A Kansas State Wildcats Blog -- Carrying the Banner High
Game Information When: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 Where: @ Desert Financial Arena – Tempe, Arizona What Time?: 2 P.M. CST 2025-26 Season Record: 9-6 Big 12 Record: 0-2 Previous 3 Games 1/7: L – 104 – 76 vs BYU @ Away 12/29: L- 89 – 95 vs Colorado @ Home 12/22: L – 75 – 78 vs Oregon State […]
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Kansas State dropped a 101-76 decision against Arizona Wednesday night in Tuczon. It was simultaneously more competitive than expected and not as close as the final score would indicate. The lavender Wildcats (9-6, 0-2 Big 12) played the desert ‘Cats (15-0, 2-0) even at times and even outplayed them for a stretch immediately following halftime. […]
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Well it was not meant to be this past weekend for the Wildcats. To be fair, they played tough against a very good BYU team, including playing *defense* from time to time. But they could not do the thing they need to do to win games this season, going just 3-21 from deep in the […]
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Game Information When: Wednesday, January 7th Where: Tucson, Arizona – The McKale Center What Time?: 2025-26 Season Record: 14-0 Previous 3 Games 1/3: L W – 97 – 78 vs Utah @ Away 12/29: W- 99 – 71 vs South Dakota State @ Home 12/22: W – 107- 71 vs Bethune Cookman @ Home Arizona Personnel Starters Bench Key […]
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The Kansas State Wildcats led early, but inability to make shots and to compete on the glass ultimately resulted in an 83-73 defeat at the hands of the No. 10 BYU Cougars Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum. The loss drops K-State to 9-5 on the season and 0-1 in conference play. The Cougars, meanwhile, notched their […]
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Last Sunday, it took a bit for the Wildcats to knock off the rust following a week off to rest over Christmas break, but Kansas State prevailed against the visiting Warhawks of ULM to improve to 9-4 on the season and finish the roller-coaster non-con slate on a four game win streak. Now, after another […]
7 days ago | 0 reads
With Kansas State in the middle of a bizarro Christmas where they got to unwrap their big gift on December 1, can’t play with it until after the New Year, there has been surprisingly little to talk about when it comes to the football program. Coach Klein has made a few obvious additions to his […]
25 days ago | 1 read
Well, at least the TangCats took care of business on Monday. And yet, despite beating literally the worst team in NCAA Division 1 108-49, it wasn’t even all that impressive. The Wildcats were even later mocked by said team, and it’s not the first time this season that the TangCats have been on the receiving […]
28 days ago | 1 read
After four straight losses – the last three of which weren’t particularly close – Kansas State needed a slumpbuster and the schedule delivered Monday night. Mississippi Valley State was picked to finish last in the SWAC again after winning just three games last season and has just one win this season, against the Mississippi University for […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
The last one of these opened this way: The Kansas State Wildcats are officially entering the “pay-attention” neighborhood. After a 98-77 drubbing of a decent Mississippi State squad last night, the 5-0 Wildcats are starting to appear like a legitimately solid squad…one that could be capable of fun things if they can keep things rolling […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
As it turns out, meeting newly-introduced Head Football Coach Collin Klein was the pinnacle of the afternoon in Bramlage, as K-State (5-4) dropped their fourth straight – second in a row in the Octagon of Gloom – to the Seton Hall Pirates (9-1), 78-67. K-State entered the game as a 2.5-point favorite, but produced another […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
In a festive event at the Morgan Family Arena in Manhattan, Collin Klein was officially introduced as Kansas State’s new head coach in a press conference that was nothing short of inspirational. The only notable absence from the event was Chris Klieman himself, which was certainly by design. Richard Linton began the affair before turning […]
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In news that will surprise exactly nobody, the Athletic Department officially announced Collin Klein as the newest head football coach at Kansas State University. The 36th head coach in school history, he will replace Chris Klieman who announced his retirement on Wednesday after seven seasons with the program. The details of Klein’s contract have not […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
When the news about Chris Klieman started to spread like a prairie fire yesterday, I was surprised but not that surprised. The last two seasons have clearly taken a toll on Coach Klieman. I don’t have any inside information, but you could see it on his face and hear it in his voice over the […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
The Manhattan Mercury, under a byline from publisher Ned Seaton, no less, is reporting that Chris Klieman will announce his retirement and that Collin Klein is lined up as his replacement. Pete Thamel of ESPN made a similar report on X, while at the Athletic/New York Times Austin Meek — who used to cover K-State […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
I’m not a “fire them all” type of writer or sports fan. I have family in the college coaching profession, and they’ve been fired…multiple times, it’s never fun. In fact, K-State fired my uncle (along with everyone else on the Stan Parrish staff) in 1988, ending their stay in Manhattan. Hell, the one thing a […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The Kansas State Wildcats never showed up, and as a result dropped an absolutely excuseless stinker to the Bowling Green Falcons, 82-66. This recap is going to get all the effort the Wildcats (5-3) summed up against the visitors (6-2). K-State never led. Bowling Green got out to a molasses-slow 7-2 lead, and the two […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Once again, the Kansas State Wildcats turned what should have been an easy win into 60 minutes of stress-laded football watching as they lurched to a 24-14 win over the hapless Colorado Buffaloes at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Three touchdowns and 142 yards by Joe Jackson led the way as the Cats really struggled for […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
We’re here. One more time (at least) for your Kansas State Wildcats to take the field in 2025. It’s been a rough season. We all had lofty expectations headed into the season, with dreams of a shot at the Big 12 championship running through our minds. But the Wildcats stumbled and bumbled through 2025, and […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
October 24, 2009. That was the last time the Colorado Buffaloes visited Manhattan for a game of American football. The good news is that K-State won that game, 20-6. The bad news is that K-State did not go to a bowl game that year, finishing 6-6. We don’t mean to alarm anyone, but there’s a […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
The Kansas State Wildcats came to historic Assembly Hall hoping to get back on the winning track against Indiana. Instead, they started slowly, recovered, then fell back again, losing 86-69. The final score does not fully indicate how badly the Wildcats (5-2) were outclassed by the Hoosiers (6-0) through much of the game, nor how […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
Some of the greatest minds in human history have struggled with the question of why good things happen to seemingly (or actually) bad people and bad things happen to seemingly good people. I’ll save y’all save y’all the Philosophy 101 explanation of the “Problem of Evil,” but it’s a question I’ve been pondering this football […]
about 2 months ago | 4 reads
Football Kansas State lost 51-47 to #12 Utah on Saturday. The loss drops the Wildcats to 5-6 on the season, 4-4 in the Big 12. As Jon Morse said in his recap, the star of the game was RB Joe Jackson, who set a new single game rushing record with 293 yards on a day […]
about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Records fell like dominoes in a wild contest, and the Utah Utes scored a final-minute touchdown to come back from a 12-point deficit to keep their playoff hopes alive with a 51-47 win over the Kansas State Wildcats at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. K-State set a school record for single-game rushing yardage with […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
What a weird, ugly season this has been for the Kansas State Wildcats. From the loss in Ireland, to one of the most disappointing home losses in at least two decades (but maybe school history) to Army, and now we’re coming off what could easily be argued as one of the worst wins in over […]
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