Kansas State track and field coach Cliff Rovelto is happy he was wrong.
Rovelto predicts the results of every meet before it begins. On Friday, as the Big 12 outdoor championships began, he analyzed the competition and predicted the K-State women would finish fourth, totaling about 100 points behind Baylor, Oklahoma and Texas. Not bad, he thought, for a young team.
So you can imagine the emotions that flowed through his body as he watched the Wildcats pile up a program-record 133 points over the next three days and win a conference championship, their third overall and first since 2002, on Sunday in Lawrence.