These two teams don't like each other, stemming back to a game when Michael Beasley was still on the K-State roster and Xavier gave the Wildcats a pretty good whupping.

Kansas State got its revenge earlier this season by winning a slugfest, 71-56. In that game, there was jawing, there was physical play, and there were people flying all over the floor.

You shouldn't expect anything different on Thursday.

K-State's bread and butter is its physicality. The Wildcats are going to get up in your jock on the defensive end. They are going to bump cutters. They are going to crash the glass as hard as anyone in the country. They force you into turning the ball over.

The way K-State operates is that it pretty much gives Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente free rein to do whatever they want on the offensive end. Those two are both capable of going for 30 on a given night, and Frank Martin knows that. And while they have, at times, shot K-State to a win, they are also capable of going 2-of-15 on a given night.

That's where the Wildcat front line comes into play. Martin has a ton of guys on his roster that are big, strong, and athletic. Xavier is going to have to box out, because you cannot let those kids get a free path to a rebound or else the Muskies or going to be on the wrong end of a SportsCenter top 10.