MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Kansas State athletic director John Currie has signed a contract extension to remain with the school through June 2018. School president Kirk Schulz announced the extension Wednesday. Currie will make $450,000 for 2012-13, with his salary increasing $25,000 for each remaining year. The extension also includes an enhanced retention incentive structure. [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Oklahoma State president Burns Hargis says the Big 12 is satisfied at 10 teams, though he acknowledged that if Notre Dame was interested in joining the league, “that’s something we would have to pursue.” Hargis, who chairs the league’s board of directors, spoke Thursday during the Big 12′s annual meetings at [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Big 12 favors a four-team playoff to decide college football’s national champion, and supports some kind of selection committee to determine its participants. Interim commissioner Chuck Neinas also said the league is content with 10 members after inviting TCU and West Virginia, though he left open the possibility of revisiting [...]
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State coach Bruce Weber is rounding out his coaching staff by hiring former Illinois standout Chester Frazier as an assistant coach. Frazier will earn a base salary of $135,000. He joins former Southern Illinois coach Chris Lowery and Alvin Brooks III as assistant coaches, while Brad Korn will be director of [...]
Bruce Weber, one of the winningest active Division I coaches with over 300 career wins and eight NCAA Tournament appearances to his credit, has been named the 24th head men’s basketball coach at Kansas State, Athletics Director John Currie announced. Weber agreed to a 5-year contract, which was approved by the K-State Athletics, Inc., Board [...]
Kansas City, MO – Frank Martin is about to become head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. That’s according to the Star, which on Monday quoted a source that confirmed a report in a Columbia, South Carolina paper revealing that Martin will be formally introduced on Tuesday. In addition, The State reported that the university’s [...]
PITTSBURGH – It had been a while since Syracuse played like the team that spent all season ranked in the top five. In the second half Saturday, the top-seeded Orange looked like that group and maybe even better, pulling away to a 75-59 victory over eighth-seeded Kansas State in the third round of the East [...]
PITTSBURGH – Frank Martin watched freshman point guard Angel Rodriguez flub his way through the first half against Southern Miss on Thursday and tried to keep his sanity. At one point the always animated Martin feared Rodriguez and his fellow freshmen were “going to make me cry on national TV.” Tears of joy, maybe. Rodriguez [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Never fond of conference tournaments to begin with, this sure didn’t change Frank Martin’s mind. Apparently hitting their peak just in time for the postseason, Martin’s Kansas State Wildcats cruised into the Big 12 tournament after winning four of their last five. They even had a one-point win at Baylor. But [...]
Kansas forward Thomas Robinson has been voted the Big 12′s best player by league coaches, while Bill Self was picked as co-coach of the year along withIowaState’s Fred Hoiberg. Robinson was joined on the All-Big 12 first team on Sunday by teammate Tyshawn Taylor. The Cyclones’ Royce White, Marcus Denmon of Missouri and J’Covan Brown [...]
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