Game 7
Kansas State at Texas
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015

Kickoff: 11 a.m.

Location: Austin, Texas

Stadium: Texas Memorial Stadium (100,119)

Series: K-State leads, 9-6

K-STATE HEADS TO TEXAS FOR MORNING BIG 12 MATCHUP
K-State heads back out on the road looking to snap a three-game skid as the Wildcats visit Austin and the Texas Longhorns on Saturday in an 11 a.m., nationally-televised game on FOX Sports 1. The game will be broadcast by Joe Davis (play-by-play), Brady Quinn (analyst) and Kris Budden (sideline), while the contest can also be heard across the K-State Sports Network with Wyatt Thompson (play-by-play), Stan Weber (analyst) and Matt Walters (sideline) calling the action.
A LOOK AT K-STATE

• Guided by 2015 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Bill Snyder, K-State is 3-3 following three losses to nationally-ranked teams, including two narrow defeats.
• K-State shut out South Dakota in the season opener before surrendering only a field goal – a 51-yarder – to UTSA.
• The Wildcats did not allow a TD until the second quarter vs. LA Tech, marking the longest stretch to start a season without allowing a TD in the post-World War II era (1945).
• The Wildcats took the No. 2 team in the country, TCU, down to the wire behind four rushing TDs by Joe Hubener and two more from running back Charles Jones.
• After throwing for two scores and running for another against OSU, Kody Cook became the first Wildcat since 2007 to run for a score, throw for a touchdown and catch a touchdown pass in the same season.
• Hubener set a career high with three touchdown passes vs. LA Tech, including overtime strikes to Dominique Heath and the eventual game-winner to Cook.
• Justin Silmon has taken over the running back role as the redshirt freshman walk-on has totaled 285 yards on 60 carries this season (4.8 yards/carry). Jones had one of his best career performances vs. TCU, averaging 5.8 ypc.
• Defensively, the Cats are led by Kaleb Prewett and Donnie Starks with 32 tackles apiece, while defensive tackle Will Geary is coming off an eight-tackle, two-sack performance against Oklahoma.

A LOOK AT TEXAS

• The Longhorns are coming off a bye week following their dramatic 24-17 win over Oklahoma on October 10.
• Redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard has provided an offensive spark, totaling 433 yards rushing and three scores to go along with 714 yards and three more scores through the air.
• The Texas defense is led by Peter Jinkens, who is sixth in the league in tackles with 48, and Malik Jefferson, who has totaled 37 stops, including 5.5 for losses.
• All-purpose player Daje Johnson leads the Big 12 in punt returns, while he also leads the team in receiving with 14 catches for 201 yards.

A LOOK AT THE SERIES

• K-State leads the overall series, 9-6, and has won six of the last seven meetings.
• The Cats are 3-5 all-time in games played in Austin which includes a 3-2 mark since 1998.
• Under Bill Snyder, K-State is 6-3 against the Longhorns, including a 2-2 mark in Austin.
• Texas won the last meeting in Austin, 31-21, to snap a five-game Wildcat win streak in the series.
• The last Wildcat win over Texas in Austin was a 17-13 victory back in 2011.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas State men’s basketball team will hold its second public scrimmage at 3:30 p.m., on Saturday, October 24 at Bramlage Coliseum.

The team will scrimmage for 45 minutes, which will be followed by a 30-minute autograph session. Fans can also pick up team posters and schedule cards at the event.

Junior Wesley Iwundu led all Wildcats in the first scrimmage this past Saturday, posting 12 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds, as the squad played three six-minute periods broken down between Purple and White teams. Freshman guard Kamau Stokes scored 8 points to go with 3 assists and 2 steals, while senior Stephen Hurt added 7 points and a team-leading 7 rebounds. Several players who did not participate in the first scrimmage are expected to play this Saturday.

The scrimmage will be the second opportunity to see some of the new faces in the men’s basketball program, which includes 10 newcomers, including seven scholarship players. This new group is led by NJCAA First Team All-American Carlbe Ervin II (Oklahoma City, Okla./Connors State College) and freshmen Barry Brown (St. Petersburg, Fla./Gibbs),Kamau Stokes (Baltimore, Md./Fork Union Military Academy) and PARADE All-American and Mr. Kansas Basketball Dean Wade (St. John, Kansas/St. John).

In all, the men’s basketball team returns six lettermen, including five with starting experience, highlighted by senior guard Justin Edwards (6.3 ppg., 3.3 rpg.) and Iwundu (5.8 ppg., 3.5 rpg.). The Wildcats will also regain the services of junior forward D.J. Johnson, who missed the entire 2014-15 season due to a foot injury.

Single-game tickets for the 19-game home schedule, excluding the Kansas game, went on sale to the public on Oct. 5, including the new Bramlage Bundle. Several season ticket packages as well as the Holiday and 6-game Mini-Plans are also currently on sale.

The team plays the first of their two exhibition games on Friday, Oct. 30 when the Wildcats host Emporia State at 7 p.m.

Fans can purchase tickets in a variety of ways, including toll free at (800) 221.CATS (2287), online at www.kstatesports.com/tickets and in-person at the Athletics Ticket Office located in Bramlage Coliseum.

