There was a 55-year stretch when the following men worked the sideline as Kansas State’s basketball coach:
Jack Gardner, Tex Winter, Cotton Fitzsimmons, Jack Hartman, Lon Kruger, Dana Altman.
Gardner is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Kruger is likely to join him there someday. And the careers of Winter (College Basketball Hall), Fitzsimmons, Hartman and Altman make them worthy candidates, to varying degrees.
Anyone who views Kansas State as KU’s little basketball brother is only paying attention to a relatively short period of history. A profound one, indeed. But short.
K-State obviously hasn’t been keeping up with the Jayhawks all that well of late.