Articles Tagged: Kansas State Wildcats

Any thoughts of playing in the Big 12 title game, or even making the college football playoffs, needs to be put on the back burner when the Wildcats come to town

Walker Jenkins was the first-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins last year. Kaelen Culpepper was Minnesota’s first-round pick this year. They find themselves together as members of the Cedar Rapids Kernels to end this baseball season.

Kansas State expects to contend for a spot in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. The Cyclones’ ample returning production on both sides of the ball and recent success in the series will, at minimum, give them a chance to play spoiler.

The Iowa men’s basketball team beat Kansas State 91-82 in an NIT first-round game Tuesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

Payton Sandfort, identified as the Iowa men’s Caitlin Clark in the Wildcats’ scouting report, has career-high 30 points and Ben Krikke scored 24 for Hawkeyes. Iowa never trailed and heads to this weekend’s second round.

Previewing Tuesday’s NIT first-round game between Iowa and Kansas State: Teams with 14 losses apiece clash in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The Iowa men’s basketball team is getting a home game in the 2024 National Invitation Tournament, and it’s coming up fast.

Robert Jones erupted for a conference career-high 18 points as second-seeded Iowa State surged past Kansas State, 76-57, in a Big 12 men’s basketball quarterfinal game at T-Mobile Center

Iowa State entered Saturday’s Big 12 regular-season finale at Kansas State clinging to hopes of sharing the league title for the first time since 2000-01. Instead, the sixth-ranked Cyclones fell, 65-58, while suffering just their second loss in the past 10 games.

Kansas State welcomed All-America post Ayoka Lee back to its lineup Wednesday night after a month away with an ankle injury. Iowa State was an unwelcoming host. The Cyclones made 10 of 10 free throws in the final 35 seconds to secure a 96-93, double-overtime victory over the seventh-ranked Wildcats at Hilton Coliseum.

With or without All-American Ayoka Lee, Kansas State has proven to be an extremely formidable foe. The Wildcats sit one game behind conference leader Oklahoma in the standings — and will pose a stern challenge for Iowa State regardless of her current health status.

Regional and national news reports that featured allegations leveled at Iowa State that it had spied on Kansas State’s coaches and players during timeouts in Wednesday’s 78-67 win over the Wildcats compelled coach T.J. Otzelberger to speak up after Saturday’s win over Kansas.

Forty-seven fouls were called. Elbows swung vigorously and occasionally maliciously. And in the waning moments of No. 23 Iowa State’s grinding 78-67 win Wednesday over Kansas State, even the head coaches got heated.

Abu Sama rushed for 276 yards as the Cyclones finished the regular season at 7-5, their sixth winning season in the past seven years.

Iowa State’s 42-35 win over No. 19 Kansas State had statistics that you just don’t see in any old snow-covered college football game.