The baseball squad played, and bad news from the weekend broke in Wildcat Land.
Former Kansas State football coach Jim Dickey, who led the Wildcats from 1978 until the second game of the 1985 season, died on Saturday in Houston. Although a whole generation has grown up with winning football at K-State, Dickey was the first to give Wildcat fans a taste of the post-season. In 1982, a year after red-shirting a host of upper-classmen, K-State went 6-5-1 and played Wisconsin in the Independence Bowl. On a miserable, cold, rainy night in Shreveport, Louisiana, the ‘Cats fell 14-3.