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#EMAW
Bill Snyder
215 wins
4 division titles
2 conference titles
19 bowl games
5-time national coach of the year
7-time conference coach of the year
214 All-Americans
24 All-Americans from Kansas
55 NFL Draft selections
In Big 12 history, two players have finished Top 10 in scoring, rebounding, steals, and 3-point percentage.
One is Kevin Durant.
The other one is Dean Wade.
Kansas State is the only school in the country that, in the last 2 years, has:
- Won a conference title in football
- Made an Elite Eight in men's basketball
- Made a Super Regional in baseball
Cooper Beebe didn’t opt out. He played his tail off tonight with his brothers. Didn’t get injured. Now, a long NFL career awaits. Perfect night for him.
There is excitement in a new era dawning, but let's not forget:
Today isn't a happy day. Necessary, but not happy.
Bill Snyder did more for Kansas State University and Manhattan than will ever be known. He's one of the best to ever coach football.
1991: K-State goes 7-4; not selected for bowl game
1998: K-State goes 11-1; not selected for BCS game; NCAA creates “K-State rule”
2011:
#11
Virginia Tech and
#13
Michigan are picked for Sugar Bowl over
#8
K-State
So you understand why K-State fans hate selection Sunday.
I know
#Royals
broadcasts aren’t as popular this season as they were a couple years ago, but it needs repeating:
Ryan Lefebvre is one of the best baseball broadcasters in the nation and Royals fans are lucky to have him.
30 tackles. Eight tackles for loss. 1.5 sacks. A forced fumble.
If you want to disrupt an offense, you're gonna want a
@PoonaF_95
. 😤
The
@TexasFootball
senior is
#Big12FB
's Defensive Lineman of the Year.
Jerome Tang's quote to finish his postgame radio interview:
"
#KState
Nation, we are on our way home for the Sunflower Showdown. We're going to be rowdy in The Bill. Let's get this win!"
As of midnight, here are your new all-time Big 12 football leaders by league members
WINS
1. K-State 225
2. OSU 220
3. TTU 197
LEAGUE TITLES
1. K-State/BU 3
3. CU/OSU/TCU 1
LEAGUE WINS
1. K-State 135
2. OSU 132
3. TTU 113
BOWL GAMES
1. OSU 22
2. K-State 21
3. TTU 20
Man, for as insecure as
#KState
fans can be about KU (which is *very* insecure), KU fans are downright molecularly unstable when they lose to K-State in basketball.
Some context for the anger here:
Just 16 days ago, K-State was ranked 15th in the country. After that point, they had zero bad losses and beat 3 teams in the NCAA field. And yet, the Cats were left out.
That's a snub if I've ever seen one. Heart goes out to the seniors.
June 10: Manhattan lifts all restrictions on nightclubs with no masks or social distancing required.
June 22: Riley County reports a record high number of cases, with almost all of them connected to Aggieville.
This isn’t rocket science.
Look. Even if the NCAA brings the hammer down, KU hoops will survive and bounce back quickly.
But until then, it would be therapeutic for the rest of the Big 12 to constantly remind KU that its historic run of titles was as clean as an Aggieville bathroom on Fake Patty's.
#KState
had more Top 50 draft picks this year than Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Michigan, Oregon, Texas A&M, Florida, and UCLA, just to name a few.
Only 4 schools had more Top 50 picks than the Cats: Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and Iowa.
If you are younger than 88 years old, then this is the first time you’ve seen
#KState
win 8 football games in a season with a coach not named Bill Snyder.
I hope
#KState
fans treat this weekend as a celebration of the 2022 season. Win or lose tomorrow, this team & staff deserve unanimous praise. Positive vibes only.
Some perspective on
#KState
’s 4 touchdowns via kick return this season:
• The entire Pac-12 combined for 4
• The entire Big Ten combined for 3
• The entire SEC combined for 2
• 120 out of 130 FBS teams had either 0 or 1
Jerome Tang was still at the airport when I left last night, about 45 minutes after their flight landed. He wouldn’t say no to any photo or autograph request.
Legend has it he’s still there this morning giving hugs to American Airlines gate agents.
Tomorrow's college basketball games on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU:
Unranked vs.
