Jim Wooldridge has many stories to tell about Kansas State’s last victory over Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.
He remembers the game plan and the roster, the bad first half and the heart-pounding comeback, the celebration in Lawrence and the party in Manhattan. And there is no forgetting the way he broke his pinky finger at halftime punching a chalkboard at the end of a motivational speech.
But the former K-State basketball coach can also boil down the game – a 59-55 win in 2006 – to one word.
“It was just so unique,” Wooldridge, now the athletic director at Riverside (Calif.