Kansas State Wildcats Background Ticket 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).

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.

The favorite sport of the Kansas State Wildcats is definitely basketball. 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. Their first conference titles they got 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.

As any other team, the Kansas State Wildcats always had their rivalries. The oldest one is the University of Kansas. Their rivalry 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 and, 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 in the top ten of the AP Poll (the Associated Press Poll).

Talking about football it should be mentioned that the Kansas State Wildcats have recently become the winners in the game against the University of Texas (on the eleventh of November, 2006). They owe their recent wins to their new head coach Ron Prince. The team participated in many Bowl games and won six of them (the Copper Bowl in 1982, the Holiday Bowl in 1995, 1999, and 2002, the Fiesta Bowl in 1997, and the Cotton Bowl in 2001).

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