Three days have passed since Tess Heal came off the bench to score a season-high 31 points, including a Kansas State record 21 points in the fourth quarter, and just a couple days have passed since the native Australian signed her first professional basketball contract, and only one day has passed since Sara Heal flew 9,171 miles from Melbourne, Australia to Manhattan to hug her daughter and watch her play a game during her senior season.
On Thursday, just before noon, Brian Lepak sits in his office in a lavender polo shirt with a dark Powercat upon the chest. To his right of his L-shaped desk is one desktop computer, two laptops, and two cellphones. One cellphone he picks up and shoots a glance at nearly every minute. To Lepak's left is a wall-sized white dry-erase board bearing a list of names and notes sprawled out in green ink.
Cory Patterson, who comes to Kansas State to serve as running backs coach after eight years of work at Power 4 schools, made his presence known before the native of St. Louis, Missouri, donned the Powercat quarter-zip for the first time.
Nick Toth hasn't been here long. He arrived at the Vanier Family Football Complex, looked at the indoor football practice facility, checked out the football field — a football field he played upon in 1997 and coached upon in 2011 — and the former Air Force safeties coach drew an emphatic conclusion.
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