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West Virginia's comeback bid comes up short, as Kansas State remained perfect in OT – Dominion Post

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February 27, 2024

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West Virginia's comeback bid comes up short, as Kansas State remained perfect in OT – Dominion Post

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia nearly pulled off the comeback of a lifetime Monday night.

Nearly.

Instead, it was Kansas State that ended up making history, winning its 12th consecutive overtime game in a 94-90 victory inside Bramlage Coliseum.

The 12 straight overtime wins dates back to last season, and K-State (17-11, 7-8 Big 12) was money again, making 3 of 4 shots and 8 of 10 free throws in the extra period.

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“It’s disappointing, very disappointing,” WVU head coach Josh Eilert said on his radio postgame show. “To come in here and be that close, you’re one bounce away or one timely call away.”

Over the first 27 minutes of the game, WVU (9-19, 4-11) getting this game into overtime wasn’t an option.

Kansas State, which entered the game as the worst 3-point shooting team in the Big 12, of course came right out of the shoot and hit 11 of 19 from behind the arc.

“We can’t dig ourselves a hole like that,” Eilert said. “Their guys were backing us down and getting a two-footer and we didn’t have hands up on the shooters or getting to the shooters.

“We couldn’t get a rebound. Nothing was going right. We had to throw our game plan out pretty quick in the first half.”

By the time there was just 13 minutes left in regulation, K-State had its biggest lead of 66-41.

That sounded just about right, as WVU entered the game without a victory away from Morgantown this season, with some of its more lopsided losses coming on the road.

And then RaeQuan Battle and Kerr Kriisa teamed up and said, ‘Let’s try and change all of that.”

Kriisa started making 3-pointers of his own — he finished with five of them in all to finish with a season-high 25 points — and Battle got to a point where it didn’t matter if he was being hounded by a K-State defender.

He hit off-balanced threes and then took off a couple of steps below the foul line and threw down a thunderous dunk. Battle finished with 28 points and was 6 of 9 from 3-point range.

It was the ninth time in 18 games this season Battle scored more than 20 points.

“I challenged them at halftime, and give them credit, they came out and responded,” Eilert said.

In what ended up being a 31-7 run in just under 11 minutes, Seth Wilson hit a key 3-pointer and Quinn Slazinski added a key bucket with a one-handed floater along the baseline.

But it was the Kriisa and Battle show all along.

Kriisa gave WVU its first lead of the second half, 77-74, with a 3-pointer with 2:13 left. He canned two free throws for a 79-75 lead a minute later.

Then disaster struck. First, it was Kansas State center Will McNair grabbing an airball and scoring it to cut WVU’s lead 79-77 with 51 seconds left.

WVU center Jesse Edwards struggled the entire game, and when he went to the foul line with 24 seconds left, he missed both, and K-State tied the game moments later when Tyler Perry made two free throws that sent the game into overtime.

Edwards made just 1 of 9 shots from the field and he was 3 of 9 from the foul line before fouling out of the game in overtime.

“He’s very capable, but we’ve just got to get that balance,” Eilert said of Edwards. “We’ve got to get his head up on the rim and sometimes he’s rushing things and not even shooting it on the turn. He’s got to get his balance and composure down there.”

Overall, the Mountaineers didn’t help their chances at getting a rare road win by going 17 of 26 from the foul line.

WVU’s last shot in regulation saw Kriisa run off nearly 14 seconds of the clock, before hoisting up a jump shot that came up short. Edwards grabbed the rebound and appeared to get bumped, but the referees ruled regulation had come to an end.

WVU’s only lead in overtime was brief, an 80-79 advantage coming from a free throw from Edwards.

From there, Perry hit a big 3-pointer — he finished with six threes and 29 points — and McNair got behind both Battle and Pat Suemnick on another play for a lay-up that gave K-State an 85-80 lead.

WVU did get as close as 90-91 with 12.3 seconds left after Kriisa made two free throws, but then Perry made two himself.

Battle took a long inbounds pass with 8.8 seconds left and got a good look at 3-pointer that could have tied it, but it was the only big shot he missed all night.

Cam Carter went 1 of 2 from the line with 4.1 seconds left for the final score, as the Mountaineers fell to 0-12 in games played away from the Coliseum this season.

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Saturday after Wednesday sub-state wins

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March 5, 2026

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Saturday after Wednesday sub-state wins

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Below is a look at the results from Wednesday night’s high school basketball sub-state semifinals in Northeast Kansas.

