by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV K-State added its fourth member of the transfer portal class in 2023 on Saturday, with former Mississippi State defensive lineman Jevon Banksgiving his pledge to Chris Klieman. Banks spent three seasons in Starkville as a member of the Bulldog football team, where he totaled 26 tackles in those three seasons, as well as four tackles for loss. The most productive season for the Mississippi native was this past year, where he logged 17 tackles and a half sack. It’s likely that Banks will play more on the interior of K-State’s defensive…
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by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline -Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Kansas State edge rusher Felix Anudike-Uzomah announced on Thursday that he is declaring for the 2023 NFL Draft on social media. Anudike-Uzomah played three seasons with K-State, beginning in 2020 as a freshman. HIs best season came as a sophomore in 2021 when he recorded 14.5 sacks, including 11.0 sacks. He also forced six fumbles during the 2021 season. Against TCU in 2021, Anudike-Uzomah was credited with six sacks. But in the following days, two of the sacks weren’t credited to him because of a rulebook technicality. As a junior, he was named the…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Jerome Tang was listening to a sermon earlier this season during some of his free time, and he realized the theme was easily connectable to his coaching style at Kansas State. The speaker was telling a story about how a prophet needed to shoot his arrow in an effort to take down a bad king. Tang’s mind clicked and realized that his arrow was Markquis Nowell. In his first season as a head coach after spending the previous 19 seasons working as an assistant on Scott Drew’s staff at Baylor, Tang is regularly learning about how to…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV The build, strike that, elevation, has been happening all season for home crowds watching K-State basketball. It started with 6,800 fans showing up for a Tuesday exhibition game against Washburn. At least that was the official start to the season, it really started in March when Jerome Tang was hired to be the next basketball coach at Kansas State University. “Kids want to play in front of great fans and that’s what attracted me to this place,” were the words of Tang when he was hired. “I was always blown away by…
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer As the pass left senior guard Markquis Nowell ’s right hand, Jerome Tang thought to himself, “Oh crap.” The first-year Kansas State head coach thought his veteran guard’s lob to senior forward Keyontae Johnson would be too high to handle and was sailing out of bounds to give Oklahoma State the ball trailing by 3 in the final minute Tuesday night in Manhattan. Johnson had other plans, skying for a one-handed alley-oop slam that gave the Wildcats a 62-57 advantage and put the final nail in Oklahoma State’s coffin. The dunk was so surprising that Tang admitted it drew…
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by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV K-STATE WINS WITHOUT A HEAVY OUTPUT FROM KEYONTAE JOHNSON After two straight games with Markquis Nowell and Keyontae Johnson filling up the scoring column, it was a rough start to the evening for Johnson. He struggled to score early in the game and also had some uncharacteristic turnovers. Johnson proved he could overcome slow starts with his performance against Nebraska in T-Mobile Center, as he started to come alive midway through the first half. But that was not the case against the Cowboys on Tuesday. At the half, Johnson had just three points on 1/7…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Kansas State head coach Jerome Tang responded to his name being connected to the vacant coaching position at Texas on Monday. “We try to focus on what is going on right now,” Tang said. “I tell our guys that. All of a sudden, people want to come and do interviews and do this. None of that matters. We have a short window to accomplish something that we will remember for the rest of our lives. So that is all I’m focused on. I’m not focused on anything else.” Tang is in his first season with Kansas…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV After many years of waiting, former K-State quarterback, Micahel Bishop is headed to the College Football Hall of Fame. On Monday the National Football Foundation announced their 2023 induction class, which in addition to Bishop includes names like Reggie Bush, Eric Berry, Tim Tebow, Jeremy Maclin and many others. Playing for Bill Snyder at Kansas State in the 1997 and 1998 seasons saw Bishop become the model for the dual-threat quarterback. Bishop threw for 2,844 yards in his senior season at K-State, with a 23/5 touchdown to interception ratio. He also…
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