GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (WIBW) – Monday night’s exhibition basketball game between K-State and Nebraska meant more than a preseason matchup.
The schools dedicated the game to Greg Sharpe, the former broadcaster who served as the play-by-play voice of both universities and died in February 2025 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The matchup at the BigIron Events Center in Grand Island was dubbed the Greg Sharpe Scholarship Game.
Sharpe spent a decade working at WIBW in Topeka, beginning his broadcasting career as an intern at WIBW-TV in 1986 before moving into a full-time role. He later became the radio play-by-play voice for Kansas State athletics from 1996 to 2002 before joining Nebraska in 2007, where he became the voice of the Huskers’ football and baseball programs…