K-State women’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie wished for improvement in his first year, and he accomplished just that with a record above .500. Next on his list was to bolster the program’s nonconference schedule.
Tuesday, Mittie checked that off as well when he announced that the program will face three-time defending NCAA National Champions Connecticut in a home-and-home series beginning next season.
“The goals when I took the job a year ago were very simple: one, get us competitive right away and I thought our group this year did that,” Mittie said. “Secondly, it was to improve our nonconference schedule and to bring marquee opponents in during the conference portion of the schedule, because I felt like that was important for not only for our progress as a program but also, when you look across the country, those type of matchups get a lot of attention.