2025-26 Men's Basketball News
Playing major roles for the Cowley College men’s basketball team, four Tigers recently signed letters of intent to continue their playing careers at four-year schools.
High school basketball fans should plan to attend the Cowley College Tigers and Arkansas City High School Bulldogs Men’s Basketball Team Camp on Tuesday, June 9, in Arkansas City.
Josiah Kirkwood’s step-back banked-in three-pointer with 1.5 seconds left in Friday’s Plains District semifinal game lifted the No. 2-seed Butler Grizzlies to a 105-104 win over the No. 6-seed Cowley College men’s basketball team. The Tigers finish the season with a record of 20-13, while Butler went on to capture the District title with a win over top-seed Barton in Saturday’s championship game played in Great Bend, KS.
After dropping a pair of home games against Seminole State College (OK) on Friday, the Cowley College softball team suffered a couple of road defeats while facing the Trojans on Saturday in Seminole, OK. The Lady Tigers dropped Friday’s doubleheader by scores of 7-1 and 8-4 before losing on Saturday by scores of 6-5 and 8-0.
Helping the Cowley College men’s basketball team achieve 20-plus wins and a chance for more, the Tigers had three players named to the Kansas Jayhawk Community College All-Conference list.
Trailing by as many as 10 points in the first half, the No. 6-seed Cowley College men’s basketball team put on the clamps defensively and advanced to the District Plains Tournament Semifinals with a 76-69 win at No. 3-seed Dodge City on Tuesday.
Fighting back from a 50-43 second-half deficit, the No. 6-seed Cowley College men’s basketball team got the go-ahead basket from freshman Marcus Smith with 22 seconds remaining and then got a huge block from Khai Brown to help the Tigers defeat 11th-seed Hutchinson Community College 61-60 in the First Round of the District Plains Tournament held Saturday inside W.S. Scott Auditorium.
In a game that featured 58 fouls and 87 free throws, the No. 17-ranked Barton County Cougars came back from a nine-point halftime deficit to defeat the Cowley College men’s basketball team 85-79 in the Tigers’ final home game of the regular season.
Scoring the final 12 points of Saturday’s game in Liberal, the host Seward County Saints pulled away for a 79-66 win over the Cowley College men’s basketball team.
Scoring over 100 points for the second time in its past three games, the Cowley College men’s basketball team picked up a huge, 101-83 road win at Independence Community College on Wednesday.
Leading their teams to wins and positioning their squads for potential home playoff games next week, Cowley College guard Kyden Thompson and Highland Community College’s Colton Knoll have been named the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Men’s Basketball Players of the Week.
Needing a win to move within one game of first place Butler Community College in the Jayhawk Conference standings, the Cowley College men’s basketball team fell behind early and was unable to get over the hump against the No. 16-ranked Grizzlies in a 106-94 home loss on Saturday inside W.S. Scott Auditorium.
After losing by one point at Garden City back on January 3, the Cowley College men’s basketball team had payback on its mind during Wednesday night’s Homecoming game inside W.S. Scott Auditorium. The teams had 12 ties and nine lead changes in the first half before the Tigers scored 57 second-half points to win 100-76.
Unable to slow down Fort Hays Tech Northwest’s Marquintez Dixon, the Cowley College men’s basketball team suffered an 89-82 road defeat on Sunday in Goodland, KS.
Racing out to a 25-7 lead in its game at Pratt on Wednesday, the Cowley College men’s basketball team cruised to an 81-61 road win.
Playing in front of numerous members of the Tiger Athletic Hall of Fame and the newly inducted Class of 2026, the Cowley College men’s basketball team sent the fans home with a 63-60 victory over rival Hutchinson Community College.
