It was a rainy night outside the Sprint Center, and Kansas State was taking on Texas A&M inside the brand new arena in downtown Kansas City.
Many Purple Pride K-State fans made the two-hour journey to Kansas City. But where was the fight? Where was the will?
Maybe it was there, but it sure didn’t show. K-State lost 63-60 to go one-an- done in the Big 12 Tournament.
Stop the depressing music, and insert the Wabash Cannonball. The Wildcats have not been in the NCAA Tournament since 1996, and have been through some extremely rough times, but a new era has begun, and it’s all thanks to one man—Frank Martin.
Michael Beasley is the reason for K-State’s turnaround, or is he?
Martin has been able to take a freshman talented team and turn them into family—and notch a win over the Kansas Jayhawks.
I mean what a year, you have the most talked about freshman in Beasley and then throw in a win over you rival, finally, on your home court, and you finish third in the tough Big 12 Conference. Could it get any better?
Well indeed it has, because K-State is back in the NCAA Tournament as the No. 11 seed in the Midwest region in Omaha, Nebraska. How convenient for your trip back after a long absence to the NCAA Tournament to be so close to your hometown—it truly is a wonderful thing.
K-State will take on USC at 6:10 and the place should be packed with purple. Like it or not K-State basketball is back—and now they enter their 23rd NCAA tournament as a freshman team waiting to let out all they have on the Trojans.
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