No complaints about lack of news today. Basketball, golf and volleyball all chip in with storylines. Oh, there’s a football game in red dirt country on Saturday, too.
Monday’s big news was Kansas State landing at number 12 of the Associated Press pre-season basketball poll. This marks only the 17th time in history that the Wildcats begin the year ranked, and the ranking is K-State’s highest since 2010-2011, when they began the year No. 3 in the land. The AP poll is in line with other prognostications, from NBCSports, Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated and others, all of which rank the ‘Cats between No.