Kansas State competed in the Missouri Valley Conference from 1912 to 1928; the Big Six Conference from 1928 to 1947; the Big Seven Conference from 1947 to 1958; the Big Eight Conference from 1958 to 1996, and at present occurs as member of the Heavy XII Conference. A school has captured 20 sum conference championships on top a years.

Administration
Athletic Directors of note at Kansas State University include:

Basketball
Kansas State's men's five began competition within 1902. A program has an extended history of profits. A number 1 2 conference titles captured per school were won within the sport, in 1917 and 1919. Kansas State has never again in to capture Seventeen conference crowns in the sport.

Through a years the team earned the right to participate inside Twenty-two NCAA basketball tournaments. Kansas State's better finish at a tournament come around 1951, when it played a University of Kentucky for the national championship. A school has reached a Final Four four days, a Elect Eight 11 days, & a Sweetly Sixteen 16 times. A better year in the school's history can use at times been 1959, when a team finished a year graded First in the Associated Press poll. K-State has finished graded in the Top Ten of the poll in hexad more occassions.

A team presently plays inside Bramlage Coliseum. the team has posted a winning record home annually since 1946.

a total of notability & successful coaches keep close at hand led the Wildcats through the years. A virtually all successful come: Z.G. Clevenger - (1916-1920); 54-17 (.761)

Fred "Tex" Winter - (1953-1968); 262-117 (.691)

Jack Gardner - (1939-1942; 1946-1953); 147-81 (.645); Member of Naismith Hall of Fame

Jack Hartman - (1970-1986); 295-169 (.636)

Lon Kruger - (1986-1990); 81-47 (.633)

Cotton Fitzsimmons - (1968-1970); 33-21 (.611)

Football
A eleven began play around 1893. A program got a few shining moments in the 1920s and 1930s, including a Big Six Conference championship in 1934. However, Kansas State was historically one of a worst software download around NCAA history until 1989, when a athletic department hired Bill Snyder as head coach. Snyder instilled faith & self-esteem in the left players, recruited heavy & expanded exercise facilities & devices. Fallowing 5 seasons at a helm, inside 1993 Snyder's Wildcats posted the number 1 triumph within the bowl game in Kansas State's history. Profits & high rankings continued on top a next decade, including sestet top-ten ends in the Associated Press poll and the hone (11-0) regular year around 1998. the do culminated within a Big Twelve Conference championship in 2003.

a recently winning attitude was represented by a conventionalised wildcat, known as the "Powercat" (shown at top), that was added to the football team's uniforms within 1989. A emblem became then popular that per late 1990s it had virtually replaced "Willie the Wildcat," a character designed by art department students in the late 1950s.

A team presently plays inside KSU Stadium.

Bowl games

Prior to Bill Snyder became head coach K-State, the Wildcats experienced merely been to a single bowl game. Under Snyder, K-State experienced the streak of Xi straight bowl game appearances that ended in the 2004 year.

1982 L - Independence Bowl vs. University of Wisconsin

1993 W - Copper Bowl vs. University of Wyoming

1994 L - Aloha Bowl vs. Boston College (MA)

1995 W - Holiday Bowl vs. Colorado State University

1997 L - Cotton Bowl vs. Brigham Young University (UT)

1997 W - Fiesta Bowl vs. Syracuse University (NY)

1998 L - Alamo Bowl vs. Purdue University (IN)

1999 W - Holiday Bowl vs. University of Washington

2001 W - Cotton Bowl vs. University of Tennessee

2001 L - Insight.com Bowl vs. Syracuse University (NY)

2002 W - Holiday Bowl vs. Arizona State University

2004 L - Fiesta Bowl vs. Ohio State University

Notable alumni and former athletes

Baseball
Eldon Auker - All-American (1932), (All-Big Six Conference in football, basketball, and baseball), played for Detroit Tigers Craig Wilson - All-Our contries (1992), member of the 1992 Olympic baseball team in Barcelona, played for Chicago White Sox

Basketball
Ernie Barrett - Former NBA basketball player (Boston Celtics), first-spherical pick around 1951 NBA Draft, former Athletic Director at Kansas State Rolando Blackman - All-U.s. (1981), former NBA basketball streaming video player (Dallas Mavericks), first-spherical pick around 1981 NBA Draft, four-instance NBA All-Star Bob Boozer - Two-instance A lot-U.s. (1958, 1959), first overall draft pick in 1959 NBA Draft, NBA All-Star Mike Evans - Former NBA basketball streaming video player (Denver Nuggets), first-spherical pick around 1978 NBA Draft, NBA executive and coach Bill Guthridge - Former basketball coach at a University of North Carolina, National Coach of the Year (1998) Gene Keady - Former basketball coach at Purdue, four-instance National Coach of the Month (1984, 1994, 1996, 2000) Lon Kruger - Basketball coach at UNLV, former coach of Atlanta Hawks, two-instance Big Eight Conference Player of the Year (1973, 1974) Ed Nealy Nicole Ohlde - Three-instance Completely-Western (2002, 2003, 2004), first-spherical pick around 2004 WNBA Draft Mitch Richmond - All-U.s. (1988), former NBA basketeer (Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings), first-spherical pick around 1988 NBA Draft, six-period NBA All-Star Howie Shannon - All-U.s. (1948), first overall draft pick in 1949 NBA Draft, NBA Rookie of the Year

Football
Michael Bishop - Won Davey O'Brien Award and second in voting for Heisman Trophy in 1998, All-American (1998) Larry Brown - Former NFL running back (Washington Redskins), four-period NFL Pro Bowler Chris Canty - Two-instance Tons-U.s. (1995, 1996), first-spherical pick within 1997 NFL Draft Lynn Dickey - Former NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers), named everthing-period A lot-Big Eight quarterback in 1996 Ralph Graham Martín Gramática - Won Lou Groza Award in 1997, All-Our contries (1997), previous NFL placekicker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), NFL Pro Bowler Steve Grogan - Former NFL quarterback (New England Patriots) Terence Newman - Won Jim Thorpe Award in 2002, unanimous All-U.s. (2002), number one-spherical pick around 2003 NFL Draft Harold Robinson Clarence Scott - All-Our contries (1970), NFL Pro Bowler Gary Spani - All-Western (1977), Member of College Football Hall of Fame and Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame Darren Sproles - All-U.s. (2003) Mark Simoneau - All-Western (1999)

Golf
Jim Colbert

Track & Field
Thane Baker - winner of four Olympic decoration, including gold, at 1952 Olympics and 1956 Olympics DeLoss Dodds - Big Eight Champion, Kansas State track coach (1963-1977), Member of Drake Relays Hall of Fame Kenny Harrison - won gold medal inside hop-step-and-jump at 1996 Summer Olympics Ward Haylett Austra Skujytė - won silver medal (for Lithuania) at 2004 Summer Olympics