All four of K-State’s freshmen are three-star recruits ranked outside the national top 150, according to Rivals.com. On paper, at least, the Wildcats appear to be losing more talent than they are bringing in. K-State’s basketball coaches share a much more optimistic outlook.
KU athletics and IMG College, which holds multimedia rights for KU sports, announced Tuesday a long-term television partnership with Time Warner Cable Sports to distribute 300 hours of original KU sports programming annually, including live games, other coverage and replays. That means KU men’s basketball games carried by Jayhawk Television and aired on KSMO-TV Channel 62 in Kansas City last season will move to Metro Sports. Last season, Jayhawk Television aired six KU basketball games, including two exhibitions.
Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith announced the hiring of former Drake coach Mark Phelps as an assistant Tuesday. “I had some other opportunities and this was, by far, an absolute no-brainer,” Phelps said. “I would have run to Missouri on two feet for the opportunity.”
Oregon State defeated Kansas State 12-4 on Sunday night, forcing a deciding Game 3 in the NCAA super regional on Monday night with a trip to the College World Series on the line. K-State probably will start Gerardo Esquivel, who pitched the Wildcats’ regional-clinching win over Arkansas.
The Wildcats tied the game with a run in the ninth inning, then pushed across four runs in the 10th inning to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series against Oregon State.
For the Wildcats, everything seemed just right heading into tonight’s Super Regional against Oregon State, the Pac-12 champion. And that’s not cockiness, they’ll tell you. It’s just confidence. Something you need when you want to prove you belong among college baseball’s elite.
Kansas State outfielder Jared King and second baseman Ross Kivett won’t have to worry about their draft positions while the Wildcats meet Oregon State in the super regional on Saturday.
Wildcats baseball coach Brad Hill is earning bonuses as team’s season marches on.
The Wildcats’ center fielder is touted as the Wildcat most likely to go in early rounds of the First-Year Player Draft.
How good is K-State center fielder Jared King? Good enough to make his teammates better, and help get the Cats to the NCAA Super Regionals in Corvallis.
The Big 12 announced television information and kickoff times for non-conference and a few conference leagues games on Tuesday. The Star’s Blair Kerkhoff breaks it down.
The Kansas State baseball team defeated Arkansas 4-3 on Sunday night in the Manhattan Regional to advance to an NCAA Super Regional for the first time in school history. The Wildcats will travel to Corvallis, Ore., next week to take on Oregon State.
Wildcats one win away from advancing to Super Regional.
The Wildcats beat Bryant 7-1 Saturday and now await the winner of Sunday's early game between Bryant and Arkansas.
Kansas State hammered Wichita State 20-11 on Friday in the opening game of the NCAA Tournament’s Manhattan Regional. The 20 runs are the most scored against the Shockers in NCAA play, topping a 19-1 loss to Arizona State in the 1988 College World Series.
There will be a time soon when Kansas State freshmen Levi MaVorhis and Jake Matthys won’t have to clean out the bus after road trips. “They’re freshmen, so they do what we have freshmen do,” said Kansas State second baseman Ross Kivett, the Big 12 player of the year. “The thing is, they sure don’t pitch like freshmen.”
K-State coach Brad Hill thinks center fielder Jared King’s work ethic and the support he shows teammates is a big reason why the Wildcats baseball team won its first Big 12 championship and is preparing to play host to a NCAA tournament regional starting Friday. King finished the season with a .337 average, six home runs and 48 RBIs.
Under coach Brad Hill, the Kansas State baseball team is preparing to play host to its first NCAA regional and the Wildcats are making their fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in five years. But the program was about to be dropped when Mike Clark took over the Wildcats in 1987.
All-session tickets for this weekend’s NCAA baseball tournament regional at Kansas State are sold out. A limited number of standing-room only tickets will go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
