According to college basketball statistician Bart Torvik, K-State has played like a top 25 team over its past five games. He has the Wildcats at No. 20 nationally during that time. K-State is starting to play much better on offense and its defense has also picked up at home.

Kansas State is having its best two-game stretch in conference play this season. Wildcats coach Jerome Tang attributes the dominating performances to the strong scoring defense. Since its Baylor loss,

Coach Jerome Tang has added a mid-season transfer to the Kansas State men’s basketball roster. Tyreek Smith, a 6-foot-6 senior guard who previously played at Texas Tech and Oklahoma State and SMU and Memphis, has enrolled at K-State in time for the start of the spring semester.