MANHATTAN, Kansas (K-State Sports) – Entering Monday night’s game, All-American Ayoka Lee sat in a tie for the K-State career double-doubles record, she would break the record in grand fashion as the 12th-ranked Wildcats cruised past Oral Roberts, 102-59, on Monday night at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State improved its record to 11-1 for the first time under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie. This is the best start for K-State since opening the 2008-09 season with a 12-0 mark. Lee, the reigning Big 12 Player of the Week, registered her second career game and just the second in school history with 20 or more…
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MANHATTAN, Kansas (K-State Sports) – For the sixth time in her career and second time this season, K-State center Ayoka Lee has been named the Big 12 Conference co-Player of the Week. Lee shared this week’s honor with Texas’ Rori Harmon. Lee joins Nicole Ohlde (7) and Kendra Wecker (7) as the only Wildcats in program history with six or more Big 12 Player of the Week honors. When including her Big 12 record 12 Freshman of the Week recognitions from the 2019-20 season, Lee has received 18 Big 12 weekly honors during her K-State career. Playing just one game last week due…
Riley County Historical Museum Curator of Education Melanie Highsmith takes us back in time, 50 years to December 1973 as part of our annual holiday edition of the program.
Officers filed a report for rape in Manhattan on December 15, 2023, around 7:23 AM. Officers listed a 19-year-old female as the victim and a known male as the suspect. Due to the nature of the crime reported no additional information will be released. Officers filed a report for theft in the 1700 block of Laramie Street in Manhattan on December 16, 2023, around 2:33 PM. Officers listed two 21-year-old males as the victims when it was reported an unknown suspect stole 2 Xbox consoles from the victims. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $750. Anyone with…
FROM K-STATE ATHLETICS GAME #12 Oral Roberts (6-3, 0-0 Summit League) at (12/16) K-State (10-1, 0-0 Big 12) Monday, December 18, 2023 | 6:30 p.m. | Bramlage Coliseum (11,010) | Manhattan, Kan. TELEVISION Big 12 Now on ESPN+ Play-by-Play: Brian Smoller Analyst: Missy Heidrick Sideline: Hannah Whetstone RADIO K-State Sports Network Flagship: Sunny 102.5 & 1350 KMAN Online: kstatesports.com Play-by-Play: Matt Walters Analyst: Kaylee Page LIVE STATS www.kstatesports.com SERIES HISTORY vs. Oral Roberts 7-2 • K-State leads the series with Oral Roberts, 7-2. • Head coach Jeff Mittie is 2-1 in his career against Oral Roberts. • The Wildcats are 42-6 against…
After scrambling to gain a lead at halftime Sunday afternoon, the K-State men’s basketball team couldn’t maintain in dropping a 62-46 decision to Nebraska. The Huskers out rebounded the Wildcats by 17 and the Cats only managed four field goal makes after halftime (16%) in suffering their third loss of the season and their first to a team not ranked in the AP Top 25 at game time. K-State suffered through field goal droughts of 3:30 minutes, 4 minutes, 5:30 minutes and more than 5 minutes in the second half. The stretch of 5:30 began after an Arthur Kaluma dunk…
Walmart in Manhattan was crawling with Cops…N’ Kids this morning. The two partnered up for the 46th annual opportunity for kids to do some holiday shopping with a cop. Retired RCPD officer of 28 years, and current Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Deputy Rod Cook explains here: Agency representatives from Riley County Police, Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s, St. Mary’s Police, Wamego Police, Kansas State University Police, and Kansas State Park Rangers shopped with about 140 children. While riding in the basket of a shopping cart, Kindergartener Dominic Galmore shares what he chose: Galmore’s partner and cart driver, RCPD Director Brian Peete, shares what…
Watch Jerome Tang’s Press Conference MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Sports) – Kansas State head men’s basketball coach Jerome Tang met with the media on Friday afternoon (Dec. 15) to preview the Wildcats’ home game with Nebraska on Sunday at Bramlage Coliseum. Links to the audio and a transcript of Tang’s availability are above. K-State (8-2) returns from the semester exam break to play host to former conference rival Nebraska (8-2) on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., CT at Bramlage Coliseum. The contest will conclude a 3-game series between the schools that began in 2021 with K-State winning 67-58 in Lincoln on Dec. 19,…