Editor’s Note: This story will be updated with what schools are hosting when that information becomes readily available.

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6A Boys West Sub-State: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Topeka High 57, Washburn Rural 50 (will play Maize Saturday)
Junction City 70, Dodge City 56 (will play Derby Saturday)
Manhattan 58, Wichita-Northwest 56 (will play Wichita-East Saturday)

4A Boys East Sub-State: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Rock Creek 62, Louisberg 57 (will play Bishop Miege Saturday)
Atchison 74, Wamego 43
Hayden 72, Independence 56 (will play Atchison Saturday)
Eudora 76, Santa Fe Trail 68

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5A West Girls: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Hays 80, Topeka West 18
Eisenhower 55, Seaman 41
Kapaun Mt. Carmel 71, Emporia 41

5A East Girls: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Shawnee Heights 89, Sumner 15 (will play Pittsburg Saturday)
Basehor-Linwood 74, Highland Park 28 (will play Piper Saturday)

3A Pomona-West Franklin Girls: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Osage City 75, Columbus 31 (will play Frontenac Saturday)

3A Sabetha Girls: Wednesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Silver Lake 48, Nemaha Central 26 (will play Riley County Saturday)
Riley County 51, Jeff West 40 (will play Silver Lake)

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Friday after Tuesday sub-state wins

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March 4, 2026

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Friday after Tuesday sub-state wins

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Below is a look at the results from Tuesday night’s high school basketball sub-state semifinals in Northeast Kansas.

Editor’s Note: This story will be updated with what schools are hosting when that information becomes readily available.

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5A East Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

KC Washington 68, Highland Park 38
Shawnee Heights 49, De Soto 37 (will play Leavenworth Friday)

5A West Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Topeka West 55, Hutchinson 32 (will play Bishop Carroll Friday)
Emporia 61, Great Bend 41 (will play Maize South Friday)
Seaman 73, Valley Center 51 (will play Hays Friday)

3A West Franklin Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Burlington 60, Osage City 35 (will play Baxter Springs Friday)

3A Sabetha Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Hiawatha 73, Oskaloosa 48 (will play Heritage Christian Friday)
Silver Lake 58, Sabetha 39 (will play Perry-Lecompton Friday 7:30 p.m.)

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6A West Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Washburn Rural 60, Wichita South 32 (will play Derby)
Topeka High 69, Maize 45 (will play Liberal)
Manhattan 67, Free State 21 (will play Wichita East)

4A East Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Rock Creek 71, Parsons 23 (will play Tonganoxie)
Wamego 54, Labette County 33 (will play Bishop Miege)
Hayden 2, Athison 0 (will play Baldwin)

2A Eskridge/Mission Valley Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Rossville 71, KC Christian 49 (will play Maur Hill-Mount Academy)
Lyndon 61, Jeff. Co. North 31 (will play Valley Heights)
Valley Heights 65, Doniphan West 41 (will play Lyndon)

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Doe v. State of Kansas | American Civil Liberties Union

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March 3, 2026

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Doe v. State of Kansas | American Civil Liberties Union

In early 2026, the Kansas state legislature passed SB 244, a law which prohibits transgender people from using public restrooms on government property that align with their gender identity and establishes a private right of action that allows anyone who suspects someone is transgender and in violation of the law to sue that person for “damages” totaling $1,000.

The law also invalidates state-issued driver’s licenses with updated gender markers that reflect the carrier’s gender identity. In February 2026, transgender people across the state received letters from the state Department of Revenue’s Division of Vehicles informing them that their driver’s licenses “will no longer be valid,” effective immediately. SB 244 also prohibits transgender Kansans – or those born in Kansas – from updating the gender marker on state-issued birth certificates and driver’s licenses in the future.

The same day SB 244 went into effect, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kansas, and Ballard Spahr LLP filed a lawsuit challenging SB 244 in the District Court of Douglas County on behalf of two transgender men who had their driver’s licenses invalidated under the law. The lawsuit charges that SB 244 violates the Kansas Constitution’s protections for personal autonomy, privacy, equality under the law, due process, and freedom of speech.

“The invalidation of state-issued IDs threatens to out transgender people against their will every time they apply for a job, rent an apartment, or interact with police,” said Harper Seldin, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project. “Taken as a whole, SB 244 is a transparent attempt to deny transgender people autonomy over their own identities and push them out of public life altogether.”

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