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John Kurtz
3 years
I had to rant today. I'm tired of the anti-Big 12 narratives that get constantly repeated nationally. A new-look Big 12 could absolutely be every bit as good on the field as the Pac 12 - and the numbers prove it. H/T @Dlew56
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1 year
“You can doubt the Chiefs. You can dislike the Chiefs. You can disrespect the Chiefs. You’re gonna have to deal with the Chiefs!” - epic call from Mitch Holthus
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2 years
Joe Burrow has officially matched the “lose a Super Bowl thanks to your brutal OL” part of Patrick Mahomes’ resume. Only an MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and three more conference title games to go.
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John Kurtz
2 years
Damn, man. Oklahoma betrayed at a crucial time by somebody they thought they trusted. You have to feel for them. They would never do that very same thing, you know?
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John Kurtz
4 years
What a glorious three months it’s been for this college basketball cathedral
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1 year
Has there been a more awesome play in K-State history?
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John Kurtz
3 years
Former Manhattan High Indian and reigning D2 player of the year Trevor Hudgins told ESPN he's staying at Northwest Missouri and not entering the portal to go D1: "My coach took a chance on me when not a lot of teams did. He believed in me and that's my reason for going back."
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7 months
This is lame as hell from Pat McAfee. Absolute trash. Lost a lot of respect for him.
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Awful Announcing
7 months
Earlier this week, Wazzu head coach Jake Dickert and former QB Ryan Leaf criticized College GameDay for turning Oregon State-Washington State into a joke. Pat McAfee appeared to respond this morning. And then some.
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2 years
Texas Tech fans stole a code to buy up seats in Austin, forced Texas to kick out their own students from the game, and beat Chris Beard’s ass for a second time this year. At least there’s that 5-7 football team to fall back on.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Lmao how are people complaining about this?
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5 months
You have to hand it to Texas. Nobody takes 14 years to build a conference championship roster like the Longhorns. Nobody.
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John Kurtz
2 years
Texas and Oklahoma: good enough for the SEC, not good enough to play for a Big 12 title.
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John Kurtz
10 months
Big 12 Deputy Commissioner Tim Weiser on UT/OU: “I think their (decision) was more about affiliating with a group of schools…they would rather get beat by Alabama than Kansas State. Or Florida than Iowa State." Full interview: …
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2 years
Patrick Mahomes dominating with Derrick Gore, Byron Pringle, Mecole Hardman, and Darrel Williams as his leading receivers. Say it with me: Patrick Mahomes is the best QB in the world, and it’s not particularly close.
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John Kurtz
5 months
From Nae’Qwan Tomlin’s Instagram story
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John Kurtz
9 months
This will absolutely be the most fun football league in the country. Not the best, but the most fun.
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Dean Straka
9 months
This will be an official college athletic conference in one year from now.
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John Kurtz
3 years
Byron Pringle once lost a scholarship to Youngstown State. Now, he’s going to play in a second straight Super Bowl and do it in his hometown of Tampa. Congrats, BP!
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John Kurtz
1 year
No matter what happens the rest of the way, Duggan deserves the Heisman and TCU is absolutely a playoff team
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1 year
Try to watch Deuce Vaughn’s Dad react to his team picking his son without tearing up.
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2 years
Top 5 sports moment I’ve experienced live
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4 years
When the okie doke comes back around to get you. Gavin Potter edition.
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2 years
Tuttle Creek Lake - Manhattan, Kansas
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John Kurtz
5 years
Dean Wade and Barry Brown kiss the floor.
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5 years
Awesome moment for Skylar Thompson and his father after the game.
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John Kurtz
4 years
Xavier Sneed kisses the floor on his way out.
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John Kurtz
1 year
All it took was Oklahoma and Texas leaving for the Big 12 to finally win a playoff game
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2 years
Byron Pringle looking like a boss in that K-State letterman jacket
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John Kurtz
2 years
Four star RB Dylan Edwards picks K-State over Nebraska and Oklahoma. Let that sink in.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Inject this 35 seconds of cat hoops straight into my freaking veins
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1 year
Malik Knowles on IG live: “I’m straight. I ain’t missing the Sugar Bowl.”
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John Kurtz
8 months
The full Avery Johnson highlight reel from yesterday. He is going to be an absolute star.
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John Kurtz
9 months
Texas *leaves the conference after plotting behind everyone’s back* The conference *reacts how anybody would after somebody did that to them* Texas fans *ZOMG this is illegal!!!11!1!1*
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Joe Cook
9 months
Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark today: “Coach (Joey McGuire), I’m not going to put any pressure on you, but I’m going to be in Austin on Thanksgiving. And you better take care of business like you did right here in Lubbock last year.”
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John Kurtz
1 year
Ish Massoud better never buy a drink in Manhattan, Kansas ever again.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Happy for Utah, man. They deserve it.
