From K-State Athletics Kansas State running back Mike McCoy announced today that he is medically retiring from football due to lingering injury issues. Despite his retirement, McCoy will remain on scholarship and will be involved with the Wildcat football program in a capacity to be determined. “I want to thank God, my family, my teammates and fans for all the support throughout my sports career. I love my teammates and all the people I met throughout this journey,” McCoy said. “I also want to thank Coach Klieman and his staff for giving me the opportunity for my next journey. It…
Author: Mitch Fortner
K-State is still running strong after wins against Kansas and Baylor last week. For the first time since the middle of December, K-State is a ranked team. In the latest AP and coaches polls, the Wildcats are ranked 18th. Plus, Twitter questions and a look around the Big 12. 0:00 – K-State beats Baylor without A-game 15:57 – Cats now have national attention 25:00 – Charlie Dickey to Oklahoma State 32:08 – Breaking News/Twitter questions 37:04 – Don’t apologize for beating Baylor 49:05 – K-State won’t mishandle being ranked 59:16 – Scott Drew loves KSU/Charles from Wamego 1:09:37 – KU…
From K-State Athletics Kansas State ended an 11-game losing streak at the Lloyd Noble Center, as the Wildcats downed Oklahoma 83-75. This was K-State’s first win in Norman since February 1, 2003. The Wildcats have now secured its first series win of the season in Big 12 play. This was the first time K-State has won the season series with Oklahoma since the Big 12 switched to a round robin schedule in the 2012-13 season. The Wildcats (15-9, 6-6 Big 12) had five players in double figures led by sophomore guard Rachel Ranke with 24 points on a career-high eight…
Senior Kamau Stokes paced four Wildcats in double figures with a game-high 20 points, as Kansas State extended its Big 12 winning streak to eight games with a 70-63 victory over Baylor on Saturday night before 8,466 fans at the Ferrell Center. The 8-game conference winning streak is the longest by a K-State team in the Big 12 era and the longest regular-season conference winning streak in 45 seasons since the Wildcats won 11 consecutive conference games from Jan. 14 to Feb. 26, 1974 in the old Big Eight Conference. Down 48-41 with 9:50 remaining, K-State (18-5, 8-2 Big 12)…
Everyone is still buzzing from Cartier Diarra’s dunk. Kellis Robinett, from the KC Star and Wichita Eagle, calls in to discuss beating KU and who he thinks will win the Big 12. We play another round of “Mason v Music v John v Movies.” Plus, You Can’t Be Serious. 0:00 – Diarra is special beyond the dunk 13:25 – Kellis part one 24:08 – Kellis part two 32:42 – Gavin Potter body pant 38:05 – K-State’s offense doesn’t suck 50:42 – Mason v Music v John v Movies 1:07:49 – Other KSU players who stepped up 1:11:34 – You Can’t…
From K-State Athletics With a furious fourth quarter rally and a dominant overtime session, Kansas State ended a three-game losing streak with a 72-62 overtime win over Kansas in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. K-State has now won 11 of the last 12 meetings with Kansas, including six straight in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas State (14-9, 5-6 Big 12) sent the game to overtime with a 7-0 run in the final 1:54 of regulation. Peyton Williams converted a three-point play, followed by a Kayla Goth jumper with 1:28 to play to pull K-State within two, 60-58. K-State hauled in a rebound on…
From K-State Athletics Kansas State head coach Chris Klieman announced his inaugural signing class in Manhattan on Wednesday with the announcement of seven more student-athletes who plan on joining the K-State football program in 2019. With the seven signees on Wednesday, K-State’s current class comes to 23 players. The 2019 K-State signing class features a pair of FBS transfers in former Ball State running back James Gilbert and New Mexico safety Marcus Hayes in addition to community-college transfers Jonathan Alexander and Ty Zentner, while the remaining 19 are from the high school ranks. Of the 23 players, all four transfers…
We had a full list of celebrities in-studio today. From K-State Online, Matt Hall and Derek Young. From the K-State football staff, Taylor Braet, cornerbacks coach Van Malone and running backs coach Brian Anderson. K-State adds seven to the 2019 class. Plus, there was still plenty of chat about K-State beating KU last night. 0:00 – KSU pops KU in the mouth 13:14 – Interview with Braet, Malone and Anderson 42:10 – Barry’s dunk spices up KU rivalry 52:50 – Callers on Barry’s dunk 1:02:25 – Recruits Jax Dineen and Keenan Garber 1:13:43 – Breaking News for K-State football/DY 1:19:18…
From K-State Athletics Kansas State’s senior trio of Barry Brown, Jr. (18), Dean Wade (12) and Kamau Stokes (9) combined for 39 points to lift the Wildcats to a 74-67 win over No. 13/14 Kansas in the 290th edition of the Dillons Sunflower Showdown in front of a sold-out crowd of 12,528 at Bramlage Coliseum on Tuesday. With the win, K-State (17-5, 7-2 Big 12) ends an 8-game skid against Kansas, winning its first contest against the Jayhawks since 2015. The Wildcats have now won 7 consecutive games in Big 12 play for the first time in nearly 10 years…
Part one of the Sunflower Showdown is tonight from Bramlage Coliseum. Powercat Gameday blogger Cole Manbeck drove from Kansas City to be on the show today. Does it feel like this is K-State’s time to beat KU? 0:00 – Feels like K-State’s night 13:28 – More about KSU winning or KU losing? 26:45 – Cole joins in studio 40:56 – Stop letting the NCAA fight your battles 54:05 – Bramlage environment/Twitter 1:03:20 – Mitch’s pep talk to K-State – Positive message from Matt Hall