Jacob Pullen

K-State held on to outlast #22 Missouri's rally and get their sixth win in February, 80-70 in Bramlage Coliseum. K-State (20-9) opened the game on a 10-0 run to put Missouri on their heels. Senior Jacob Pullen started the game seven points shy of 2,000 points and eclipsed that after first three minutes, going 3-for-3 from three point range. He finished the game with 24 points. Curtis Kelly added 15. The Tigers (22-7) cut the lead to seven in the first half but K-State kept the pressure up and led 41-38 at halftime.

It seemed like the gap between the KU and K-State programs had closed after the 2009-10 season and with K-State beginning this season as a pre-season top three team in the country. But following a 90-66 Jayhawk drubbing to K-State, it seems like the gap has grown wider. KU (20-1) was good in the first half, great in the second half and the Wildcats (14-8) were simply bad. Shooting only 33 percent from the floor, a dismal 19 percent in the first half. This game was a cathartic release for Kansas and especially Thomas Robinson who endured a terribly tragic three weeks where he lost both his grandparents and his mother, Lisa, and attended her funeral on Thursday.

Two-time All-American Jacob Pullen has signed his first professional contract with Pallacanestro Biella, also known as Angelico Biella, of the Italian League.   The school’s all-time leading scorer with 2,132 points, Pullen will join a squad that posted an 11-19 overall record in the Series A of the Italian League, the highest level of professional basketball in the country.     The team is based in the town of Biella in northwest Italy, which has a population of around 50,000 at the foothills of the Alps.  It is around 50 miles from Turin (site of the 2006 Winter Olympics)

Senior Rodney McGruder was named a preseason Top 50 candidate for the John R. Wooden Award by the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Thursday. The Wooden list, which reflects the early frontrunners for one of college basketball's Premier Player of the Year awards, is based on last year's individual performance and team records.  Transfers, freshmen and medical redshirts are not eligible for the preseason list.  These players and others who excel during...

By Bryan Holmgren (OKLAHOMA CITY) Watch and learn, Villanova. This is how it's supposed to be done. One of the fun parts of the tournament is the occasional opportunity to step away from "work" to watch the end of tight games. Most every member of the media is also a basketball fan and even though we do our best to keep up professional appearance, it's tough to avoid ooohing or gasping after a big shot or an exciting finish. When Murray State dumped Vanderbilt (2005.

Mario Little's three-point play broke a tie with 71 seconds to go and Oklahoma State missed a desperation heave at the buzzer, allowing No. 2 Kansas to escape with a 63-62 victory Thursday in the second round of the Big 12 tournament. Big 12 player of the year Marcus Morris, shut down most of the second half, hit a key 3-pointer for the Jayhawks (30-2). Kansas trailed by as many as eight until Oklahoma State (19-13) got in deep foul trouble in the second half. Keiton Page had 23 points and Jean-Paul Olukemi had 17 for Oklahoma State, which did a good job of keeping Marcus and Markieff Morris away from the basket and forced the Jayhawks out deep.

Kansas men’s basketball junior forward Marcus Morris was recently named a Dickie V’s Second-Team Preseason All-American. “This is great and shows how hard we have been working this summer,” Morris said during a break from training with the USA Basketball Select Team in Las Vegas, a team that will train against the USA National Team consisting of NBA players. “Preseason rankings and teams like this are about potential and I hope we can use this for motivation.

by Bryan Holmgren Wisconsin 72, Kansas State 55 K-State raised our hopes with a rousing performance against USC on Thursday. Tonight they were done in the by same achilles heel that's doomed them all season long: inconsistancy. Sure the Cats have shown an ability to raise themselves that extra level. They just can't seem to do it on a regular basis. March has a way of making you dream a little. What exactly made us think that the Wildcats had suddenly turned the corner against equally fickle USC?

Kansas State added a second exhibition game to its 2010-11 men’s basketball schedule on Wednesday, as the Wildcats will open their highly-anticipated season against Division II Newman University on Tuesday, Nov. 2. The exhibition gives K-State 19 home games in 2010-11, including five consecutive to start the season.  The 19 contests are the second-most home games in school history and the most since the 2008-09 squad played 20.  This also marks the first time since 2005-06 that the Wildcats have played two exhibition games.

He played basketball for Kansas State. Now successful actor and model Reggie Britt has returned to Manhattan, inspiring athletes and students alike. Many K-State fans remember number 31, forward Reggie Britt. He played for the Wildcats from 1988 to 1990, but not many people realize he didn't graduate and didn't get his degree. "I only had basketball on my mind and thought i'd finish it later. Well later turned into two years and two turned into five and so forth," Britt said. He was a part of the team that played in the gym when it was brand new. Now 20 years later Britt has returned.