Welcome to your first (and hopefully not last) women’s basketball open game thread for your Kansas State Wildcats.
We’ve got a big game tonight. The Wildcats are finally ranked in the AP poll (though the coaches voting in the WBCA poll are still idiots), meaning tonight we have the first regular season matchup between ranked teams in Bramlage since the final regular season game of the 2016-17 season when the #24 Wildcats fell to the #12 Texas Longhorns before heading off to the Big 12 Tournament. And yes, regular season does need to be specified, because the Cats remained ranked through the NCAA Tournament, and the first round games that should have been hosted by Stanford were instead hosted in Manhattan due to scheduling conflicts.