http://www.kansascity.com/165/story/430032.html <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Maybe the size 17s will be auctioned for charity or go on e-Bay. But one place they probably won’t end up is in Michael Beasley’s closet.“I don’t know what we’ll do with the shoes,” Kansas State men’s basketball director of operations Andy Assaley said Thursday. “Burn them. Destroy them. Who knows?” Beasley, the freshman standout at K-State, had perhaps the most unproductive game of his life wearing “the shoes” Monday in the Wildcats’ 103-77 loss against Xavier in Cincinnati. Beasley can’t recall a game, at any level, in which he recorded only one basket. And that didn’t occur until just 35 seconds remained. “The shoes don’t make the man. The man makes the shoes,” said Beasley, who finished with five points.. Now, about those shoes … Beasley ripped his regular pair Sunday at practice in Cincinnati while making a cut on the court, according to Assaley. In need of size 17s (Cincinnati retailers didn’t have any when Assaley called them), he phoned Nike, but nobody could be reached. The next call had a Bob Huggins connection. Former University of Cincinnati basketball director of operations Corey Brinn worked under Huggins there before Huggins came to K-State. He had a pair. But it wasn’t that simple. Assaley first contacted K-State assistant athletic director of compliance David Flores to make certain the Wildcats followed the rules in acquiring the shoes. “We had to buy the shoes,” said Assaley, noting a price of $115. There was one problem, however. They had the Cincinnati logo and were trimmed in black and red, the Bearcats’ colors. Beasley placed tape over the logo. The shoes formerly belonged to Asrangue Souleymane, who played on Huggins’ last team at Cincinnati in 2004-05. Souleymane, like Beasley, wore No. 30. Souleymane scored four points the entire season. “Mike put up Souleymane numbers,” Assaley said. Beasley, who’ll be in more familiar shoes Monday when the Wildcats play Savannah State, said: “I just couldn’t get into it (the game). After the first two calls (he got called for charging his first possession and whistled for traveling on the next), it was pretty much downhill from there. But it wasn’t because of the shoes.”</div>
