By Ned Seaton

K-State offered Jerome Tang the chance to coach out the rest of this basketball season and then resign with a negotiated payout at the end, but he turned down that offer and instead got fired for cause.

Athletics director Gene Taylor confirmed to The Mercury Monday that when he met with Tang Sunday morning, he offered Tang a choice: coach the rest of the season and then resign, or else be terminated immediately for cause. If Tang chose the former, there would be some kind of financial package offered to him in lieu of a buyout, at an undetermined amount that would be substantially less than the full buyout.

“We never gave him a specific number,” Taylor said.

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By Ned Seaton

K-State offered Jerome Tang the chance to coach out the rest of this basketball season and then resign with a negotiated payout at the end, but he turned down that offer and instead got fired for cause.

Athletics director Gene Taylor confirmed to The Mercury Monday that when he met with Tang Sunday morning, he offered Tang a choice: coach the rest of the season and then resign, or else be terminated immediately for cause. If Tang chose the former, there would be some kind of financial package offered to him in lieu of a buyout, at an undetermined amount that would be substantially less than the full buyout.

“We never gave him a specific number,” Taylor said.

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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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Jerome Tang has landed an international superstar to his 2025 roster. Adding 6’6” guard Andrej Kostic (Andre Cost-itch) from Serbia.

18 year old Kostic is currently playing for Serbian professional basketball club KK Dynamic Balken Bet. In 39 games this season, he is averaging 16.4 points, 2.7 assists, and 2.6 rebounds per game. He is also shooting the ball at a high clip at 43 percent from the floor, 36.2 percent from three, and 77 percent from the free throw line.

Had a 39 point game in Feb.

Kostic has been a member of the Serbian U18 National Team where he averages 15.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-5 guard helped the team win gold at the 2023 European U18 Championship. He also won silver with the same team in the 2024 championship, where he scored 23 points against the German U18 team.

Overall, the guard is commitment No. 5 for Kansas State in the 2025 recruiting class. He joins a class of transfers Nate Johnson, Abdi Bashir and Khamari McGriff and high school prospect Exavier Wilson.

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By Tim Everson

There will not be a postseason for the Kansas State men after Wednesday’s 70-56 loss to Baylor in the second round of the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City.

There was some thought heading into this week that if the Wildcats failed to run the table in Kansas City and earn the Big 12’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, that they’d accept an invitation to one of the more minor postseason opportunities.

Odds are they’d be able to return to the NIT, where they lost in the first round to Iowa last season, or they could hit Las Vegas.

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By Tim Everson

The question is inescapable for the Kansas State men, especially now that they’ve won six straight games after downing No. 13 Arizona Tuesday evening: What switch has flipped that’s turned the Wildcats from looking like one of the worst teams in the country into what is statistically the best team in the nation over the last three weeks.

No one knows the full answer. In fact, head coach Jerome Tang has joked several times that if he and his staff knew exactly what’s led to the Wildcats’ recent uptick, they would’ve done it sooner.

Some of it’s fairly basic. K-State assembled a roster that most agreed was loaded with talent. They had one of the top transfer portal classes in the country. With 10 new players on the roster and only one returner with significant playing time from previous seasons, the Wildcats needed time to gel and now, roughly two and a half months into the season, it’s happened.

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By Tim Everson

Former Kansas State basketball All-American Michael Beasley was arrested Sunday morning for possession of marijuana at Manhattan Regional Airport.

Beasley was found with just under six grams of marijuana while trying to board a plane, according to Riley County Police Department director Brian Peete.

He was booked and released on $750 bond.

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By John Elrod

Kansas State used grit, resilience, and a little bit of luck to secure another huge road win over Arizona State in a 71-70 thriller in Tempe on Tuesday night.

The win extends the Wildcats’ streak to four, putting them at 11-11 and 5-6 in Big 12 play.

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All five Wildcat starters scored in double figures, including a season-high 20 points from junior Dug McDaniel, as Kansas State snapped No. 3/3 Iowa State’s 29-game home court winning streak with an 80-61 victory on Saturday afternoon before a sold-out crowd of 14,267 fans at Hilton Coliseum.

K-State (10-11, 4-6 Big 12) became the first sub .500 in AP poll history to win by 15 or more points on the road against an AP top 5 opponent.

The win was the first over a Top 5 team on the road since a 56-54 win at No. 2 Baylor on Feb. 4, 2017. The 19-point margin is the largest-ever on a Top 5 team on the road. It is the first over Top 5 victory since a 75-70 overtime win over No. 4 Kansas at home on Feb. 5, 2024.

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By Tim Everson

One would be hard-pressed to find a regular-season victory sweeter than Kansas State’s 80-61 win at No. 3 Iowa State on Saturday.

It gave the Wildcats a win over a top-five team in one of the hardest places to win in the country. It also gave K-State its first three-game winning streak of the season. But perhaps most importantly, the Wildcats snapped a 15-game road losing streak that stretches back to January of 2024.

“Obviously, it’s huge,” head coach Jerome Tang said. “(Iowa State) is a great team, I think they are a team that can win a national championship with the pieces they have and when they’re fully healthy. So to win on the road, it was a challenge. We haven’t won a road game in a while, and I took it personally as a coach. I was thankful I had a team that took it personally also, and gave us this opportunity today.”

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