KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Royals are installing additional netting at Kauffman Stadium that extends toward the outfield end of each team’s dugout to improve the safety for fans sitting along the foul lines.

Several clubs have considered ways to protect fans from foul balls hit into those seats, and some have suggested that similar netting should be mandatory in major league ballparks.

Royals vice president Kevin Uhlich said Wednesday that the club considered several options before deciding on the new netting. The club hopes it strikes a balance between safety and allowing fans sitting in premium seats to have the same kind of ballpark experience as in years past.

The World Series champion Royals play their home opener against the New York Mets on April 4.

Kansas Prep Scores
Tuesday’s Scores
By The Associated Press
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Andale 68, Circle 58
Andover Central 76, Maize South 70
Argonia 54, Oxford 47
Ashland 73, Rolla 22
Atchison 90, KC Schlagle 71
Attica 55, Pretty Prairie 38
Baldwin 60, Louisburg 59
Baxter Springs 69, Southeast 48
Bennington 62, Canton-Galva 51
Berean Academy 58, Remington 30
Bishop Miege 64, Blue Valley Southwest 48
Blue Valley Stillwell 66, Gardner-Edgerton 46
Bluestem 44, Chaparral 33
Buhler 74, Augusta 55
Central Plains 75, Ness City 52
Chase County 42, Madison/Hamilton 36
Colby 59, Goodland 42
Concordia 84, Phillipsburg 66
Derby 49, Hutchinson 47
Dodge City 79, Garden City 45
Doniphan West 53, Axtell 39
Eudora 66, DeSoto 50
Fredonia 101, Cherryvale 73
Garden Plains 55, Douglass 38
Girard 45, Pittsburg Colgan 34
Goddard-Eisenhower 73, Andover 51
Golden Plains 48, Triplains-Brewster 39
Hartford 67, Rural Vista 66
Haven 42, Hillsboro 38
Hays 63, Abilene 54
Hays-TMP-Marian 65, Great Bend 42
Hesston 58, Hoisington 50
Hiawatha 48, Perry-Lecompton 41
Highland Park 58, Shawnee Heights 46
Hill City 56, Rawlins County 19
Holcomb 59, Scott City 42
Hutchinson Central Christian 56, Burrton 40
Ingalls 75, Hodgeman County 71
Inman 50, Hutchinson Trinity 44
Jackson Heights 65, Valley Falls 47
Jefferson North 54, Pleasant Ridge 39
Jefferson West 56, Holton 40
Kapaun Mount Carmel 44, Wichita Bishop Carroll 39
KC Sumner 64, KC Harmon 51
Labette County 55, Fort Scott 53
Lansing 70, Tonganoxie 53
Lawrence Free State 53, SM South 47
Lebo 70, Crest 37
Liberal 62, Cimarron 38
Lyons 63, Kingman 43
Macksville 51, Otis-Bison 36
Manhattan 64, Topeka 59
Marion 34, Sedgwick 33
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 53, McLouth 27
McPherson 72, El Dorado 33
Meade 72, Southwestern Hts. 65
Medicine Lodge 48, Cheney 39
Metro Academy 68, Veritas Christian 36
Mission Valley 52, Burlingame 48
Moundridge 51, Ell-Saline 28
Natoma 57, Tescott 54
Nemaha Central 49, Royal Valley 36
Neodesha 60, Yates Center 33
Nickerson 57, Larned 56
Norton 68, Hoxie 41
Oakley 70, Quinter 52
Olathe North 68, Leavenworth 56
Osborne 56, Sylvan-Lucas 29
Paola 72, Ottawa 62
Pratt 62, Halstead 52
Pratt Skyline 60, Norwich 54
Riley County 47, Council Grove 42
Riverton 54, Frontenac 36
Rock Creek 61, Chapman 37
Rock Hills 37, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 22
Rose Hill 54, Winfield 40
Sabetha 38, Riverside 30
Salina Central 48, Salina South 34
Salina Sacred Heart 64, Beloit 50
Sedan 85, Flinthills 45
SM North 71, Lawrence 62
Smith Center 77, Northern Valley 49
Solomon 54, Herington 19
South Barber 65, Fairfield 58
South Gray 68, Sublette 28
Southeast Saline 66, Ellsworth 41
Spearville 74, Minneola 56
St. John 62, Kiowa County 35
Sterling 65, Smoky Valley 61
Stockton 56, LaCrosse 50
Topeka Seaman 64, Junction City 55
Uniontown 66, Altoona-Midway 13
Victoria 69, Kinsley 35
Wamego 73, Clay Center 47
Washburn Rural 65, Topeka West 50
Wellington 69, Mulvane 46
Wellsville 42, Silver Lake 34
Wheatland-Grinnell 70, Oberlin-Decatur 46
Wichita Collegiate 78, Clearwater 35
Wichita East 71, Wichita Northwest 62
