Pair of national CBS games highlight K-State’s 2019-20 Big 12 basketball schedule
The Kansas State basketball team appears to be gaining respect at the national level.
Coming off an Elite Eight and a shared Big 12 championship in back-to-back seasons, the Wildcats will play a pair of conference basketball games on CBS next season.
Both games will be played on Saturday afternoons in February at Bramlage Coliseum. The network will broadcast K-State’s home game against rival Kansas nationally at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 29, as well as its home game with Texas one week earlier.
The last Wildcats regular season game on CBS was in 1998 at Kansas, according to K-State records. They have never played a regular season game at Bramlage Coliseum on the network.
K-State loses Barry Brown, Kamau Stokes and Dean Wade this season, but they appear ready to reload behind senior wing Xavier Sneed, junior guard Cartier Diarra and a strong freshman class.
The Wildcats will play six conference games on ESPN+, the new streaming home for Big 12 sporting events, one game on the Longhorn Network and the other nine on ESPN or ESPN2. K-State plays a Big Monday game at home against Baylor on Feb. 3.
ESPN+ is a $4.99 per month subscription streaming service that can be viewed on a mobile phone or tablet, or through a device that plays streaming content on a television, like Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast, Apple TV or others.
K-State will open Big 12 action on the road against Oklahoma on Jan. 4 and conclude the conference slate at home against Iowa State on March 7.
K-State’s 2019-20 basketball schedule
Date | Opponent | Time | TV |
Friday, Oct. 25 | Emporia State (exh.) | 8 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Wednesday, Oct. 30 | Washburn (exh.) | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Tuesday, Nov. 5 | North Dakota State | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Nov. 9 | at UNLV | 3 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Wednesday, Nov. 13 | Monmouth | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Tuesday, Nov. 19 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Monday, Nov. 25 | vs. Pittsburgh* | 5 p.m. | FS1 |
Wednesday, Nov. 27 | vs. Bradley or Northwestern* | 5 or 7:30 p.m. | FS1 |
Monday, Dec. 2 | Florida A&M | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Dec. 7 | Marquette | 8 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Wednesday, Dec. 11 | Alabama State | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Dec. 14 | vs. Mississippi State** | 10:30 a.m. | ESPNU |
Saturday, Dec. 21 | vs. Saint Louis*** | 6 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Sunday, Dec. 29 | Tulsa | 5 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Jan. 4 | at Oklahoma | 3 or 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Tuesday, Jan. 7 | TCU | 8 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Saturday, Jan. 11 | at Texas | TBA | LHN |
Tuesday, Jan. 14 | Texas Tech | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Jan. 18 | West Virginia | 1 p.m. | ESPNU |
Tuesday, Jan. 21 | at Kansas | 6 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Saturday, Jan. 25 | at Alabama**** | 5 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Wednesday, Jan. 29 | Oklahoma | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Feb. 1 | at West Virginia | 1 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Monday, Feb. 3 | Baylor | 8 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Saturday, Feb. 8 | at Iowa State | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Tuesday, Feb. 11 | Oklahoma State | 8 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Saturday, Feb. 15 | at TCU | 4 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Wednesday, Feb. 19 | at Texas Tech | 8 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Saturday, Feb. 22 | Texas | 1 p.m. | CBS |
Tuesday, Feb. 25 | at Baylor | 7 p.m. | ESPN+ |
Saturday, Feb. 29 | Kansas | 12:30 p.m. | CBS |
Wednesday, March 4 | at Oklahoma State | 8 p.m. | ESPN/2/U |
Saturday, March 7 | Iowa State | 3 p.m. | ESPN+ |
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*at Fort Myers (Florida) Tipoff; **at Newark, New Jersey; ***at the Sprint Center, Kansas City; ****SEC/Big 12 Challenge
This story was originally published September 18, 2019 at 2:30 PM.