by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV One year ago to this day, K-State’s basketball team was 13-11 and a week away from a crippling five-game losing streak that would erase any thoughts of postseason play. Throw in a less-than-competitive loss in Kansas City to West Virginia and Bruce Weber’s final team finished 13-17. Three straight losing seasons, plus mass transfers and a new coaching staff led to the Wildcats being picked to finish dead last in the toughest league in America. That seemed like a possibility, although many in K-State circles believed this team would be able to…
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by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse LUBBOCK, Texas — Sitting to the right of his teammate Desi Sills, K-State point guard Markquis Nowell spoke with a tone of anger, frustration and most of all self-disappointment as he reflected on his play from the No. 12 Wildcats in their 71-63 defeat to Texas Tech on Saturday. Kansas State’s (19-6, 7-5) loss to Texas Tech isn’t a good one on the Wildcats’ already solid NCAA Tournament resume. The Red Raiders have won just two games in league play, including Saturday’s win over the No. 12 team nationally. Texas Tech has only 13 wins overall on the season.…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV No. 12 K-State traveled to Lubbock on Saturday looking to keep pace with Baylor, Kansas and Iowa State in the Big 12 standings, just one game back of Texas. Their first half against Texas Tech didn’t give any suggestions that would be the case though. K-State led 17-12 midway through the half, but after achieving their largest lead Texas Tech went on a 21-9 run to finish the half. A good chunk of which was spurred from more turnovers by Markquis Nowell, who had three in the first half, and also some…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse College conferences have a lot of similarities to middle school cafeterias if you really think about it. The Big Ten and SEC can be seen as the rich, popular kids with all the newest apparel while the ACC, Big 12 and Pac 12 are all cool enough to avoid the table where spitballs are shot across the lunch trays. Yet, within each conference — or lunch table in this analogy — there’s the leader of the group that everybody is trying their darndest to call their best friend. In the…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV With this year’s Super Bowl on the horizon, it got me thinking about who the most recent Wildcats to win the Super Bowl were. So below, the last five K-Staters to hoist the Lombardi Trophy will be listed with some notes on their season and appearance in the big game. Of note, there will be no Wildcats in this year’s Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. BYRON PRINGLE (CHIEFS) – SUPER BOWL LIV Byron Pringle’s first season on the field for Kansas City resulted in a…
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by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer MANHATTAN, Kan. — Seven games remain on the regular season schedule for the Kansas State Wildcats and first-year head coach Jerome Tang. But with those games on the schedule and more to come depending on the Wildcats’ success in the postseason, senior guard Markquis Nowell has already put together a performance surpassing anything done in Manhattan before. On Tuesday night, the 5-foot-8 guard tallied a game-high 18 points and seven assists in an 82-61 victory over No. 17 TCU, the latter accomplishment breaking the Kansas State single-season record for assists. Nowell’s seventh assist of the night — and 187th…
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer The Kansas State Wildcats got back into the win column after dropping their first home game of the season Saturday in a loss to Texas. Here are tonight’s player grades for the 12th-ranked Wildcats: Markquis Nowell: 4 stars Kansas State’s senior guard was good in the first half and kept the Wildcats afloat as senior forward Keyontae Johnson sat for the majority of the half with foul trouble. Nowell made enough splash plays to overcome the six turnovers he committed, the last of which came on a live-ball opportunity that allowed TCU to cut…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Kansas State used a late 11-0 run to fight off TCU on Tuesday at Bramlage Coliseum in their 82-61 win over No. 17 TCU behind an impressive night from the Widlcats’ bench. Kansas State jumped out to an early lead with Keyontae Johnson drilling a 3-pointer in front of the Kansas State student section to give the Wildcats a 3-0 lead to start the game. Johnson later was tagged for two offensive fouls in the first half, which limited him to just nine minutes in the first half. But Johnson did have five points…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse The first weeks of being a college student can be intimidating. Learning how to navigate campus, where classes are and hustling around town to get in a comfortable seat before class starts and finding where the best places on campus is to get a bite to eat. All of this is true even for a top-200 national recruit at the most prized position in sports. Avery Johnson is one of the ten highest-ranked football players to sign with Kansas State, and his decision to enroll early at K-State in January is providing him…