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Sports => The Good, The Bad, and the "Meh" => Topic started by: Saulbadguy on March 24, 2006, 09:55:38 PM
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Strike Two
Kansas State climbs with Hill
Brad Hill went 418-91, made seven Division II College World Series appearances and won a national championship in nine years as coach at Central Missouri State. His first three seasons at Kansas State have each seen progress, as evidenced by his team's current 15-game win streak and 16-1 start. Both are school records.
Wichita State is the only ranked team to fall during K-State's streak, and no one's predicting the Wildcats to capture the Big 12 title, but wins are wins and progress is progress for a program that was 15-37 in 2003. That was the year before Hill arrived; his first club went 26-30, and his second one went 30-25 to become the 10th Wildcats team in nearly 100 years to win 30 games.
Kansas State visits Missouri this weekend for its first conference series, and plays host to Nebraska and Texas the following two weekends. Those results will help bring into focus which goal is more realistic for K-State in 2006: getting out of the conference cellar for the first time since 2002 or making its first NCAA Tournament.