Author: K-State Athletics

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Following its second straight 26-win season, Kansas State women’s basketball was rewarded with an at-large bid and a five-seed in the Spokane 4 Regional in the 2025 NCAA Tournament during Sunday night’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Show on ESPN. This is the program’s 19th NCAA Tournament appearance in school history and the sixth under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie. Got our dancin’ shoes ready #MarchMadness @MarchMadnessWBB pic.twitter.com/u6RtnUDxuN— K-State Women's Basketball (@KStateWBB) March 17, 2025 K-State (26-7, 13-5 Big 12) was chosen as a No. 5 seed in the Spokane 4 regional and will be opposed…

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Friday: K-State 4 William & Mary 2 Right-handers Ty Ruhl and Blake Dean combined for five scoreless innings to help lead K-State to a 4-2 victory over William & Mary in its home opener Friday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. Ruhl (1-1) picked up the win in relief of starter Jacob Frost, scattering just one hit over 2 2/3 innings before handing the ball over to Blake Dean, who fired a scoreless eighth and ninth with three strikeouts to earn the save. The Wildcats (7-5) scored three of their four runs in the first and second innings, highlighted by a…

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – K-State, the five-seed, used a hot first half shooting effort from the field to take a double-digit lead, but four-seed West Virginia came back to secure a 73-69 win in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship at T-Mobile Center on Friday. K-State (26-7) was led by a trio of seniors: Kennedy Taylor, Temira Poindexter and Serena Sundell. Taylor carded a personal season-high 21 points on a perfect 9-of-9 shooting and added three rebounds. Taylor is the first player in Big 12 Championship history to go perfect from the field on…

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The Big 12 Conference and its television partners announced Friday that Kansas State’s non-conference football game at Arizona originally scheduled for Saturday, September 13, will now be played on Friday, September 12. The game will be shown on either an ESPN or FOX network, and the game time and network designation will be announced at a later date. Kansas State will play at Arizona for the eighth time in school history and will play in Tucson for the first time since defeating Wyoming in the 1993 Copper Bowl. K-State won the battle of the Wildcats last season, 31-9, in the…

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – K-State, the five-seed, used a hot shooting effort in the fourth quarter to blow open Thursday’s second round game with 13-seed UCF for an 80-65 win at the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship at T-Mobile Center. With the win, K-State (26-6) equaled its win total from last season. The 52 combined wins over the last two seasons are tied for the third-most over a two-season span in program history. The Wildcats saw four players reach double figures in scoring, as senior and All-Big 12 First Team honoree Serena Sundell registered 21 points, including…

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(14/15) K-State saw its home win streak halted at 17, as (17/22) Baylor downed the Wildcats, 79-62, at Bramlage Coliseum on Monday night. K-State (25-5, 13-4 Big 12) was paced by senior guard and All-America candidate Serena Sundell with 20 points on 10-of-19 shooting, four rebounds, three assists and three steals. Senior forward Kennedy Taylor made her 10th start of the season and registered 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting and a 6-of-8 effort from the charity stripe and paced the Wildcats on the glass with seven rebounds. Baylor (25-5, 15-2) saw four players reach double figures and were led by…

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Behind a team-high 18 points from freshman Jayden Quaintance, Arizona State snapped a 6-game losing streak with a near wire-to-wire 66-54 win over Kansas State on Sunday afternoon before 9,121 fans at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State (13-14, 7-9 Big 12) saw its losing streak hit 3 games with the loss, as the Wildcats played without their all-everything senior Coleman Hawkins, who is the only Division I player to average 10 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks per game. Arizona State (13-14, 4-12 Big 12) had its own missing piece, as head coach Bobby Hurley dismissed the Sun…

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Playing in front of a sell-out crowd of 11,010 fans, (12/15) K-State honored its seven seniors before, during and after Saturday’s game against Kansas, as the Wildcats secured a 90-60 win over its Dillon Sunflower Showdown rival at Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats have won six straight and 10 of the last 11 meetings in the series in Manhattan. K-State (25-4, 13-3 Big 12) secured its 51st win in the last two seasons. The 51 victories in the last two seasons are tied for the fourth-most over a two season span and the most since the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons (54).…

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Friday, K-State 3 #5 Arkansas 2 Micah Dean’s go-ahead RBI double in the seventh, combined with 11 strikeouts from Jacob Frost and Blake Dean, propelled K-State to a 3-2 stunner over No. 5 Arkansas on Friday night at the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field. After Arkansas (4-1) evened the score with a pair of solo home runs, Micah Dean knocked the clutch hit into left field, driving in the game-winning run and handing the Razorbacks their first loss of the season. The redshirt freshman from Richmond, Texas was named the Player of the Game by FloSports…

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