Show me the bacon

Give Kansas State credit for offering students free bacon to boost attendance for its women’s basketball opener Friday night, but dock the Wildcats for style points.

It seems the offer would have worked a little better if the Wildcats were playing the Arkansas Razorbacks instead of Tennessee State.

“It was really, honestly, more of a joke when we threw it out to the committee at first,” said Bethany Cordell, a graduate assistant in Kansas State’s Fan Experience and Sales office. “We were like, ‘What about bacon?’ When we got such an overwhelmingly excited response, it was something we definitely had to look into.”