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    The top 10 games of the Jack Hartman Era

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    Jack Hartman presents Ed Nealy the basketball after he set the all-time rebounding record at Kansas State after a game in 1982. Nealy was just one of many all-time greats that Hartman coached during his 16 seasons in Manhattan. Mercury file photo

    By Michael Goens

    Coach Jack Hartman won 295 games and often took Kansas State to the precipice of college basketball’s grand stage. Hartman coached the Wildcats for 16 seasons and pushed six of his teams to the pinnacle’s edge. There were always obstacles too great to surmount: Marquette coach Al McGuire, Louisville great Darrell Griffith, North Carolina star Al Wood and Boston College stud Michael Adams among them.

    Even Norm Stewart (Missouri coach) and John McCullough (Oklahoma guard) threw up roadblocks to Hartman teams’ ability to reach the ultimate level of college hoops: the Final Four. Hartman, the winningest coach in Kansas State basketball history with four regional final appearances, was recently selected for enshrinement to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

    His selection means Hartman joins former Wildcat coaches Jack Gardner and Tex Winter along with two of Hartman’s players, Rolando Blackman and Lon Kruger, in the college hall. With Hartman’s selection, The Manhattan Mercury looks at what, in this writer’s opinion, are the 10 of the best games of the Hartman Era.

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    Kansas State coaching legend and soon-to-be hall of famer Jack Hartman addresses the media during a Big 8 Conference media day during his tenure. Earlier this month, it was announced that the Wildcat legend was selected to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
    Mercury file photos
    K-State’s 1976-77 men’s basketball team, under the direction of soon-to-be hall of Famer Jack Hartman, remains the only Wildcats’ squad in history to win the regular season and conference tournament titles in the same year. Many of the players on this team are featured in the 10 best games of the Hartman Era, picked by The Manhattan Mercury.
    Courtesy K-State Athletics
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