Wichita Heights 60, Wichita South 49
Wichita Home School 64, Caldwell 57
Wichita Southeast 71, Wichita North 56
Wichita Sunrise 81, St. John’s Military 35
Wichita Trinity 68, Conway Springs 42
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Abilene 58, Hays 39
Andover Central 79, Maize South 58
Axtell 62, Doniphan West 22
Baxter Springs 50, Southeast 38
Beloit 124, Salina Sacred Heart 70
Bennington 57, Canton-Galva 39
Berean Academy 38, Remington 36
Bishop Miege 67, Blue Valley Southwest 61
Bluestem 62, Chaparral 53
Buhler 51, Augusta 43
Burlington 64, Humboldt 38
BV North 57, BV Northwest 49
Caney Valley 69, Dewey, Okla. 33
Central Burden 54, West Elk 15
Central Plains 52, Ness City 22
Chapman 48, Rock Creek 31
Cheney 62, Medicine Lodge 34
Circle 48, Andale 45
Clay Center 52, Wamego 35
Coffeyville 53, Parsons 44
Columbus 59, Galena 36
Concordia 54, Phillipsburg 36
Council Grove 53, Riley County 50
Derby 44, Hutchinson 37
DeSoto 30, Eudora 20
Dodge City 47, Garden City 25
Ellis 75, Trego 43
Eureka 54, Erie 40
Frankfort 65, BV Randolph 37
Frontenac 64, Riverton 27
Garden Plains 44, Douglass 37
Girard 45, Pittsburg Colgan 28
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 50, Rock Hills 28
Goddard-Eisenhower 54, Andover 46
Golden Plains 56, Triplains-Brewster 37
Goodland 50, Colby 20
Hanover 59, Clifton-Clyde 27
Haven 50, Hillsboro 32
Hays-TMP-Marian 84, Great Bend 72
Hesston 44, Hoisington 33
Hill City 56, Rawlins County 19
Holcomb 42, Scott City 24
Hugoton 55, Ulysses 29
Hutchinson Central Christian 56, Burrton 40
Hutchinson Trinity 32, Inman 29
Iola 39, Osawatomie 25
Jefferson West 56, Holton 52
KC Piper 70, KC Turner 28
Kingman 52, Lyons 36
Kiowa County 38, St. John 23
Labette County 57, Fort Scott 32
LaCrosse 63, Stockton 54
Lakeside 52, Wilson 50
Lansing 59, Tonganoxie 39
Larned 43, Nickerson 28
Lawrence 55, SM North 45
Lawrence Free State 58, SM South 45
Leavenworth 67, Olathe North 25
Lebo 51, Crest 29
Liberal 42, Cimarron 29
Little River 40, Peabody-Burns 29
Macksville 40, Otis-Bison 39
Marion 35, Sedgwick 34
Marmaton Valley 34, Chetopa 27
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 50, McLouth 16
McPherson 60, El Dorado 23
Meade 72, Southwestern Hts. 40
Metro Academy 54, Veritas Christian 25
Mill Valley 40, Bonner Springs 31
Moundridge 51, Ell-Saline 33
Natoma 49, Tescott 17
Nemaha Central 51, Royal Valley 42
Newton 49, Wichita Campus 28
Norton 58, Hoxie 45
Norwich 60, Pratt Skyline 19
Paola 48, Ottawa 39
Pike Valley 45, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 5
Pittsburg 39, Chanute 30
Pleasant Ridge 54, Jefferson North 41
Pleasanton 53, Jayhawk Linn 27
Pratt 53, Halstead 27
Quinter 63, Oakley 51
Republic County 41, Minneapolis 29
Rolla 62, Ashland 34
Rose Hill 50, Winfield 38
Rural Vista 44, Hartford 31
Sabetha 60, Riverside 19
Salina Central 74, Salina South 50
Santa Fe Trail 45, Central Heights 31
Satanta 62, Fowler 42
Sedan 45, Flinthills 37
Shawnee Heights 64, Highland Park 36
Silver Lake 59, Wellsville 25
SM Northwest 41, Olathe East 32
Smith Center 52, Northern Valley 31
Solomon 59, Herington 47
South Barber 63, Fairfield 32
Southeast Saline 65, Ellsworth 28
Spearville 51, Minneola 33
Sterling 56, Smoky Valley 29
Sylvan-Lucas 55, Osborne 27
Thunder Ridge 55, Lincoln 28
Topeka 51, Manhattan 46
Topeka Hayden 54, Emporia 42
Topeka Seaman 41, Junction City 38
Uniontown 56, Altoona-Midway 25
Valley Center 43, Arkansas City 37
Valley Falls 48, Jackson Heights 27
Victoria 63, Kinsley 47
Washburn Rural 60, Topeka West 14
Washington County 66, Linn 45
Wellington 65, Mulvane 46
Wheatland-Grinnell 44, Oberlin-Decatur 16
Wichita Bishop Carroll 35, Kapaun Mount Carmel 32
Wichita Collegiate 41, Clearwater 38
Wichita Home School 49, Caldwell 37
Wichita Independent 46, Belle Plaine 29
Wichita Northwest 45, Wichita East 43
Wichita South 48, Wichita Heights 25
Wichita Southeast 65, Wichita North 52
Wichita Sunrise 81, St. John’s Military 35

