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K-State WBB’s Jeff Mittie signs 1-year contract extension

KROCK Staff — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:09:10 +0000

For the second straight season, Kansas State is extending head women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie’s contract.

The one-year contract extension, announced by the team on Thursday, follows the Wildcats’ first Sweet 16 berth in over two decades and looks to keep Mittie in Manhattan until 2030.

Last year, Mittie signed a five-year contract through the 2028-29 season, which set his base salary for the 2024-25 season at $750,000. This year, that will go up $30,000, followed by $45,000 in 2026-27 and $50,000 in 2027-28 and 2028-29, meaning Mittie will have a base salary of $925,000 by the end of the deal.

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K-State women’s basketball signs Stanford’s Tess Heal to 2025-26 roster

KROCK Staff — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:55:58 +0000

Kansas State women’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie has added a decorated backcourt piece to the 2025-26 roster, as Tess Heal has signed with the Wildcats.

Heal is a product of Melbourne, Australia, and is the second player in program history from Australia (Rebekah Dallinger, 2021-24). She joins Virginia Tech center Ramiya White as the Wildcats’ two incoming transfers so far this season.

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WATCH: Mittie & players preview Sweet 16 matchup against USC

KROCK Staff — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:29:55 +0000

Kansas State’s matchup for their first Sweet 16 game in 23 years is set.

After taking down 12th-seeded Fairfield on Friday and No. 4 Kentucky in an overtime thriller on Sunday, the fifth-seeded Wildcats will face No. 1 USC in Spokane, Washington, for a shot at the Elite Eight.

This is what Coach Mittie and the players had to say yesterday from Spokane, Washington.

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A sweet send-off for the K-State Women’s Basketball Team

KROCK Staff — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:07:51 +0000

Fans gathered outside the Ice Family Basketball Center Thursday morning as the Wildcats departed for Spokane, Washington to play in the program’s first Sweet Sixteen since 2002.

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Beverly Stewart has been a season ticket holder for eight years and says she’s looking forward to Saturday’s game against No. 1 USC.

“We’ve had so much fun with this team,” she said. “We just need to send them out with another V.”

Fans Mike and Donna Miller say they go to every women’s basketball game and have admired the team’s grit and toughness.

“When Ayoka (Lee) was out and to see the other girls come together and everybody works to be a team is what it’s all about,” said Mike Miller.

Fans gathered to celebrate with the K-State women’s basketball team Thursday morning in the parking lot of the Ice Family Basketball Center. (Lewis Marien/The Mercury)

Donna Miller says it’s a big reason the team has come this far.

“They do a good job of representing Kansas State,” she said.

The Cats will play USC Saturday night at 7 pm. Radio coverage can be heard on News Radio KMAN and Sunny 102-5. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN.

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K-State women vaporize 12th-seeded Fairfield in NCAA tournament opener

KROCK Staff — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:08 +0000

By Tim Everson

If there was any worry about how the fifth-seeded Kansas State women would fare in the NCAA tournament after ending the season with losses in three of their last four games, let the Wildcats 44-point smackdown of No. 12 seed Fairfield put worried minds at ease.

K-State, led once again by star Ayoka Lee after more than two months of injury concerns, blasted the upstart Stags, leaving no doubt in a 85-41 opening-round win Friday afternoon in Lexington, Kentucky.

K-State (27-7) came out of the game red-hot, building as much as a 13-point lead, 17-4, midway through the first quarter.

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Watch: Jeff Mittie & players discuss overtime win over Iowa State

KROCK Staff — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:46:45 +0000

K-State needed an extra five minutes on Thursday night, but the Wildcats were perfect in the extra frame to hold back the upset bid from Iowa State, 87-79, at Bramlage Coliseum.

With its win on Thursday night, K-State secured the 28th 20-win season in program history. This is the fifth 20-win season under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie.

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Watch: Jeff Mittie & players discuss overtime win over Iowa State

KROCK Staff — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:46:45 +0000

K-State needed an extra five minutes on Thursday night, but the Wildcats were perfect in the extra frame to hold back the upset bid from Iowa State, 87-79, at Bramlage Coliseum.

With its win on Thursday night, K-State secured the 28th 20-win season in program history. This is the fifth 20-win season under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie.

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Jeff Mittie

Taryn Sides, Serena Sundell & Zy Walker

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Watch: Jeff Mittie & players discuss overtime win over Iowa State

KROCK Staff — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:46:45 +0000

K-State needed an extra five minutes on Thursday night, but the Wildcats were perfect in the extra frame to hold back the upset bid from Iowa State, 87-79, at Bramlage Coliseum.

With its win on Thursday night, K-State secured the 28th 20-win season in program history. This is the fifth 20-win season under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie.

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Jeff Mittie

Taryn Sides, Serena Sundell & Zy Walker

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Gap Goat disappears during K-State women’s basketball’s Utah trip

Paul Parker — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:58:40 +0000

By Zach DeLoach

The stuffed animal dressed in a purple jersey disappeared from the team hotel in Provo, Utah, Saturday before the Wildcats’ game at BYU. According to senior guard Serena Sundell, the last person to see Gap Goat, affectionately known as Gappy, was a team manager.

“They swear he was put in the conference room, and when they came back, he was gone,” Sundell said. “We don’t know if he’s lost or if he’s kidnapped or what.”

Before vanishing, Gap Goat sat with team managers behind the K-State (17-1, 5-0 Big 12) bench during games, and they lifted him up in celebration whenever the squad made three defensive stops in a row, which they call gaps.

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