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Shocks get big news today that they have signed Top 150 recruit Teddy Hawkins. This is with Fred Van Vleet and Cleanthony Early, this may be Marshall best recruiting class since hes been here. Now onto Colorado in Puerto Rico Tip Off

Game Day!!!! at 6:30 on ESPNU. Beat the Buffs!!!!

Thanks for the heads up on the game! :thumb:

I like Marshall. I was hoping Mizzou would give him a hard look.

Hush your mouth! :#

I think the guy honestly likes what he has going on at WSU, but I have thought that before.

Shox win 67-58 and get a nit title rematch with Alabama tomorrow at 8 on ESPN 2
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Should be a good one

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Yea it should be, we have to play alot better than we did tonight, 16 turnovers wont cut it tomorrow.

LOL is this thread for real?

yea why?

Wichita State. Really?

Screw Wichita State. Go Bears!

Yeah, you have a problem with that? Really?

Go Shockers!! Roll the Tide.:thumb:

GO SHOX!

Your mother sucks cocks in hell

THIS!!

Your mother licks the semen off the floor when she's done...

Yea they arent exactly UMKC LMAO, Wichita State has alot of tradition and they have a very strong fan base that sells out almost every game. They also have a hell of a basketball team.

Kyle Weems mom is a tool [smack talk]

Well thats a bummer. Stutz gets into foul trouble early and Mitchell and Green were too much. I like what Hall is bring to the team though!

They have to get more or anything out of Kyles. He was definitely playing disinterested and Marshall could see it. It's put up or shut up SENIOR.

Yea that game sucked for sure, Alabama is gonna be pretty good tho, they are insanely athletic. Both D will and Kyles needs to get their head in the game. Plus 18 turnovers and shooting 33% wont cut it against a team like Alabama. But hopefully the guys learn from it and move it. Bring on Temple 4:30 on Sunday on ESPN 2.

Lets take care of business tonight against Cal St. Fullerton, and then its a big one on Sunday against #18 UNLV

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GO SHOX!

GO SHOX ....

Shox struggled a little bit last night in the 1st half, but put it to Cal st in the 2nd half winning 75-60. Carl Hall was a downright beast scoring 19 points and 8 boards. We are gonna need to play a full game to beat UNLV on Sunday, should be a an intense atmosphere. Go Shox!!!!

Agreed! I love what Hall is bringing to the team. We need a standout player to spark the team. GO SHOX!

For any out of towner that dont have cox to watch the game on TV sunday, I guess they will be streaming the game at www.cox96.net

Cool. Thanks for the tip!

GO SHOX!!!!! Domination over #18 UNLV 89-70. Now thats what im talking about. Joe was insane with 31 points.

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I wonder if we will be ranked tomorrow?

Great win yesterday

well i guess not, we didnt even get 1 vote in the coaches poll

Its early. If they keep playing the way the are, they will get their recognition.

we got Tulsa on the road tonight. Im making the 3 hour trip, and will be in the 2nd row behind the shocker bench. Game start is 7 pm and is on cox 22. Go Shox!!!

Go Shox! Have fun!

Sweet game, Shocker Nation showed up and took over the Reynolds center. Tulsa was making shots early and we were down 8, but when it mattered the Senior took over. After the game Coach Gregg Marshall acknowledged the shocker fans that made the trip and gave us a thumbs up.

Beating Tulsa is always a good thing. When I attended WSU, Tulsa was the main rival, especially in football.

Yea, I was shocked at the lack of support Tulsa has for the basketball program, had just a attendance of 4,000 that showed for the game. Shocker fan were clearly louder. I just remember the days they had Nolan Richardson and Bill Self.

That really is poor attendance. Tulsa is a pretty small school IIRC, right? They were always kind of an overachiever.
Oral Roberts actually used to have a better BB program from that town, but haven't heard anything from them lately.

