Bring On The Cats

Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports Plus the VolleyCats earn a bunch of awards, and a couple of transfers to talk about. Basketball Breaking news in the Slate?!?!!? Well today you get it. This morning, the WeberCats filled their final scholarship spot, as former Wake Forest forward Ismael Massoud announced his plans to head to Manhattan and join the Wildcats. Massoud will … [Read more...] about Slate: BatCats bounce back against the Bears

Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports K-State adds another P5 transfer to complete the roster. Ismael Massoud, a 6’8”, 220 pound sophomore forward transfer from Wake Forest announced today that he will be joining Kansas State for the 2021/2022 season. All praise to the most high‼️ @KStateMBB Ready to work! pic.twitter.com/IMsyGc9DjQ— Ismael Massoud (@IsmaelMassoud) April … [Read more...] about Kansas State Basketball: Wildcats Add Wake Forest Transfer Ismael Massoud

Don’t know about making heads bobble, but Darren Sproles sure could tax the ankles of the opposition. Today’s vocabulary word: Dearth. As in, “There is a dearth of K-State sports news to share with you this morning.” So scarce is the news, in fact, that we’re going to steal a story from ol’ Mizzou to kick things off. The Tigers, of course, reached into the transfer … [Read more...] about SLATE: Darren Sproles: Bobblehead

The S.S. Wildcat, April 11 2021 | Photo by ROY ISSA/AFP via Getty Images With three notable exceptions, the weekend was awful. Hoo-boy. This was a brutal weekend to be a Kansas State sports fan. Being the kind and generous folks we are, we’ll get you started with the good news. Track and Field At the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, against a fairly strong field of Power 5 … [Read more...] about SLATE: Disastrous weekend for Kansas State

If all goes well, Mark Smith will give Kansas State a reliable 3-point shooter who can also defend and rebound. | Andrew Nelles-USA TODAY Sports Sam Snelling of Rock M Nation drops by for a conversation about DaJuan Gordon going to Missouri and Mark Smith coming to Kansas State. The Unholy Alliance lives! There were some jokes between writers of this blog when Mark … [Read more...] about Breaking down the Mark Smith and DaJuan Gordon transfers

Lauren Taubert is now the NCAA heptathlon leader. | Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Texas tries to start a fight, and the weekend calendar The field at the Jim Click invitational is nothing to sneeze at. Indeed, the top five finishers in the women’s heptathlon posted scores that would leave them all within the top eight nationally at day’s end. The top of that list: Kansas … [Read more...] about SLATE: Taubert scores big at Jim Click

The Wildcat third-sacker had eight hits in the two-game mid-week set. | Richard W. Rodriguez/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images BatCats run-rule UAPB, rowing earns boat of the week, and more In the first inning last night, Cameron Thompson was perfectly willing to take a walk. With the count at 2-0, Thompson started fouling off pitches; on … [Read more...] about SLATE: Thompson on fire

Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Plus men’s golf has a strong finish in Columbia Baseball K-State baseball did exactly what it was supposed to do last night, dropping the visiting Golden Lions of Arkansas-Pine Bluff to the tune of 12-2 in just 8 innings. Kasey Ford tossed three scoreless innings to pick up the win, his second of the season … [Read more...] about SLATE: BatCats light things up Tuesday night

He’s not a quarterback. But that face sure is familiar. | Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images Men’s golf off to hot start in Columbia Congratulations to the Baylor Bears for dominating the previously unbeaten Gonzaga Bulldogs to become only the second Big 12 team to win a national basketball title since the league was formed. In K-State Land, nothing quite so … [Read more...] about SLATE: Football adds transfer receiver with a familiar father