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Kansas State Wildcats Coaching change won't alter fortunes
Last season9-19, 2-14 Big 12CoachJim Wooldridge (1st season; 229-147 overall)
Projected starting lineupG Larry Reid, 6-0, Jr.Second-team juco All-America at Northern Oklahoma steered team to national tournament.
G Galen Morrison, 6-0, Sr.
G Quentin Buchanan, 6-7, So.
F Matt Siebrandt, 6-8, So.
F Kelvin Howell, 6-9, Sr.
Top guy off the benchF Travis Reynolds, 6-7, Jr.Numbers will wow no one, but Wildcats know he's a solid defender down low.
Key gamesvs. Illinois (Dec. 2). Illini rolled the Wildcats 81-48 in Champaign last year.at Texas A&M (Jan. 6). If K-State can't hang in this opener, watch out. vs. Kansas (Feb. 28). Never count the Wildcats out of this game, no matter the season.
OutlookIn a word, bleak. Wooldridge, the man who replaces Tom Asbury, spent two years in Chicago under Bulls coach Tim Floyd, so he already knows about long Midwestern cold spells. In a nice symbolic touch, he brings with him the triangle offense, the system devised by K-State legend Tex Winter, who gave school administrators his thumbs up on the new coach. The Wildcats could also run the wishbone or the left-wing lock, and it probably wouldn't make a difference. Unless the four incoming junior-college transfers can do something, there's plenty of heart, just not enough talent for the Wildcats to stop many visitors from taking Manhattan.--Adam Thompson
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