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Justin Edwards scored 17 points as Kansas State beat TCU 63-49 Tuesday night to snap a 13-game losing streak in Big 12 road games.

Kansas State (15-11, 4-9) last won a conference road game on Jan. 10, 2015 at Oklahoma.

The Wildcats improved their road record this season to 2-7. Their other win came at Georgia on Dec. 4.

Barry Brown added 16 points and Dean Wade 14 for the Wildcats.

Malique Trent led the Horned Frogs (11-15, 2-11) with 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

The 14-point win was Kansas State’s largest since it beat Oklahoma State 89-73 on Jan. 23.

GAME 26

KANSAS STATE (14-11, 3-9 Big 12)

AT TCU (11-14, 2-10 Big 12)

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 >> 7:01 p.m. CT >> Schollmaier Arena (6,700) >> Fort Worth, Texas

 

 

COACHES

Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee ’78)

Overall: 389-204/18^th season

At K-State: 76-49/4^th season

1. TCU: 5-2

 

TCU: Trent Johnson (Boise State ‘86)

Overall: 275-257/17th season

At TCU: 49-72/4th season

1. Kansas State: 2-5

 

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP

Kansas State (14-11, 3-9 Big 12)

G: #1 Carlbe Ervin II (3.0 ppg., 1.9 rpg.)

G: #5 Barry Brown (8.8 ppg., 2.8 rpg.)

G: #25 Wesley Iwundu (12.4 ppg., 4.6 rpg.)

F: #32 Dean Wade (9.9 ppg., 5.4 rpg.)

F: #4 D.J. Johnson (8.1 ppg., 5.0 rpg.)

 

TCU (11-14, 2-10 Big 12)

G: #1 Chauncey Collins (10.9 ppg., 3.2 rpg.)

G: #3 Malique Trent (10.9 ppg., 2.7 rpg.)

G: #11 Brandon Parrish (8.4 ppg., 3.4 rpg.)

F: #23 Devonta Abron (4.8 ppg., 3.7 rpg.)

F: #33 Chris Washburn (8.0 ppg., 4.6 rpg.)

 

INSIDE THE SERIES

Overall: K-State leads 8-4 (series began in 1947)

In Big 12 era: K-State leads 5-2 (2-1 on the road)

In Fort Worth: K-State leads 3-1 (last meeting – 2/18/2015)

Current Streak: TCU, 2

Last Meeting: TCU, 67-65, in Kansas City, on 3/11/2015

Weber vs. TCU: Weber leads 5-2 (2-1 on the road)

Weber vs. Johnson: Weber leads 5-2 (2-1 on the road)

 

