KANSAS CITY, MO — When PJ Haggerty was removed from Kansas State basketball's narrow win over Tulsa , the Golden Hurricane went on a run that the Wildcats had to overcome in the final minute. Wildcats coach Jerome Tang admitted afterward that removing his best player from the game wasn't a good decision.

So when Haggerty was dealing with some cramps late in the Wildcats' semifinal game at the Hall of Fame Classic against Mississippi State, Tang didn't move a muscle when Haggerty ran by him, not even acknowledging the coach, en route to checking himself back in.

"I told y'all that I was an idiot for checking him out the last time," Tang laughed. "Come on. Y'all didn't want to see him off the court, did you?"

Tang's right; no one, except Mississippi State, wanted to see Haggerty on the

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