By Tim Everson

After a successful showing last Saturday in Kansas State’s 18th-straight victory over rival Kansas in the Sunflower Showdown, the Wildcats’ received recognition after two standout performances on defense and special teams.

Junior kicker Luis Rodriguez and freshman defensive back Nick McClellan were named the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week and Big 12 Freshman of the Week, respectively, the conference office announced on Monday.

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After Saturday, Kansas State football’s Sunflower Showdown streak can stroll into any local gas station, buy itself a lottery ticket, and then maybe, after that, some fireworks.

Heck, here in a few weeks, it can vote in its first election.

The Wildcats (4-2, 1-2 Big 12) used a strong final three quarters to come away with their 18th-straight win over rival Kansas (2-4, 0-3), 35-24, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan.

“Proud of our guys; thought the resiliency and the fight through the ebbs and flows of the ball game were fantastic,” said head coach Collin Klein, who won his first Big 12 game as a head coach on Saturday. “The energy and the camaraderie and the communication to fix some of the issues that we were having and to stay together through those ups and downs was, so proud of them and so proud of the effort and the focus that they had this week of knowing what a big game this was to our program and our players and all K-Staters everywhere.”

After a first quarter in which the Wildcats fell behind by 10 points, K-State’s defense managed to hold the Jayhawks to just one more touchdown in the rest of the game, while the K-State offense absolutely ran the visitors over, ending the game with 359 rushing yards as part of a 568-yard day.

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By Tim Everson

For the second week in a row, a former two-year Kansas State player will make his return to Manhattan on the opposing sideline.

But unlike former QB great Michael Bishop, who received a warm welcome from K-State and Wildcat fans in general as an assistant coach for Houston Saturday, this return is a little more complicated.

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By Tim Everson

Reinforcements are on the way for Kansas State women’s basketball after losing two players to season-ending injuries in the offseason.

K-State’s top commit for the 2027 class Maddie Vickery announced Tuesday on social media that she would be graduating high school at semester and joining the Wildcats for the spring.

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By Tim Everson

Kansas State had an opportunity to secure its first ranked win of Collin Klein’s tenure on Saturday. Instead, the first-year head coach got his first embarrassment.

The Wildcats fell at home 35-16 to No. 22 Houston in a game that was only competitive for a quarter.

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By Tim Everson

Kansas State women’s basketball is down another member of their front-court after a season-ending injury sustained over the weekend.

Wildcat junior center Ramiya White has suffered a lower body injury and will miss the entirety of the 2026-27 season, head coach Jeff Mittie has announced.

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By Tim Everson

Kansas State football and head coach Collin Klein had a little extra time to stew on their Sept. 26 loss at Cincinnati after not playing a game last weekend.

While the Wildcats would’ve preferred to get back on the field to try and get that bad taste out of their mouths, a week of rest may have been more beneficial.

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K-State is taking out a loan to pay off Jerome Tang.

Athletics Director Gene Taylor confirmed to The Mercury Monday that his department will borrow the money in a traditional bank loan, so as to get Tang the $12 million he is owed under the terms of a settlement over his firing.

The Mercury reported last Thursday that both sides had agreed to that figure; the K-State Athletics board of directors formally approved it Monday.

Taylor said K-State doesn’t have $12 million in cash lying around.

“If we had to come up with that out of cash, it would’ve hurt us,” he said. The university itself also doesn’t subsidize the athletics operation, so using university money here wasn’t an option as it is in some other universities around the country.

Asking donors to pony up for the buyout was also not an appealing option, he said, “because of everything else we’re asking from them.”

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Following a buyout settlement with former Wildcat men’s basketball head coach Jerome Tang, Kansas State will save several million dollars.

After months of negotiations, Tang and K-State settled their dispute over an $18.7 million buyout following his firing in February for $12 million, The Mercury confirmed with K-State Thursday afternoon.

The former basketball coach, who opened Big 12 play with a 1-11 record, was fired midway through his fourth season “for cause” in February after publicly criticizing his players for lackluster effort in a home loss to Cincinnati on Feb. 11.

“These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform; there will be very few of them in it next year,” Tang said following a home blowout, a 29-point loss that stood as one of the 10 worst in program history.

“It means something to wear a K-State uniform. It means something to put on this purple … I love this place. They don’t love this place, so they don’t deserve to be here.”

Tang’s contract said K-State owed him $18.7 million if he was fired based solely on his record, but it said he would get nothing if K-State fired him “for cause.”

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By Tim Everson

The top priority for the Kansas State football team over the off week is finding a way to fix what appeared to be a strength earlier in the season.

After three solid weeks, the Wildcats’ run defense buckled in Saturday’s 31-26 loss to Cincinnati.

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