QUICK HITTERS

• Kansas State (14-11, 3-9 Big 12) concludes its 2-game road swing on Tuesday night, as the Wildcats meet TCU (11-14, 2-10 Big 12) for the first time at the renovated Schollmaier Arena at 7 p.m. CT on ESPNews.
• The back-to-back road games are the last set of the season, as K-State returns home for consecutive games in a 3-day span, beginning with No. 2/2 Kansas (21-4, 9-3 Big 12) at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday and concluding with No. 24/25 Texas(16-9, 7-5 Big 12 at 6 p.m. CT on Monday.
• In an unusual scheduling twist, K-State will play TCU for the first time on Tuesday. The Wildcats have already completed their home-and-home series with Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and West Virginia.
• This will be the 13th meeting between the schools with K-State leading 8-4, including 3-1 in Fort Worth. The Wildcats are 5-2 in the Big 12 era, but the Frogs have won the last two meetings, including at home in 2015.
• K-State owns the 14th-best strength of schedule and has played 10 Top 25 opponents, including 8 in Big 12 play. Nine of the 11 losses have come to teams that are currently ranked in the AP Top 25, including 5 in Top 10. All 11 losses have come to teams with a combined record of 164-60 (.732).
• K-State will play back-to-back non-ranked opponents for the first time since playing North Dakota and Saint Louis, Dec. 22 and 29, 2015.
• K-State enters Tuesday’s game with a 13-game Big 12 road losing skid, which including 6 in a row this season. The Wildcats’ last Big 12 road win came on Jan. 10, 2015 in a 66-63 victory in overtime at No. 16 Oklahoma.
• Overall, the Wildcats have lost 7 straight on the road since opening the season with a last-second 68-66 win at Georgia on Dec. 4, 2015.
• K-State fell to 0-3 in overtime this season, dropping a 58-55 decision at Oklahoma State on Saturday. The Wildcats, which lost to an unranked team for just the 2nd time this year, tied or posted season-lows for points, field goals (18), field goals attempted (49) and points in the paint (22).
• K-State has now held 47 opponents to 60 points or less under head coach Bruce Weber, including 21 Big 12 foes. The loss was just the 7th (40-7) when doing so, including 3rd (18-3) in Big 12 play.
• Senior Justin Edwards led the Wildcats in points (14), rebounds (13) and steals (3) against the Cowboys, posting his 2nd career double-double. He has now led in scoring and rebounding on 8 occasions this season.
• K-State has 7 players with at least 7 double-digit scoring games, as the team is 9-2 this season when 4 or more players register double figures.
• Freshmen have led the Wildcats in scoring 12 times (including 6 of 12 Big 12 games) with a combined 29 double-figure scoring games. They have also paced the team in rebounding and assists 8 times each.

 

–www.kstatesports.com–

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TOM GILBERT
Associate Director for Athletics Communications | K-State Athletics

The Tuesday night high school basketball schedule finds:

–Junction City at Seaman

–Manhattan at Topeka High

–Hayden at Emporia

–Highland Park hosting Shawnee Heights

–Topeka West at Washburn Rural

–Abilene goes to Hays

–Chapman hosts Rock Creek

–Marysville visits Centralia

–Concordia hosts Phillipsburg

–Blue Jay Randolph is at Frankfort

–Rural Vista is hosting Hartford

–Riley County hosts Council Grove

–and Herington travels to Solomon

Villanova is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for a second week and Kansas, coming off wins over two top 10 teams, jumps four places to second.

Duke, which had one of the longest consecutive poll streaks ever, returns at No. 20 after two weeks out of the Top 25.

Villanova (22-3) received 44 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday with Kansas (21-4) getting the other 21.

Oklahoma, which lost to Kansas in their rematch, and Iowa stayed third and fourth. North Carolina jumped four places to fifth and was followed by Maryland, which had been No. 2, and Virginia. Michigan State and Xavier are tied for eighth and West Virginia, which also lost to Kansas, is 10th.

Joining Duke as newcomers are No. 19 Notre Dame and No. 22 Indiana. They replace Texas A&M, Southern Cal and Wichita State.

NORMAN, Okla. – The Rematch was touted as “must-see -TV” and the reason “why you play the game” from ESPN’s College GameDay crew hours before Kansas and Oklahoma met for the first time since an epic triple-overtime KU victory on Jan. 4 in Allen Fieldhouse.

Part two of the hotly-contested series between the teams vying for a Big 12 regular-season title lived up to its billing again as the sixth-ranked Jayhawks prevailed against the third-ranked Sooners on Saturday afternoon at Lloyd Noble Center, 76-72.

With the win, Kansas (21-4, 9-3 Big 12) snaps Oklahoma’s 19-game home winning streak and moves into a tie with West Virginia for the lead in the Big 12 standings. The Sooners fall to 20-4 and 8-4 in Big 12 play. Kansas is now 3-0 against top-10 opponents this season, including two-straight top-10 wins after defeating the 10th-ranked Mountaineers on Tuesday in Lawrence.

Sophomore guard Devonte’ Graham carried the Jayhawks with a career-high 27 points, including 6-of-9 shooting from 3-point range, in 39 minutes of action while primarily guarding Oklahoma standout Buddy Hield.

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Tavarius Shine came off the bench to score 11 points, five in overtime, to lead Oklahoma State to an 58-55 victory over Kansas State on Saturday.

Leyton Hammonds led the Cowboys (12-13, 3-9 Big 12) with 13 points, while adding six rebounds, as his team snapped a three-game losing streak. Oklahoma State had lost nine of its previous 11, with five of those defeats decided by five points or fewer.

Justin Edwards scored 14 points and posted 13 rebounds to lead Kansas State (14-11, 3-9).

Oklahoma State nearly won it at the end of regulation, as it appeared that Jeff Newberry hit a 3-pointer from half court just as the buzzer sounded. The officials called it good, but a video review showed that Newberry released the ball a split second after the clock expired, overturning the verdict.

Kansas State missed four shots in the final 15 seconds of overtime.