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

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota’s defense and rookie wide receiver Stefon Diggs bailed out Teddy Bridgewater for an erratic performance, and the Vikings held on to beat the mistake-prone Kansas City Chiefs 16-10 on Sunday.

Alex Smith’s 42-yard touchdown pass to Albert Wilson midway through the fourth quarter pulled the Chiefs within three points, but the Vikings (3-2) played well enough early to survive their ragged finish.

Charcandrick West, one of their replacements for the injured Chiefs star Jamaal Charles, lost a fumble down the stretch. The Chiefs (1-5) had eight penalties enforced for 95 yards.

Diggs had 129 yards on seven catches on a day when Bridgewater threw two interceptions. Adrian Peterson, who was on the sideline late in the game with the Vikings trying to put it away, finished with 60 yards on 26 carries.

TORONTO (AP) – Royals manager Ned Yost has chosen Chris Young over Kris Medlen as his starter for Game 4 of the ALCS.

Young has only made two starts since July 28, but they were good ones. He allowed one run in 11 1-3 innings over those two outings, with his final start coming Oct. 2.

The 6-foot-10, third-round draft pick out of Princeton in 2000 appeared as a reliever in Game 1 of the ALDS, giving up a run in four innings. Overall, he was 11-6 in 34 appearances – 18 starts – this year.

Young faced the Blue Jays once this year, a 7-5 loss on July 11. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run shot and Young yielded five hits and three runs over six innings. But over his 11-year career, Young has held current members of the Blue Jays to a .229 average (22 for 96) with two homers.

According to media reports the Oklahoma Sooners faced a lengthy delay of more than eight hours in getting to Saturday’s football game against Kansas State because of a late arriving plan, and mechanical issues involving that plane that was supposed to transport them to Manhattan. Eventually there were issues with other backup planes that were to be used before the team finally boarded one and made it to Manhattan.

But in the end it didn’t seem to matter to OU, since they routed Kansas State 55-0 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said the Sooners left their facility at two p.m. Friday to go to Oklahoma City ( Will Rogers Airport ) and then take a 40-minute flight to Manhattan. “We didn’t walk into our hotel room until about 12:15 in the morning.” The Sooners had waited at the airport for several hours. “You get reports the plane is going to be here in an hour, one is going to leave Houston in a half-hour, and that changes every hour, is different, and it doesn’t happen.”

Stoops noted by about 8 p.m. the players had not eaten. So staffers and supporters with cars available were asked to go to fast food restaurants to bring back food, “Kind of potluck fast food, try and get 10 burgers, 10 tacos, if we had 10 people get ten whatever, we’d feed our players. And that’s exactly what we did.” Stoops said the Sooners then had their meal potluck. ”

Stoops joked, “Now the players want it every week, so I don’t know if that can happen.”

The Oklahoma Sooners ( 5-1, 2-1 Big 12 ) racked up 568 yards total offense, scored seven touchdowns, and kicked two field goals enroute to a 55-0 beat-down of Kansas State on Saturday at Bill Snyder Family stadium.

It was the first shutout loss for Kansas State since a 12-0 loss at Colorado in 1996, and the first in Manhattan since a 10-0 loss to Colorado in 1991.

OU coach Bob Stoops said his team responded after their loss to Texas one week ago. “They came out Monday just really fired up, energetic, and it carried through the week. We executed really well, give them the credit, the players, the execution was maybe as good as we’ve had.” During Stoops’ time as coach, the Sooners have not lost back to back games since consecutive losses to Notre Dame and Texas in his first season at OU in 1999.

K-State coach Bill Snyder commented on the toll two close losses in the last two weeks had on the Wildcats. “It is probably obvious that it has taken its toll. I think all of us are embarrassed. I cannot remember being involved in a game like this since 1989 in the first year that we were here. I do not even know if we had one that bad during that first go around. I am not really smart enough to put my finger on it.” Snyder added, “I feel badly for the guys in the locker room, but we were not as prepared to play. It is more than just the emotional preparation as well.”

Attendance for the contest was 52,867. Many fans left early.

K-State ( 3-3, 0-3 Big 12 ) plays at Texas next Saturday.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Patrick Mahomes threw for 359 yards and a score, De’Andre Washington rushed for 160 yards and a TD and Texas Tech held off a late-charging, winless Kansas team 30-20 on Saturday.

The Red Raiders (5-2, 2-2 Big 12) racked up 225 yards rushing and a touchdown on the ground. Texas Tech’s 30 points were the least amount the team has scored all season.

Five different Texas Tech offensive playmakers recorded over 50 yards receiving. Zach Austin led the Red Raiders with 80 yards receiving, Jakeem Grant had 76 yards, Devin Lauderdale had 50, Cameron Batson, 58, and Reginald Davis, 57 yards and a score.

Texas Tech continued its streak of perfection, as the Red Raiders are 9-0 inside Memorial Stadium, a record dating to 1966.

Kansas (0-6, 0-3) is riding a nine-game losing streak and is 0-6 for the first time since 1988.