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Mountain West
1 year
BIG news coming tomorrow 👀⏳
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John Kurtz
8 months
The Big 12 has losses to: - Miami (OH) - Wyoming - South Alabama - Missouri - Texas State - Rice - Ohio Big yikes
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John Kurtz
1 year
K-State QB royalty, baybeee
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1 year
Love this man
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1 year
If this isn’t the most Eli Drinkwitz Mizzou clip possible, I don’t know what is
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John Kurtz
2 years
The Big 12 championship game had twice as many viewers as the PAC 12 title game and four times as many as the ACC title game.
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1 year
Man of the people: Jerome Tang
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1 year
Tang on post game radio: This kind of energy should be in this building every night because we’re playing. I hate to be selfish but we kind of deserve this.
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John Kurtz
2 years
K-State’s Ayoka Lee just set an NCAA record with 61 points against #14 Oklahoma. She leaves the game with as many points as the Sooners have as a team.
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John Kurtz
1 year
PUT MARKQUIS NOWELL IN THE RAFTERS RIGHT THE HELL NOW
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John Kurtz
7 months
So close, AI. So close. Lmao.
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1 year
Tang on post game radio: we have done our job. Now it’s time for the K-State family to show up on Tuesday. It should be standing room only.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Can we talk about Keenan Garber holding his own at corner against #3 TCU in the Big 12 title game after switching from receiver less than a month ago?
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John Kurtz
2 years
K-State was picked 7th in the Big 12 and fired its OC: 8-5 Texas Tech was picked 9th in the Big 12 and fired its head coach: 7-6 Iowa State with the most loaded roster in school history and a preseason top ten ranking: 7-6
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John Kurtz
1 year
Very cool moment for Skylar Thompson after getting the Dolphins to the playoffs for the first time in seven years
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John Kurtz
5 months
Guys, here's the only play we have. Absolutely pack Bramlage the rest of the year. Show as much love with your actions to Jerome Tang and the coaching staff as you possibly can. None of us can control the actions of a university president, but we damn sure can control ours.
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1 year
Tang on post game radio: our fans were incredible. The energy they gave us…I am so proud of our students and all of our fans. Those are my people and I absolutely love ‘em.
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John Kurtz
1 year
The world would be a far better place with more Jerome Tangs
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Jared Koller
1 year
After Kansas State's heartbreaking loss, @CoachJTang greets every Wildcat player and coach entering the locker room, telling them to keep their head up. @KCTV5 @MarleahKCTV5 #EMAW
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2 years
A no call in Allen Fieldhouse
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1 year
K-State could have won the Sugar Bowl, they just didn’t want to be there.
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John Kurtz
4 years
Nebraska lost this game 49-13 in Manhattan and let a QB run for 228 yards on them.
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Dan Corey
4 years
Nebraska fans getting on Twitter ready to fight anyone and everyone. #Huskers
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John Kurtz
1 year
Felix Anudike-Uzomah is a Kansas City kid who just got drafted by the world champion hometown team IN KANSAS CITY. Unreal.
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John Kurtz
2 years
I agree with this take in general, but my god it’s infuriating to see this sentiment about the Pac 12 when there was none of this for the Big 12 last year.
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Dan Wetzel
2 years
There is currently a fight to keep the Pac 12 together. If you love college football, you should root for the league to survive.
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John Kurtz
5 months
It's time
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John Kurtz
1 year
Big 12 Standings 1. K-State Everyone else
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John Kurtz
5 months
Words cannot describe how badly this fan base needed this
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K-State Football
5 months
Mission hasn’t changed @avery2johnson
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John Kurtz
1 year
Felix Anudike-Uzomah (from KC) drafted by the Chiefs Julius Brents (from Indy) drafted by the Colts Josh Hayes (from Tampa) drafted by the Buccaneers Deuce Vaughn (from Round Rock/Austin) drafted by the Cowboys Absolutely unreal
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John Kurtz
9 months
Not really sure why Texas fans are so upset by Yormark telling Tech to take care of business when they play in Austin. The "Big 12 is going to make us lose" conspiracy theory is a perfect built-in excuse for the inevitable 14th straight disappointing season. I'd embrace it 🤷‍♀️
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John Kurtz
4 years
You know your program is in a great spot when you're dialing up revenge games against Coastal Carolina.
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Marleah Campbell
4 years
After losing to Coastal Carolina in 2019, KU's Pooka Williams ( @PookaWilliamsJr ) says the team is ready for revenge in their season opener: "We rescheduled them for a reason." #kufball
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John Kurtz
9 months
A sitting Big 12 AD subtweeting a new Big 12 AD. This league.
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Wren Baker
9 months
There are two kinds of people in the world. People who love West Virginia and people who haven’t been here. #HailWV
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John Kurtz
2 years
Elite 11, 4 star QB Avery Johnson is staying home to play for K-State.
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John Kurtz
9 months
George came crawling back to the Big 12 post USC and UCLA and got turned down. Pac 12 propaganda machine was furious at this characterization of it last fall, but Dellenger corroborates that the Big 12 was the one who said no. Amazing.
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John Kurtz
1 year
The Pac 12 had a stand-alone game on Friday night with huge playoff implications and their biggest brand (that is leaving soon) playing and was almost 3.5 million behind two non-OU/Texas Big 12 teams.
