A new-look Kansas State women’s basketball roster made a strong first impression on Wildcat fans Monday evening in K-State’s 100-35 win over Omaha in the season’s opening game. “I thought it was a solid performance,” head coach Jeff Mittie said. “It’s different at home, different emotions, different energy, different nerves that go into it. And thought our group really did some things that were pretty solid most of the night. You could see we were kind of excited to play.” https://youtu.be/LBllfoDpku4 The Wildcats were dominant from the jump, allowing just two made field goals in the first half, and hitting…
Author: Tim Everson
Kansas State women’s basketball player Kennedy Taylor has had her waiver for a fifth season of eligibility denied by the NCAA, the school announced on Sunday. A 6-foot-2, forward, Taylor joined the Wildcats in the summer of 2024. She had petitioned the NCAA for a fifth year of college eligibility after starting her career at Colorado in 2021-22 where she played in only eight games for a total of 19 minutes. She then played two seasons at Missouri State (2022-24) before joining the Wildcats. “Thank you for an amazing senior year!!,” Taylor said in a social media post Sunday afternoon.…
https://youtu.be/qPlBeDxC0Mw Tim Everson – teverson@themercury.com Despite a strong first half, Kansas State couldn’t keep up down the stretch in a 43-20 loss at home to No. 13 Texas Tech Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. K-State was in it through three and a half quarters, but late turnovers allowed Tech to pile it on, giving K-State its worst loss by margin of victory this season, and the worst loss versus the Red Raiders since a 66-14 defeat in 2009. It’s the worst home loss for K-State by margin of defeat since 2020, and the worst since a 55-0 loss to…