Author: KMAN Staff
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M starting pitcher Ross Stripling threw a complete game and limited Kansas State to just six hits, while first baseman Jacob House drove in four runs as the eighth-ranked Aggies evened the opening Big 12 series with a 9-2 win Saturday at Blue Bell Park. The Aggies improved to 15-5 on the year with the win. K-State fell to 12-7 overall, snapping a seven-game winning streak. K-State jumped ahead 2-0 in the third inning on a Jared King home run to right field, his third of the season and second of the road trip. However, the homer seemed…
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP)– Kansas State’s Branshea Brown picked a good day to have a career game. The senior forward scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Wildcats past Princeton 67-64 Saturday in the first round of the women’s NCAA tournament. Jalana Childs added 15 points for Kansas State (20-13). The eighth seed will play the Prairie View A&M-Connecticut winner in the second round. Niveen Rasheed had 20 points, and Lauren Edwards and Devona Allgood each had 15 for Princeton (24-5). The Tigers lost for the first time in 18 games and for the third consecutive year in the first…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scoop Jardine had 16 points and eight assists to lead top-seeded Syracuse to a 75-59 victory over eighth-seeded Kansas State on Saturday in the third round of the East Regional Dion Waiters had 18 points and James Southerland added 15 for the Orange (33-2), who didn’t wait until the final minutes to seal the win as they did in the second round against 16th-seeded North Carolina-Asheville. Syracuse plays Vanderbilt or Wisconsin in Boston on Thursday night in the regional semifinals. Rodney McGruder had 15 points for the Wildcats (22-11), who struggled from the field against Syracuse’s 2/3 zone defense. Neither team had its…
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Tanner Witt’s two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning capped a four-run frame and helped Kansas State complete a rally to upset No. 8 Texas A&M, 15-12, Friday in the conference-opening game for both teams at Blue Bell Park. The Wildcats, who moved to 12-6 on the season, won their first Big 12 Conference game of the year for the third time in the last four seasons. The victory was just the fifth in College Station in 26 tries for K-State and the second-straight Friday win on the Aggies’ home turf. Texas A&M fell to 14-5 and has dropped four of its…
In a shocking development with inconvenient timing, Kansas State Senior forward Jamar Samuels did not play in Saturday’s NCAA Tournament game against Syracuse at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. Numerous reports indicate that Samuels was suspended for the game after a supposed wire transfer of money from a former coach came to light on Friday. The decision to sit Samuels reportedly was made by officials from the K-State Athletic Department and not by head coach Frank Martin. The Wildcats without one of their two Senior leaders, lost to Syracuse 75-59 in the Third Round of the NCAA tournament and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A proposed $14.1 billion state budget is drawing bipartisan criticism from Kansas House members who don’t think it would provide enough money for community mental health services. The House was debating a bill containing the spending plan Friday. Members expected to consider numerous amendments before deciding whether to give the measure first-round approval. The measure sticks closely to many of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s spending recommendations for the fiscal year that starts July 1. It includes Brownback’s proposal to spend $10 million for state grants to community mental health centers. But Rep. Pat Colloton, a Leawood Republican,…