PROVO, Utah — BYU baseball will host Kansas State in a midweek non-conference game on Tuesday, March 31 at 3 p.m. MT at Miller Park. The Cougars will then head to Waco, Texas for a three-game Big 12 series with Baylor, April 2-4.
BROADCAST PLANS. The K-State-BYU game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and will also be available on the BYU Radio app, BYUradio.org, SiriusXM 143 and 107.9 FM in Utah County.
BYU-KSU MATCHUP. BYU is 13-13 on the year while K-State is 18-10. Currently at 4-5 in conference games, the Cougars and Wildcats are in a four-way tie for eighth in the Big 12 baseball standings with Texas Tech and Cincinnati. Tuesday’s game is a non-conference midweek game and will not factor into the conference standings. BYU and KSU are not scheduled to play a three-game conference series in 2026.
SERIES HISTORY. Tuesday marks the 16th all-time baseball meeting between BYU and K-State. The Wildcats lead the series 9-6 although the Cougars hold a 5-2 advantage in games played at Miller Park. K-State took two of three games from BYU last year in Provo (May 1-3), with the Cougars winning game one (11-6) before falling in games two and three (4-18, 4-13). The Wildcats won the first ever meeting between the two universities, 7-1, on March 25, 1971, at the Riverside Baseball Invitational in Riverside, California.
WEEKEND RECAP. BYU is coming off a 3-1 week with a non-conference victory over Utah in Salt Lake (6-5) and two-of-three wins over Oklahoma State (6-5, 5-12, 5-4) in a Big 12 series in Provo. All three Cougar victories came in dramatic fashion.
At Utah Tuesday night, Ryder Robinson went 4-4 with two RBI and two runs scored, while right fielder Tu’alau Wolfgramm made a diving catch on the warning track in right center for the final out of the game to end Utah’s hopes of a comeback in the ninth and cement BYU’s 6-5 win.
Two nights later in game one with OSU, senior third baseman Easton Jones wrapped up a come-from-behind 6-5 victory with a 10th inning walk-off home run at Miller Park. Senior righthander Garrison Sumner went a season-long seven innings scattering just four hits to keep the game close through the end of regulation, while Nate Gray set the Cowboys down in order in the 10th frame setting up Jones’ heroics.
The Cowboys rebounded from the tough loss Thursday with a 12-5 win over the Cougars on Friday evening.
In Saturday’s rubber match, Gray took the mound again with one out in the third inning and proceeded to go the distance. Over 6.2 innings the junior righthander allowed just two hits and one run while striking out six for his second win in three nights. In two outings versus OSU, Gray pitched 7.2 innings, threw 111 pitches, faced 27 hitters, striking out 7 with an era of 1.17.
Despite Gray's performance, and the Cougar offense having doubled OSU in hits 8-4, BYU entered the bottom of the ninth down 4-2. With one out, Anderson was hit by a pitch bringing the tying run to the plate. McNaughton then doubled to left, scoring Anderson from first to pull to within one. After a strikeout left BYU down to its last out, Painter hit a walk-off home run to straight-away center over the 402-foot sign for a 5-4 win, the Cougars' second walk-off home run of the series.