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The Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team represents Kansas State University in college basketball competition. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I, and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. The current head coach is Bruce Weber. The program began competition in 1902, and has a long history of success. The first two major-conference titles captured by the school were won in the sport, in 1917 and 1919 (in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Kansas State has gone on to capture 18 regular season conference crowns in the sport, and the program has winning records against all other current and former Big 12 teams except Kansas and Oklahoma. ''Street & Smith'' ranked K-State 22nd in its 2005 list of the greatest college basketball programs of all time,〔(100 Greatest College Basketball Programs of All Time )〕 while Jeff Sagarin listed the program 27th in his all-time rankings in the ''ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia''. Following the 2013–2014 season, the Wildcats had a record of 1,599–1,108 (). ==History== Through the years Kansas State University has appeared in 28 NCAA basketball tournaments, most recently in 2014. The team's all-time record in the NCAA tournament is 33–32 (). Kansas State's best finish at the tournament came in 1951, when it lost to Kentucky in the national championship game. The school has reached the Final Four 4 times, the Elite Eight 12 times, and the Sweet Sixteen 16 times. Included among K-State's tournament wins are some all-time classics, including an 83–80 win over Oscar Robertson's Cincinnati team in 1958, which ''Sports Illustrated'' called "the most exciting game of the 1958 season," and a 50–48 win over second-ranked Oregon State in 1981, which ''USA Today'' listed as one of the greatest games in NCAA tournament history. The team also had some notably successful seasons before the creation of the NIT (1938) and the NCAA tournament (1939), including conference titles in 1917 and 1919 under coach Zora G. Clevenger. The Helms Athletic Foundation named Frank Reynolds the program's first All-American player in 1917, and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively ranked Kansas State #12 in 1910, #18 in 1916, #8 in 1917 and #7 in 1919.〔 The best season in the school's history may have been 1959, when the team finished the season ranked #1 in the final Associated Press Poll and Coaches Poll. K-State has finished ranked in the Top 10 of one of the two polls on ten occasions (most recently in 2010), and in the final top 25 polls nineteen total times. The team has also posted a winning record at home every year since 1946. After a lengthy period with little success during the 1990s and 2000s, the team has returned to prominence. Following a twelve-year absence, the team returned to the NCAA tournament after the 2007–08 season, under first-year head coach Frank Martin. Following that season, Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley was named an All-American and Big 12 Conference Player of the Year. In the 2009–10 season, the team spent much of the year ranked in the Top 10 of the AP Poll and finished second in the Big 12 with an 11–5 record. The team received a #2 seed in the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, and beat North Texas and BYU to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, where the Wildcats faced Xavier. The game was a double-overtime thriller won by Kansas State 101–96, which CBSSports.com called "one of the best games in the history of the Sweet 16." Kansas State lost in the next round to Butler, the eventual national runner-up. On March 31, 2012, Bruce Weber was announced as head coach after Frank Martin left for South Carolina. During the 2012–2013 season, Weber's first in Manhattan, Kansas State won its first regular season conference title since 1977 and advanced to the NCAA tournament. K-State returned to the NCAA tournament again in Weber's second season, and has now appeared in the NCAA tournament for five consecutive years, through the 2013–2014 season – the ninth-longest active streak in the nation. Kansas State has a total of 36 All-Americans, 18 regular-season conference championships and nine conference tournament championships. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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