For the 14th time in school history, tied for 6th all time, your Kansas State Wildcats are in the Elite Eight, and poised to make a run into the Final Four. The last seven Wildcats squads have failed to make it past this level, and those have included some very good teams led by very good coaches.
Perhaps the last time the Wildcats were in this favorable position was in 2010, when the 2-seed Cats entered hot, and ready to face the 5-seed Butler Bulldogs. But that squad also won their Sweet 16 game in double overtime, as the last game of the night, and came in tired to the Elite Eight game and just didn’t have enough left to get past Gordon Haywood and his Bulldogs squad that eventually fell in the national championship game.