A pair of former Kansas State football players have accepted invitations to participate in the NFL Draft Scouting Combine later this month in Indianapolis. Sam Hecht and VJ Payne will both represent the Wildcats.

Kansas State students wore paper bags over their heads during a game, protesting the team's poor performance and calling for the coach's buyout.

Kansas State basketball is in turmoil, with coach Jerome Tang's future in question, a string of losses and player absences.

The Kansas State football team has never employed an offensive coordinator like Sean Gleeson. He will supervise the offense at practice, and he will make suggestions during games, but he won’t call plays. That job will instead go to new head coach Collin Klein.

It wasn’t enough, though. The Horned Frogs (14-9, 4-6 Big 12) battled back from a big deficit and pulled ahead thanks to a pair of free throws from Xavier Edmonds with 6.7 seconds remaining. That gave TCU an 83-82 lead, and it was able to close out the game.

Mark Vital, a former Baylor player who is currently working as a graduate assistant for the Wildcats, was arrested for domestic battery at 12:20 a.m. on Monday at the 600 block of Vattier Street in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department’s daily crime log.

Kansas State knocked off Oklahoma State while Iowa State and Kansas both lost in regional women’s college basketball on Tuesday.

Mark Vital, a member of the Kansas State men’s basketball coaching staff, was arrested Monday morning in Manhattan. Vital, a graduate assistant for the Wildcats, was arrested for domestic battery at 12:20 a.

Marcus Johnson’s first 22 games with the Kansas State men’s basketball team came and went without much of anything happening for the senior forward. He scored a grand total of five points to go along with nine rebounds and one assist in 39 minutes of action.

Kansas State head coach Collin Klein announced five more signings for the 2026 recruiting class