It was another typical week for K-State basketball. A win and two losses and a lot of the fan base didn’t bother to watch. I’m trying to find the positives when watching the latest version of Bruceketball, but the losses are piling up, making it hard to do so. A feature I enjoy on Heartland College Sports is the weekly “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly” column summing up the week in the Big 12. This week I decided…
This past week we saw an ugly last second win for the basketball team over Omaha and a seven point loss to TCU yesterday. The football team had a big “name” signing and a couple of roster announcements that made some waves. Let’s take a look… “Freshman Selton Miguel connected on a 3-pointer with 9.7 seconds left to lift Kansas State to a 60-58 win over Omaha on Tuesday night in front of a limited capacity crowd of 519…
There was a lot of discussion regarding my post last week about what the Big 12 needs to do to become a regular contender in the college football playoff. I discussed recruiting rankings and specifically compared the recruiting rankings of Oklahoma and Texas to that of the teams that almost always make the four-team college football playoff. I decided to take a deeper dive at the recruiting rankings of the Big 12 programs and analyze the trends. My theory is…
Another college football playoff selection show aired Sunday and this one was the least dramatic yet. I normally look forward to watching, but the announcement of the teams and their seeding this year was already a given well before the show aired. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Notre Dame were selected to compete for the national championship. The Big 12 wasn’t expected to get a team in this year because league champion Oklahoma had two losses, but if they had…
A 24 point victory over the Jacksonville Dolphins on Monday was exactly what the K-State basketball players and coaches needed going into the Christmas break, but the fan base is still not impressed. There has been some more football news in the last few days, so let’s take a look at everything that’s happening with K-State athletics…. “After a series of double-digit losses and narrow victories to start the season, the Wildcats put it all together — or at…