K-State Slate, 5/6/08

by TB on May 6, 2008 3:55 PM CDT in News

They're ~~No. 1~~ No.3/4: Tonight, the Bat Cats welcome No. 1 3/4 Arizona State to Manhattan. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m., so if you're in or near Manhattan, you should definitely head over to Tointon. It's not every decade that the best baseball team in the country comes to MHK. If you're listening on the radio, feel free to track the game's progress in the comments.

The Season Lives! Despite a disappointing finish at the Big 12 championships, the men's golf team will live to play another three days. Tim Norris's crew was selected as a participant in the NCAA West Regionals, to take place May 15-17 in Bremerton, Wash. That's an important accomplishment for a program that has been struggling to regain the level of play it exhibited from 2002-04. Good luck on the west coast, Cats!

Stay Safe, Manhattan: A Sabetha man is in custody after a stabbing last night east of campus left two people injured. Not enough details at this point to know whether it included any K-State students, although the perpetrator is apparently not a student.

It's not me, it's you: A news flash to the NCAA: when you enact regulations with which 700 of your teams cannot comply, the regulations may be flawed. I wrote about this academic progress report last year at the old blog, and my contentions remain. In many ways, the standards the NCAA has promulgated do not reliably deter problematic academic behavior as much as they punish teams for things like transfers.

I'd like to dig into this more deeply, but with two finals in the next 41 hours, I simply don't have the time. Such inquiry may be a project for the summer. Leave any thoughts you may have in the comments or a diary.

Wish me luck. The next two days will probably be pretty light around here, but after that I'm blissfully finished with my second year of graduate school.

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We beat No. 1!

The Bat Cats downed the top-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils, 7-6. Great game for the Cats, even though at this point we can't do enough to get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Great confidence-boosting win, though, now let's hope they can carry it forward into the next two conference series.

We'll carry the banner high!

by TB on May 6, 2008 10:08 PM CDT reply actions

OK, that's a lie

Arizona State is either No. 3 or 4, depending on which poll you read.

We'll carry the banner high!

by TB on May 6, 2008 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Huge win for the Bat Cats

Congratulations. I hope K-State is using up all their big wins now, before they match up with KU. K-State is really coming on stong in the second half of the season. That last series should be a hell of a battle. KU and KSU both peaking late.

Here is the most recent Big-12 Baseball RPI update. K-State might break into the top-50 after tonight. I think you are right, an at-large bid is no longer possible due to the Wildcats overall record, but they sure are impressing the computer at least.

The win tonight helps out the whole conference. Just one more indication to the national writers that the Big-12 is every bit as good as the SEC, Pac-10 and ACC. It is amazing, but there are still people out there who doubt this fact.

by James Quinn on May 6, 2008 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions