MANHATTAN, Kansas (KStateSports.com) – The game time and network have been determined for Kansas State’s first round NCAA Tournament matchup with Portland. The game will be contested at 3:30 p.m., on Friday and will air on ESPNEWS.
Tickets for K-State’s first round matchup with Portland are available now at kstatesports.com/tickets. The K-State Athletics Ticket Office opens at 8:30 a.m., and orders can also be made by calling the K-State Ticket Office at (800) 221-CATS or stopping by the ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum. All ticket orders will be distributed as a digital ticket.
K-State and Portland will meet for the first time. The last time the Wildcats faced a member of the West Coast Conference came on December 29, 2007, at Loyola Marymount, a 70-47 K-State win.
The winner of the Kansas State-Portland game will play the winner of the No. 5 Colorado-No. 12 Drake matchup on Sunday, March 24. The top four seeds in the Albany 2 region are: No. 1 Iowa (29-4), No. 2 UCLA (25-6), No. 3 LSU (28-5) and No. 4 Kansas State.