Kansas State ( 8-3 ) returns from its holiday break on Saturday to play Tulane ( 7-6 ) as part of a tripleheader in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at the Barclays Center at 4 p.m. CT. The arena is the home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and NHL’s New York Islanders.

The Wildcats and green Wave will play the second game of the festival with St. John’s and Columbia tipping off first at 1:30 p.m. CT, and VCU and Boston College capping the event at 6:30 p.m. CT.

This will be Kansas State’s first game in Brooklyn in more than 63 years, since playing a five-game series with Long Island and Famed head coach Clair Bee from 1948 to 1951. The last of those match-ups came in Brooklyn on Dec. 2, 1950 – a 60-59 LIU win.

This will be the fourth meeting between K-State and Tulane, and the first since the Green Wave defeated the Wildcats 55-53 in the 1993 NCAA South Regional First Round.