MANHATTAN — Just when Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang was about to add some needed depth for the Big 12 schedule, the Wildcats suffered another blow.

Veteran guard Ques Glover, out since hurting his knee in the Wildcats’ exhibition game against Emporia State back in November, reaggravated the injury in practice this week, possibly ending his season.

“He came back, we came back, and we had a full team out there at practice and it looked pretty good,” Tang said of Glover following the Wildcats’ 62-55 victory over Chicago State on Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. “We worked on some things that we can do with two veteran guards out there that you really can’t do when you don’t have the guard depth.

“It looked pretty good for three, three-and-a-half days and then he had, I don’t know if it was a misstep, a bump or whatever, but it was just one of those freak things. Same knee, same issue.”

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Glover, a 6-foot graduate transfer from Samford who also played two years at Florida, was on crutches for Tuesday’s game. At Samford, he averaged 19.2 points as a junior and 14.7 last year as a senior.

Tang did not sound optimistic about Glover’s prognosis going forward.

“I don’t know all the details yet. We have this rule on our staff, no bad news on game day, so they didn’t tell me the whole thing,” Tang said. “And I knew it was bad news because nobody would tell me what the MRI said.

“Just walking up here (to the postgame news conference), I was told that it’s a possible surgery. They didn’t give me the whole detail of everything yet.”

Glover shot 37.8% from 3-point range last year at Samford. The Wildcats made just 3 of 14 from outside the arc against Chicago State.

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The coaches had deliberately taken their time in putting Glover back on the court in order to make sure his knee had fully healed.

“I hurt for him, because he put in so much work in rehab,” Tang said. “I do feel like I’m glad we took as long as we did to bring him back. He could have been back two weeks ago, but had we rushed him, and this happened, then we would have been sitting around going, ‘Oh man, we rushed him back.’

“But we gave him every opportunity for that thing to fully heal, and for some reason it didn’t, or something else happened, and so now it’s on to the next thing. What’s the next thing he has to do? What’s the next thing we have to do?”

The Wildcats now open conference play at 5 p.m. Saturday at home against Central Florida without two key players that started practices on the roster. In addition to Glover, they lost senior forward Nae’Qwan Tomlin in preseason when he was dismissed from the team following his arrest on a disorderly conduct charge in October.

“I’m proud of our nonconference, to go 10-3 and not have two guys that you thought were going to be contributors for you, and dudes just figuring out a way,” Tang said.

Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.