Kansas State Wildcats women's basketball
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| University | Kansas State University | |||
| Conference | Big 12 | |||
| Location | Manhattan, KS | |||
| Head coach | Jeff Mittie (2nd year) | |||
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Bramlage Coliseum (Capacity: 12,528) |
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| Nickname | Wildcats | |||
| Colors | Royal Purple and White |
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| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1982, 1983, 1984, 2002 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1997, 200, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016 | ||||
| AIAW Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1977 | ||||
| AIAW Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980 | ||||
| AIAW Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1976, 1977, 1982, 1984 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| Kansas State Conference 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 Big Eight Conference 1983, 1984, 1987 Big 12 Conference 2004, 2008 |
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The Kansas State Wildcats women's basketball program is the intercollegiate basketball program of the Kansas State Wildcats. The program is classified in the NCAA Division I, and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference.
The team has appeared in 19 NCAA and AIAW tournaments (second-most among Big 12 teams), and was crowned champion of the 2006 Women's National Invitation Tournament.
The team's head coach is Jeff Mittie. He was hired before the 2014–2015 season, after spending the prior fifteen seasons at TCU.
Kansas State began offering women's basketball as an organized intercollegiate sport in the 1968–1969 school year, under head coach Judy Akers. Because the NCAA did not sponsor women's sports until 1982, the governing bodies for women's basketball in the earliest years were the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) and the AIAW.
The Big Eight Conference likewise did not sponsor women's basketball in its earliest years, so Kansas State competed against the University of Kansas, Wichita State, and other state schools for the "Kansas State Conference" championship. Kansas State won eight straight Kansas Conference titles, from 1972 to 1979. The Big Eight Conference began offering a mid-season basketball tournament in the 1975–1976 season, and then began sponsoring a regular season competition in 1982–1983. Kansas State won the first two Big Eight tournament titles, in 1976 and 1977, and then won the first two Big Eight regular season titles, in 1983 and 1984.
The longest-tenured and winningest head coach in team history is Deb Patterson. Patterson spent eighteen years at Kansas State and compiled a 350–226 (.608) record. She won two Big 12 Conference titles (2004 and 2008) and a WNIT title (2006). Before Patterson, the winningest coach at Kansas State was Judy Akers, the first coach in program history, who compiled a 206–94 (.687) record. Akers also captured eight Kansas State Conference titles (1972–1979) and the first two titles in the Big Eight Conference after it began sponsoring women's basketball (1976 and 1977 mid-season tournaments).
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