A Kansas State Wildcats Blog -- Carrying the Banner High
Well, despite some struggles late with a hot-shooting Cal team, your Kansas State Wildcats have managed to open the season at 3-0, scoring over 90 points in each of the first three games for the first time in over 30 years. It’s been an incredible offensive display, led by transfer PJ Haggarty’s 24.3 points per […]
22 days ago | 2 reads
Football Kansas State beat Oklahoma State 14-6 in Stillwater. Despite being on the correct side of the scoreline, this was an embarrassing display of college football prowess. I don’t envy at all the fact that Jon Morse had to write about this debacle. I’m going to let the defense off this time. The unit did […]
23 days ago | 0 reads
It was ugly, painful, and embarrassing, but the Kansas State Wildcats escaped Stillwater with a win for only the second time this century in a 14-6 win over the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium. Despite having an opportunity against arguably the worst team in the Power Four, K-State’s offense was on life support […]
24 days ago | 1 read
After yet another in-season break, your Kansas State Wildcats return to the field today to begin the final stretch of the season. It’s been a particularly rough 2025 for the Wildcats. Between player injuries, a tough transition in scheme on offense, and all the scheduling quirks associated with the opening trip to Ireland, things have […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
The final two weeks of the season will be extremely trying for the Wildcats as they attempt to reach bowl eligibility. But the one thing they cannot afford is a loss to the worst team in the Big 12, and that’s going to be the issue this week. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (4-5, 3-3 […]
25 days ago | 1 read
The previous game against Texas Tech was the first game of the season where I felt the other team was simply better than Kansas State. The Wildcats fought hard, Avery played a gutsy game under constant pressure from the Texas Tech front, and the defense did enough to keep the team in the game early. […]
29 days ago | 0 reads
The Kansas State Wildcats came out of the gate early, weathered an early second half lull, then methodically sped away from the Bellarmine Knights 98-71 in Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday. K-State never trailed in this one, and we saw some things that invoke more…satisfaction…than in the previous game. The Cats got the start they were […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
After a rough go of exhibition play, your Kansas State Wildcats opened the 2025 regular season with a big dud….before turning things on in the second half to beat UNC Greensboro 93-64 back on Tuesday night to start the season 1-0. The Wildcats showed they are capable of losing to anyone, but also that they […]
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Football is on their third bye weekend of the season thanks to the scheduling quirks associated with the game in Ireland to open the season. So let’s take an opportunity to get caught up. Football The big news to end the week wasn’t really all that surprising if you’ve been paying attention. It was first […]
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I wasn’t able to catch the game in real time last night, but I was able to keep up with the live box score. I’m not going to lie, at halftime, I was writing, shall we say, a colorful critique of the coaching staff. As things started rapidly shifting in the ‘Cats’ direction, I filed […]
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The two couldn’t have been much more alike; both K-State and the internet-based video feed of the game (I refuse to mention them by name here) listlessly stumbled through the first half of Tuesday night’s opener in Bramlage against the UNC-Greensboro Spartans before the Cats pulled away for an easy 93-64 win. Frankly, neither the […]
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Five turnovers led to 27 points for the visitors as Texas Tech Red Raiders rolled to a 42-20 win over the Kansas State Wildcats this afternoon at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. K-State (4-5, 3-3 Big 12) was still in the game midway through the fourth quarter, but Tech got 14 points off two Wildcat turnovers […]
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After opening the season 1-3 and looking absolutely dreadful, your Kansas State Wildcats appear to have finally started to pull some things together and have gone 3-1 since the last weekend of September to sit at 4-4 overall and 3-2 in Big 12 play heading into the final month of the regular season. And while […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Kansas State has looked a lot better since the abysmal start to the season, even in the infuriating loss to Baylor. But there are visible cracks, and it may well be that Texas Tech is the wrong team to be playing with those cracks visible. Then again, as long as Mike Leach isn’t on their […]
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Folks, the Kansas win was tough on me. On one hand, I feel like some of my preseason hype was vindicated. On the other hand, “WHERE WAS THAT AGAINST ARMY AND ARIZONA!” I’m not sure what TCU did to this team, but it appears that they have finally decided to play football! It’s seven weeks […]
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Two years ago, if anybody had asked what the new Big 12 would look like, I might have agreed that it would be an exciting league, maybe even an innovative one. I would not have called it intriguing, however, and I certainly would not have predicted the weekly chaos that has become the norm in […]
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Football Kansas State beat Kansas 42-17, appropriately the 17th straight victory for the Wildcats in the long-running but not always compelling soap opera that is the Sunflower Showdown. K-State’s current streak is by far the longest in the whole series, and the previous streak of 10 games also belonged to the Wildcats. To put this […]
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A strong performance by the defense and countless Jayhawk mistakes led Kansas State Wildcats (4-4, 3-2 Big 12) to a 42-17 rout of the Jayhawks Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, the 17th consecutive win in the series for the Cats. Avery Johnson moved into sole possession of second place on the K-State all-time […]
about 2 months ago | 0 reads
It’s time for the Sunflower Showdown, as the Wildcats and Jayhawks are set to face off in Lawrence for the 123rd time on the gridiron. Neither team comes in to this game feeling particularly good about how the 2025 season has gone so far. The Wildcats are 3-4 overall and 2-2 in Big 12 play, […]
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The final score says about as much as you need to know about the K-State men’s basketball opener against the Missouri Tigers in Columbia Friday night. The Wildcats appear to be a team that can score. But they will have to improve in other areas to be successful. Defense is an obvious concern. Mizzou’s 100 […]
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The Wildcats finally put on a show last time they took the field, but then they got a week off. Will that week result in rust, or in more improvement? We’ll see, but it had better be the latter if The Streak is to continue. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (3-4, 2-2 Big 12) visit […]
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If you weren’t paying attention, you just might have missed that basketball starts tonight. Well…it doesn’t really start tonight, as this is just an exhibition game, but it’s our first chance to see the new-look merc Wildcats in action. And we’re going to need all the help we can get, because for the fourth time […]
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Needless to say, but I suppose I’ll say it anyway, this season hasn’t gone as hoped for either of the Big 12 Kansas football teams. Kansas State can’t get out of its own way and has a couple of mind-boggling losses on its resume. If Kansas State and Army play 100 times, Kansas State wins […]
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Your Benevolent Despot is not above being smug. When the transfer portal opened its gaping maw onto college football and the earliest stirrings of NIL started to creep over the transom, a lot of people were bemoaning what they perceived as an impetus for the bluebloods to scoop up all the talent. At the time, […]
about 2 months ago | 1 read
Needless to say, things haven’t exactly gone according to plan for the Wildcats as they gear up to face their in-state rival in the Sunflower Showdown. At one point, I thought this game would play a role in both the Big 12 and College Football Playoff race; instead, it’s a nooner with most interested parties […]
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