Kansas State Wildcats Information
The Kansas State Wildcats are the teams of the Kansas State University. Their major color is royal purple, but sometimes the teams also use white and silver as their secondary colors. The Kansas State Wildcats are the members of the NCAA (the National Collegiate Athletics Association) Division I and the Big Twelve Conference. The main sports are football, basketball, cross country, track, baseball, and golf (for both mens and womens teams); tennis, rowing, equestrian, and volleyball (only for women).
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The Kansas State Wildcats were also the participants of several other conferences: from 1913 to 1928 of the Missouri Valley Conference, from 1928 to 1947 of the Big 7 Conference, from 1947 to 1958 of the Big 8 Conference, and from 1958 up to now of the Big 12 Conference.
Basketball is definitely the favorite sport of the Kansas State Wildcats. Presently the team uses the Bramlage Coliseum, which is situated in Manhattan, Kansas. They played their first game in 1902. The basketball program was very successful. They got their first conference titles already in 1917 and 1919. All in all, they have won seventeen conference titles. The Kansas State Wildcats have the right to participate in twenty-two National Collegiate Athletics Associations. Most likely, the best season for the Kansas State Wildcats was 1959, when the team became the Number One in the Associated Press Roll.
The Bramlage Coliseum, the home to the Kansas State Wildcats, is situated in Manhattan, Kansas State. It was opened in 1988, and has the seating capacity of 13 and half a thousand spectators. The first game was victorious. The Kansas State Wildcats won over the Purdue University.
As any other team, the Kansas State Wildcats always had their rivals. The oldest one is the University of Kansas. Their rival was called the Sunflower Showdown (Sunflower is the official nickname of the state of Kansas). There were a number of very successful Kansas State Wildcats head coaches, who helped the team during their hard and thorny career, like Guy Lowman, Jack Hartman, Lon Kruger, Bob Huggins (their current coach).
The Kansas State Wildcats womens basketball team started playing only in 1968. At the moment it is one of the top fifteen all-time winning programs in the National Collegiate Athletics Association. Women took part in fourteen NCAA and AIAW (the Association for the Intercollegiate Athletics for Women) basketball competitions. In 1984, 2003 and 2004 the Kansas State Wildcats womens team finished up in the top ten of the AP Poll (the Associated Press Poll).
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