Brendan Hausen started Saturday night with six quick points against Houston in a promising display of 3-point shooting. This did not hold up, and the Wildcats' slim lead in the first minutes quickly spiraled to a blowout.

If Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang didn't already know the gap that separates his Wildcat program from Houston's, he does now.

Houston did anything it wanted, especially on offense, and handed K-State its most lopsided loss of the Jerome Tang era in front of a sparse home crowd.