#23
Unranked vs. Unranked
Unranked vs. Unranked
Unranked vs.
#15
Unranked vs.
#21
Unranked vs. Unranked
Not on cable:
#7
vs.
#8
.
Here are the 4 most recent Big 12 games in which one team was held to 3 points or fewer:
- Today, K-State over Houston 41-0
- Last week, K-State over TCU 41-3
- 11/12/22, K-State over Baylor 31-3
- 10/29/22, K-State over Oklahoma St 48-0
#KState
baseball sweeps Oklahoma for the first time in 33 years.
The baton has been passed from Jerome Tang to the BatCats in this relay-race of a year for K-State athletics.
It’s not every day you have an Olympic gold medalist stop by to get some steaks 😎🥇
Our pleasure to welcome
@tar___ruh
and her family to Manhattan!
#EMAW
A total of 11 different college basketball programs have won a national title since 1998.
At K-State, Jerome Tang has beaten 6 of them: Kentucky, Michigan State, Baylor, Kansas, Florida, and Villanova.
In totally normal circumstances, this would be a solid road win for K-State.
In the actual circumstances, this might be one of Jerome Tang's more impressive wins.
EMAW.
Storybook stuff. The Kansas City native and
#KState
Wildcat gets drafted by the World Champions in his own backyard.
Right up there with Markquis Nowell getting to play at Madison Square Garden. This is absolutely wonderful.
Ref was going to call a block, but then changed his mind.
Ochai was in the restricted area. Should have been a block. Plus he wasn’t set when Culver took off.
Just a damn good season, no matter what happens from here.
- Pounded Mizzou
- Won both rivalry games
- Won at OU
- Historic shutout of OSU
Chris Klieman is officially the 2nd coach to prove it's possible to win at
#KState
.
K-State watched the Selection Show from a $50M luxury facility built 2 years ago.
But that’s beside the point. Folks, life is too short to be this petty. Don’t be like Mike.
No. 15
#KState
baseball defeats No. 13 Oklahoma State, 10-9, in Stillwater.
⚾️ 14th road win of the season (new school record)
⚾️ Cats are ONE game out of 1st in league standings with 5 to play
That's a good KU team. Leipold is really good. Hats off to them. Great game plan with a freshman QB.
In the end, K-State has played more games like this. They're seasoned veterans, and made the plays when it mattered.
Hunter Dickinson: "I gotta do more for my team out there. I feel like I let them down today."
Highlights the tip-in and the foul on the screen as frustrating moments.
The K-State women beat No. 2 Iowa for the second year in a row. This time, on the road.
Caitlin Clark shot 9 of 31 from the field. NINE OF THIRTY-ONE.
What a damn win for
@JeffMittie
's team.
Took almost 2 hours, but I reported 26 accounts today who tweeted pictures of monkeys (or worse) at black K-State athletes.
It's depressing work. But if we don't support them now, then when?
@andishehnouraee
He's either lying (in which case he should be removed from office) or he's telling the truth (in which case he should be removed from office)
Thank God the Big 12 changed the rules in the middle of the season. You'd hate for a team that isn't good enough to compete against Texas to be playing on this stage.
Tomorrow, Big 12 Champion
#KState
is going to land a top-30 recruiting class before facing Alabama in the Sugar Bowl next weekend.
Imagine that sentence a few months ago
It's the 3rd
#KState
sports event to draw 9+ million viewers in the last 4 months.
1. Big 12 Championship (9.41M)
2. KSU-Kentucky (9.40M)
3. Sugar Bowl (9.14M)
K-State’s game against Kentucky drew 9.4 million viewers and had a 5.1 rating, the second highest out of the 48 NCAA Tournament games in the first and second round, per Sports Media Watch. America loves
@KStateMBB
!
SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt transitions from a live interview with Jerome Tang after beating KU to coverage of the Chiefs' 4th Super Bowl appearance in 5 years.
This is one of the Good Nights as a sports fan.
The six biggest football brands in the new Big 12, based on success in the last 30 years:
- Utah
- K-State
- Oklahoma State
- TCU
- Baylor
- Cincinnati
Those are the programs that, at least initially, have a leg up in terms of recognition & prestige.