Well, it's always good to welcome on our friend Tim Fitzgerald of Go Powercat,

covering, of course, the Kansas State Wildcats.

I'm Pete Mundo, we're Heartland College Sports Weekly.

Part of Heartlandcollecologistsports.com.

Tim, let's just put a bow on hoops before we get to some offseason football

and talk about spring ball. Bruce Weber has kept his job. That was not a surprise.

We knew that a little bit through the season. He was going to keep his job based on what

Gene Taylor had said. But where is the fan base on Bruce Weber? And I got to imagine that next year is what?

NCAA tournament appearance or bust? Is that fair?

Well, you would think so. I mean, you know, the problem is we just don't know what the

parameters have been set by Gene Taylor. But Bruce has kind of set that.

He's mentioned in an interview that they need to get to the tournament next year.

And I think most of us would agree with that.

I mean, anything less than that just seems a huge compromise after these past two seasons.

So they went into the portal, which was a big change for him.

He does, you know, he's taken a few transfers, but never use it as a base of a recruiting

tool.

And he did that this year.

So that offered some hope.

And the question is, if they've improved, have they improved enough?

Because there's a giant wasteland of teams between where K-State

was and an NCAA tournament bid. They've got a lot of ground to cover.

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