Kansas State will travel back to Morgantown Saturday for the fifth time since the Mountaineers blessed the Big 12 with a splash of Appalachian culture. The two teams don’t seem to have much connection outside of their conference affiliation, but their history goes back more than a century.
And it began with a prayer.
The “Praying” Colonels
The popular version of the story goes like this:
Bo McMillin led his Centre Colonials to one corner of Laidley Field in Charleston, W. Va., where they knelt in prayer.
Centre was a small school in Danville, Ky.