KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas State's players could have celebrated as they walked off the Sprint Center court after walloping Texas 66-49 Thursday evening and no one would have complained. The Wildcats had plenty of reasons to be excited. They had just won their first Big 12 Tournament game in three years and the 11th-ranked team in the country rediscovered their defensive prowess in the process. But this was no time for that. In fact, hardly anyone even cracked a smile. The game was about business and all that mattered was that it was taken care of.

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