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The Kansas State men’s basketball team was far from full strength during its last two trips to the NCAA Tournament.Dean Wade, one of the best players in school history, broke his foot days before the postseason arrived in both 2018 and 2019. Talk about bad luck. It was a cruel twist of fate that severely limited the Wildcats not once but twice during March Madness.For that reason, K-State fans still ask hypothetical questions about those two seasons. The main one: What if Wade stayed healthy?Kamau Stokes, who played point guard for those teams, is happy to provide an answer.“We definitely would have won the NCAA Tournament,” Stokes said during a wide-ranging interview you can listen to on the SportsBeat KC podcast. “For sure. Absolutely, no question.”K-State came close to winning it all even without Wade in 2018. That season, Barry Brown and Stokes led the Wildcats to wins over Creighton, UMBC and Kentucky on their way to the Elite Eight before bowing out against Loyola-Chicago.With a healthy Wade back in the