My favorite story about Kansas State’s lavender basketball uniforms is, oddly, from a game in which the Wildcats chose not to wear them.
The year was 2010 and a K-State basketball team led by Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente was about to play Kansas in the championship game of the Big 12 Tournament. The morning of the game, I chatted with then assistant coach Matt Figger (now at Austin Peay) at the team hotel in Kansas City. He said the Wildcats had a special surprise for the Jayhawks.
They lost both regular-season meetings, wearing white at home and black on the road.