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Sports TV Ratings
1 year
Conference Championships per ShowBuzzDaily: SEC LSU/Georgia: 10.894M Big 10 Purdue/Mich: 10.699M Big 12 Ks State/TCU: 9.413M Pac 12: Utah/USC: 5.967M ACC: 3.467M AAC: 2.695M Mt. West: 1.938M
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John Kurtz
1 year
Monster — and I mean monster — loser energy here
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Rob Collins
1 year
Kentucky Coach John Calipari's opening statement after losing to #KState . The "Little Kid" @MrNewYorkCityy put up 27 points and 9 assists. #KStateMBB
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John Kurtz
2 years
The officials really had to get a grip on this game after LSU couldn’t handle the attitude and physicality of…K-State’s kicker
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John Kurtz
9 months
Okay it has officially taken me 24 hours of Arizona State being in the conference to fully and completely understand the leadership problem at Arizona State.
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Mountaineers Now
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Well that was unexpected… #WVU
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K-State can still make the Big 12 Championship game if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing
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John Kurtz
1 year
I respect the hell out of FAU. KenPom thinks they’re just as good as K-State. I will also never take a tourney game for granted after losing in the E8 to Butler and Loyola. But consider how wild this sentence is: If K-State beats FAU, they’re in the final four.
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1 year
Deuce Vaughn and his Dad
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John Kurtz
9 months
The Big 12 acted the way it did BECAUSE the SEC forced it to by poaching four teams over the last 12 years, including the two biggest brands. Such an annoying/maddening/tired narrative.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Win the whole damn thing @TCUFootball
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John Kurtz
1 year
Guys I swear I’m not trying to spam your timeline with highlights, but they keep doing this
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John Kurtz
5 months
Texas is 1000% not SEC-ready if they’re this concerned with how they were treated by Texas Tech
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Danny Davis
5 months
Interesting note from @kbohls ’ 9 Things column about the future of the Texas-Texas Tech rivalry. I’ve long thought that baseball is the only sport in which both schools would mutually benefit from continuing to play, but there would be logistical issues with even that. #HookEm
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John Kurtz
2 years
Great win at Bill Snyder Family Stadium South tonight
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John Kurtz
4 months
This was the breaking point for Tang
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John Kurtz
3 months
Mood
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John Kurtz
1 year
THIS TEAM
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John Kurtz
5 years
If you didn’t already love @spedbraet , listen to him describe how happy he is to be retained on the @KStateFB staff.
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John Kurtz
4 years
No matter what the future holds for Skylar Thompson, he deserves a ton of credit for sticking around after what happened in 2018 and becoming the centerpiece of the transition from Snyder to Klieman. Great dude who cares as much about his team as anybody I've covered here.
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John Kurtz
1 year
I freaking love these guys, man. An absolutely perfect way to wrap up the season at the OOD.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Long live the King
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John Kurtz
4 months
I love DJ Giddens so much lmao
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John Kurtz
1 year
Back to our regularly scheduled programming
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John Kurtz
1 year
Kill the chant, rent free, all of it. I’m in 🫡
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John Kurtz
1 year
I’m here for it. Students, I don’t want to kill your fun, I get it. But for the good of us all, this thing has run its course.
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D. Scott Fritchen
1 year
Jerome Tang discusses his decision to climb onto the scorer’s table after the emotional win over No. 2 Kansas in Manhattan
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John Kurtz
1 year
Can we talk about this blurb from Dennis Dodd's CBS Sports piece? K-State is now beefing up the Big 12's TV deal.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Jerome Tang’s first year - Naismith Coach of the Year - Big 12 Coach of the Year - Bob Cousy Award (Best PG) - Elite Eight Not too shabby
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John Kurtz
1 year
I know a place Arizona could get better competition in the regular season to prepare itself for the tourney
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John Kurtz
2 years
Have you ever seen a more blatant targeting penalty in your life? My god.
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John Kurtz
1 year
Will Howard is the first quarterback in NCAA history to lead six touchdown drives while playing with scarlet fever
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John Kurtz
2 years
Straight. Into. My. Veins.
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John Kurtz
4 years
Don't you dare tell Chris Klieman this win was anything but beautiful...
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John Kurtz
2 years
Few things will ever be as awesome as Ell Roberson telling Jammal Lord during the coin toss that he was going to destroy him, then handing him Nebraska’s worst home loss in almost 50 years.
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John Kurtz
4 months
The gargantuan brand of K-State strikes again
@FOS
Front Office Sports
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The Pop-Tarts Bowl between Kansas State and NC State drew the largest audience of ANY bowl game so far — averaging 4.3 million viewers on ESPN. (h/t @paulsen_smw )
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John Kurtz
5 years
Barry Brown says his dunk at the end was retribution from the dunk in Lawrence his freshman year: “shout out Brannen Greene”
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John Kurtz
1 year
Not sure if you guys know this, but if K-State beats West Virginia and Kansas, they’ll play TCU for a Big 12 Championship in Arlington.
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