KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — PJ Haggerty sat behind a simple table with a backdrop featuring the Kansas State logo behind him. The lights glared as dozens of television cameras focused in on him, eager to hear whatever the All-America guard might say.

He's expected to be the face of the Wildcats this season, one of the highest-profile transfers in the country — just like he was the face of Memphis last season, and Tulsa the year before that, and TCU for a minute that seems like a lifetime ago.

When the NCAA pried open the transfer window in August 2022, allowing players to flow from one school to the next without a redshirt year that had long held such movement in check, it changed the dynamics of college basketball. The introduction of compensation for name, image and likeness added an

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