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ArrowheadHawk · 08-18-2009, 03:10 PM

College GameDay Coming to K-State
Released 08/18/2009 by Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Excitement for basketball season reached a new high on Tuesday, as ESPN announced that College GameDay Driven by State Farm is coming to K-State on Jan. 30 for its annual clash with archrival Kansas.

"I couldn't be happier that ESPN has chosen K-State as a site for its College GameDay show," said athletics director John Currie. "This will be a great opportunity for the rest of the country to see how passionate and enthusiastic our fan base is for Wildcat athletics. Excitement continues to build for our men's basketball program as Coach Martin and his staff has elevated our program to a high level with back-to-back postseason appearances and 20-win seasons."

K-State will be one of eight universities to host College GameDay in 2010, which will begin its sixth season on Jan. 16 for the women's game between Notre Dame and defending national champion Connecticut in Storrs, Conn. Other host sites for the show include Clemson (Jan. 23), Illinois (Feb. 6), Kentucky (Feb. 13), Washington (Feb. 20), Syracuse (Feb. 27) and Duke (Mar. 6).

It will mark the first time College GameDay has made an appearance at Bramlage Coliseum, while it will be the second time the show has covered the annual Sunflower Showdown. The show broadcast from the game at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence on March 1, 2008.

K-State, which has hosted the football version of the show on two occasions in 1998 (vs. Nebraska) and 2000 (vs. Oklahoma), will become just the 15th school (LSU, Boston College, Ohio State, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA and Notre Dame) to have hosted College GameDay for both basketball and football events.

A spin-off of its successful college football version, College GameDay made its debut on Jan. 22, 2005. Host Rece Davis is joined on the program by former Notre Dame head coach Digger Phelps, former Duke player and assistant coach Jay Bilas, former North Carolina standout Hubert Davis, college basketball's all-time winningest coach Bobby Knight and college basketball writer Andy Katz. The show will broadcast live twice, both for one hour from 10 to 11 a.m. CT and 5 to 6 p.m. CT.

The contest between the Wildcats and Jayhawks will be the Saturday Primetime game set for 6 p.m. CT, which is typically broadcast by the trio of Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale and Erin Andrews.

The primetime affair will be one of at least nine national television games for the Wildcats in 2009-10, all on the ESPN family of networks. In addition to the game with the Jayhawks, ESPN will broadcast the squad's Big Monday clash with Texas at Bramlage Coliseum on Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. CT. The team will also make at least three appearances on ESPN2 and four more on ESPNU.

"I encourage fans to get their season tickets today, as we expect to be at full capacity for the entire season," said Currie. "We want to show the whole country what kind of fan support we have at K-State by breaking the all-time attendance mark for a College GameDay crowd!"

K-State returns four starters and eight lettermen from a squad that produced a 22-12 overall record and finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big 12 in 2008-09. The Wildcats advanced to the second round of the NIT, where they lost to top-seeded San Diego State. In addition, the team will welcome a five-man recruiting class that has been judged to be amongst the top 20 in the nation by several outlets.

Season tickets for Kansas State's entire 17-game home schedule are currently on sale. There are a variety of season ticket options as well as payment plans. The most convenient way to order tickets is online at www.k-statesports.com. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the K-State Athletic Ticket Office in Bramlage Coliseum or by calling toll-free, (800) 221.CATS.

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What are they thinking with this?

Reerun_KC · 08-18-2009, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

What are they thinking with this?

It cost too much to ship the TV crew/equipment to the game in Africa.

**Saulbadguy** · 08-18-2009, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

It cost too much to ship the TV crew/equipment to the game in Africa.

This time, its Puerto RIIIIIIIIIIIIIICO, ESE

Reerun_KC · 08-18-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

This time, its Puerto RIIIIIIIIIIIIIICO, ESE

**Skip Towne** · 08-18-2009, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

3 years.

BACK TO BACK TO BACK 4th place finishes in the Big XII. Only other team to accomplish that is Kansas.

Very impressive except two of them are NIT. But I guess they did make it clear to the 2nd round. Wow!

58kcfan89 · 08-18-2009, 07:46 PM

Concern noted...

Coogs · 08-18-2009, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

The contest between the Wildcats and Jayhawks will be the Saturday Primetime game set for 6 p.m. CT, which is typically broadcast by the trio of Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale and Erin Andrews.

Erin Andrews in Manhattan. Nice!

ArrowheadHawk · 08-18-2009, 08:38 PM

It should be fun. Now that I live in Topeka I think I will try and go to this game.

GoHuge · 08-18-2009, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Very impressive except two of them are NIT. But I guess they did make it clear to the 2nd round. Wow!

Well considering Bill Self's first two years he was one-and-done with a perennial top 5-10 basketball power house I think Frank Martin has done pretty damn good for his first two years as a D1 head coach. Especially at a place that hadn't seen the tournament in over ten years. Self had been a head coach for ten years before he took the Kansas job. The rookie coach got his team with two pros on it to beat a National Championship team with at least 6 pros by 9 pts. Maybe he was just lucky? Burrito Bill Self is one of my favorite sports figures and I'd have a real hard time saying anything bad about the guy. Just saying in Frank's first season he went to the second round after beating the #6 seed in USC. The next year he had zero pros and made the NIT and finished 4th in the Big 12. Granted USC isn't a perennial buzz-saw juggernaut elite-team killer like Bradley or Bucknell, but...............

**007** · 08-19-2009, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

Has Dicky V ever done a KState game?

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Erin Andrews....

Dicky V did Erin Andrews?

POND_OF_RED · 08-19-2009, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Dicky V did Erin Andrews?

The old man showed her his "diaper dandy"

**Saulbadguy** · 08-19-2009, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

It should be fun. Now that I live in Topeka I think I will try and go to this game.

Might be tough to find tickets now that this has been announced. The K-State ticket office might make you buy tickets to other games if you buy tickets to the KU game.

**Skip Towne** · 08-19-2009, 08:54 AM

What is Bramlage's seating capacity?

**Saulbadguy** · 08-19-2009, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Skip Towne

What is Bramlage's seating capacity?

12k and change.

08-18-2009, 03:10 PM
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