big question.

barsad said:

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Very winnable road game for us. K State lost to the likes of Wichita St, Ok St., TCU and Colorado, all 86 and higher on KenPom. For some reason they seem to have not lost a lot of players to the portal, if you believe the ESPN roster
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2306/kansas-state-wildcats

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I'm going to go ahead and say that this roster is highly inaccurate considering it includes Dai Dai Ames, who was last at Kansas State in '23/24 and who will be playing for us next season.

ManBearLion123 said:

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barsad said:

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Very winnable road game for us. K State lost to the likes of Wichita St, Ok St., TCU and Colorado, all 86 and higher on KenPom. For some reason they seem to have not lost a lot of players to the portal, if you believe the ESPN roster
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2306/kansas-state-wildcats

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I'm going to go ahead and say that this roster is highly inaccurate considering it includes Dai Dai Ames, who was last at Kansas State in '23/24 and who will be playing for us next season.

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The Cal roster on ESPN still has Askew, Newell , Bowser, Brown, Celestine and Okafor. What a joke! Of course it is a 27 man roster. The Worldwide Sports Leader!
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/25

I only wish Cal was relevant enough in basketball that ESPN would feel compelled to fix that posted roster. For that matter, I wish somebody on the Cal AD staff who has "media" as part of their job description checked the posted roster on ESPN to ensure it's accurate. Silly me . . . expecting people to do their d@mn jobs.

Kansas State has only a partial roster posted on its website, while the 2025-26 NCAA Scholarship Tracker (Google spreadsheet) has not updated CJ Jones withdrawing from the portal and returning, and includes a couple of other errors.

So here's the exclusive, I guess: the Kansas State Wildcats 2025-26 Roster.

Last year of eligibility

6-5 guard CJ Jones (18.8 mpg in 2024-25)

6-7 forward Marcus Johnson (31.4 mpg at Bowling Green)
6-3 guard Nate Johnson (30.2 mpg at Akron)
6-8 forward Khamari McGriff (19.3 mpg at UNC Wilmington)
6-8 wing Tyreek Smith (19.2 mpg at SMU, 2023-24)

2 years of eligibility

6-6 guard Mobi Ikegwuruka (8.0 mpg)
6-7 wing Taj Manning (2.6 mpg)

6-7 guard Abdi Bashir Jr (33.2 mpg at Monmouth)
6-3 guard PJ Haggerty (36.6 mpg at Memphis)

3 years of eligibility

6-1 guard David Castillo (10.0 mpg)

4 years of eligibility

6-6 guard Andrej Kostic (Serbia)
6-8 forward Elias Rapieque (Germany)
6-1 guard Exavier Wilson (USA)

6-10 center Stephen Osei (21.2 mpg at Casper JUCO; will redshirt 2025-26)