An absolute dogfight for the Kansas State women ended in heartbreak Thursday afternoon as a last-second South Dakota 3-pointer gave the Wildcats their first loss of the season. https://youtu.be/N8DxxmS0p0s Down two with a second to play, South Dakota’s Patience Williams hit her first 3-pointer of the day, boosting the Coyotes ahead 72-71. A last-second lay-up attempt from freshman Gina Garcia didn’t fall, and the Wildcats moved to 3-1 after the loss. K-State got off to a slow start offensively, trailing early and missing its first six shots before cashing in on its first bucket at the 4:36 mark. And 8-0…
Author: Tim Everson
It took a little bit to get going, but once it did, the Kansas State women easily ran past Lamar Monday night in an 89-61 win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dvz0bXzbQ “We’ve got a lot of new pieces in there, so the chemistry of working together, everybody connecting, is just going to take some time,” head coach Jeff Mittie said. “We’re seeing better things every game, but it’s not going to be a straight line of improvement. … I think there were stretches of this game where it looked really bad, and there were stretches game where you saw it look really good.” Both…
The Kansas State women only led for a total of 43 seconds, but it was all they needed Saturday afternoon in their 46-44 last-second win at SMU in Dallas Down eight points with just over 4:30 to play, K-State (2-0) started to chip away, ending the game on an 11-1 run, including seven straight to close the game with a 3-pointer from junior Taryn Sides, and back-to-back lay-ups from freshman point guard Gina Garcia, including the game-winner at the buzzer. “We just wanted to make sure we had the momentum if it goes to overtime,” head coach Jeff Mittie said…
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…
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…