At the end of a long, tiring practice, Kansas State men’s basketball coach Jack Hartman would bring his team together and had them work on a final discipline.
“The delay game, our version of the Four Corners,” former Wildcats star Rolando Blackman said. “We’d practice it so many times, and everybody would be frustrated because it always came at the end of a hard practice and we never seemed to use it.”
But there was this one time…
Blackman’s game-winning shot against top-ranked Oregon State to win an NCAA Tournament second-round game in 1981 remains perhaps the biggest bucket in K-State hoops history, depicted on the cover of the next week’s Sports Illustrated.