Kansas State reaped the rewards of its first-ever Big 12 Championship season as a school-record seven players earned All-Big 12 First Team honors Tuesday and head coach Brad Hill was named Coach of the Year for the second time. In addition, the Wildcats took home three other major awards with Ross Kivett voted by the [...]
Kansas State head football coach Bill Snyder has announced that center B.J. Finney, wide receiver Tyler Lockett, linebackers Blake Slaughter and Tre Walker and defensive back Ty Zimmerman have been named team captains for the 2013 season. Finney and Zimmerman will serve as captains for the second straight year, while Lockett, Slaughter and Walker will [...]
Kansas State’s streak of consecutive years of at least one player being taken in the NFL draft has run to 20 after linebacker Arthur Brown was selected in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft Thursday by the Baltimore Ravens. The 20-year streak is currently the second-longest among Big 12 Conference schools, behind only [...]
John Giannini kept calling timeouts as La Salle’s big lead kept slipping away, an 18-point halftime advantage wiped out by fourth-ranked Kansas State’s frantic comeback. The coach’s message every time was simple: Keep playing defense. The Explorers finally answered his challenge. Jerrell Wright made three foul shots in the final 30 seconds, and the No. [...]
Big 12 regular season champion Kansas State was rewarded for its successful 2012-13 season on Sunday night, as the Wildcats earned their 27th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and their fifth in the last six seasons by receiving an at-large bid to the tournament. No. 11/12 Kansas State (27-7, 14-4 Big 12) was selected as [...]
One by one, Kansas players headed to the top step of the ladder to cut down the nets, with Jeff Withey carefully nipping at a piece of nylon and then waving it to the roar of the fans. There was no way the Jayhawks were going to share this celebration. No way they were going [...]
Now the Big 12’s regular-season co-champs will get their chance to settle it all on the court. Rodney McGruder scored 25 points as No. 11 Kansas State beat a sluggish No. 14 Oklahoma State 68-57 in the Big 12 tournament semifinals Friday night, setting up a title showdown on Saturday with No. 7 Kansas, which [...]
It didn’t seem to matter what Rodney McGruder did – fire away over the Texas zone, pull up in the lane or take a pass from Angel Rodriguez down low. There was no way the Longhorns were stopping No. 11 Kansas State’s all-conference senior, who scored 24 points to lead the Wildcats to a 66-49 [...]
Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber earned Big 12 Coach of the Year honors, while Rodney McGruder, Angel Rodriguez and Shane Southwell were named to the Coaches’ All-Conference team, as the league office announced its annual men’s basketball awards on Sunday. McGruder was named to the five-man All-Big 12 First Team and Rodriguez to the [...]
Coach Travis Ford can’t be certain whether NBA prospect Marcus Smart has played his last home game at Oklahoma State. If he did, he went out with one of his typical beyond-the-box-score plays, changing the game and the Big 12 championship picture. Smart scored 21 points, but perhaps none of his plays were as big [...]