By Ned Seaton

Four months have come and gone since K-State fired basketball coach Jerome Tang. Still hanging fire is a dispute over a buyout clause in his contract that appeared to mean the Athletics Department would have to pay him $18.7 million.

Since then? Still no filing. Any lawsuit has to be filed in district court in Riley County, according to the contract.

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In a statement on Wednesday night from K-State athletics director Gene Taylor, it has been announced that K-State forward Nae’Qwan Tomlin will not return to the K-State men’s basketball program.

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Kansas State men’s basketball forward Nae’Qwan Tomlin bonded out of jail early Sunday morning after being arrested by Riley County police on charges of disorderly conduct and brawling/fighting.

According to the Sunday RCPD Incident Report, Tomlin was arrested at Tubby’s Sports Bar, in the 1100 block of Moro.

The incident report stated Tomlin was released on $750 bond.

A senior, Tomlin returned to K-State after making himself eligible for the NBA Draft but later withdrawing. He averaged 10.4 points, 5.9 rebounds and one blocked shot per game for the Wildcats in their Elite Eight run of a season ago.

The former NJCAA All America honorable mention is preparing to play his second season at Kansas State after two years at Chipola College in Florida.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (Kansas State Athletics)  – Wyatt Thompson, who is entering his 21^st season as the Voice of the Wildcats, will be inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame as he is one of three inductees to be enshrined in the Class of 2022.

The ceremony will take place October 24 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan, and Thompson will be joined in the class by radio engineer Don Free, who was a longtime member of both the Kansas City Royals and K-State Sports Network radio networks.

Over the course of his career, Thompson has been named the Kansas Sportscaster of the Year six times and ranks second all-time among K-State broadcasters in awards and fourth all-time among broadcasters in the state of Kansas. He has served the KAB by regularly appearing at the annual KAB convention as a panelist and/or speaker, advising numerous aspiring broadcasters on their craft, and impacting many young radio broadcasters.

In addition to his play-by-play duties for Wildcat football and men’s basketball, Thompson can be seen regularly each summer at each Catbacker event across the state in addition to hosting various radio programs, events and programs at K-State and in the Manhattan community.

He started his broadcasting career in 1976 as a sportscaster for various high schools, colleges and universities in Kansas, spending time at stations in Great Bend and Abilene.

Thompson worked for KAYS radio and television in Hays from 1985 until 1989 where he was the play-by-play voice at Fort Hays State. While in Kansas, he was recognized with the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) Play-by-Play Award in 1982 and the Oscar Stauffer Sportscaster of the Year Award in 1989.

Thompson, also the 2011 recipient of the Hod Humiston Award from the KAB, came to Kansas State in 2002 from Colorado State, where he was the play-by-play voice for CSU’s football and men’s basketball teams for five years.

An accomplished professional, Thompson won the Colorado Broadcasting Association award for best play-by-play in 2000. In addition to his duties at CSU, Thompson was also a sports reporter for Clear Channel Denver, the Countdown to Kickoff host for the Denver Broncos on KOA Radio and hosted the Zone Sports Insiders show on 760 The Zone in Denver.