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/story...laim-no-1-spot

Wichita State Shockers (9-2)
Gregg Marshall's club debuts atop the tweaked rankings despite a weak few days that included a beatdown of winless Chicago State on Dec. 14 and Sunday night's 102-53 thrashing of the Wichita-based D-II Newman Jets. November's back-to-back losses to Alabama and Temple are the only blemishes on a schedule studded with quality wins over opponents such as UNLV, Utah State and Tulsa. The Shockers are riding high with a senior-laden roster that hustles inside and out. WSU opponents shoot just 26.8 percent from deep, and missed shots are routinely corralled by 7-footer Garrett Stutz, who boasts an excellent 23.7 defensive rebounding percentage.

GO SHOCKS ......

Scored tickets to the Creighton New Years Eve game and taking my son. Looking forward to seeing them play in person at Koch Arena. Anything cool we should check out there before or after the game? We are from Wichita originally, so I am talking about stuff to do/see at the arena. Probably not a chance of getting autographs from the team is there?

safe to say Shocks are firing on all cyndiers after tonight dominate performance, which handed Bradley home lose ever, by winning 90-51. Now bring on sCUm on saturday

Awesome!!! How long has it been since you been to a game?

I think its been over 10 years since I've seen one in Wichita. We've caught a few games here in KC so we are looking forward to this one. I hear its a blackout game?

Yup wear your black, you should arrive a little early and go to the Shocker hall of fame in Koch Arena, its pretty neat. A couple places to eat near by is the Cajuan Shack, its insane, its right on 21th and Woodlawn. And last be loud!!!!! It sure would be nice to be up 2 games on creighton after saturday.

Edit- If you guys hang around after the game, you should be able to get some of the players autographs.

My thought exactly. I was like WTF... ROFL... and I came in and it was all serious. :spock:


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Cool! Thanks for the info. We have our black shirts and we'll be ready to go. Its going to be awesome!

Well the loss to Creighton was disappointing but being there for a home opener for the first time with my son was incredible! I showed him around the campus and picked up some cool souvenirs you cant get in KC and enjoyed the game. 16 more games...things will improve.

yea it sucks, especially losing to Creighton. But we will be fine, we just played a terrible 2nd half, I think we will bounce back. Evansville is next on Wednesday.

Need to bounce back tonight at 1st place evansville

Shox with a nice Road win at Indiana St on ESPNU 75-65. Shox are now 4-0 on the road in MVC play are in a first place tie with Creighton at 6-1. Got at UNI next on Wednesday

Yep they are looking good!

Close one tonight at UNI but the Shox pulled it out at the end. This team is really humming along.

TOURE FREAKING MURRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go Jays. Close one tonight

gotta love the Valley, the 2 most supportive fan bases are in a 2 team race.

For the true sports fan/Its a great lil conference.

Shox only 1 of 3 teams that is undefeated on the road this season. #roadwarriors

Agreed!

Loved the absolute blow out of Bradley on the road. The lady Shockers are having a good year as well.

As long as we take care of business, the Valley title will come down to the Feb 11th game at Creighton. And yup the lady shox are unbeaten so far in valley play.

We just handed SIU worst loss in their school history with a 85-42 drubbing.

Sweet Article on Coach Marshall

http://eye-on-college-basketball.blo...83066/34551166

Marshall grateful he didn't leave Wichita State
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Marshall has been a head coach since 1997, and only once has he had a team finish under .500. (US PRESSWIRE)

By Matt Norlander

Wichita State is going to the NCAA tournament. Count on that as much you would Syracuse, North Carolina, Kentucky or Ohio State to get to the field of 68. Gregg Marshall has his team performing at the highest of “mid-major” levels once again; his shockers sit at 17-3, on the verge of another 20-win season … yet find themselves an afterthought on the national landscape.

That a team like this isn’t catching eyes and tugging ears isn’t surprising — plenty of three-loss teams from outside the Big Six have yet to get their true do; Murray State will soak up all the non-BCS conference attention so long as that bagel sits on their ledger — but normally such a strong team in the Missouri Valley would command more attention by late January. Perhaps that speaks to first-place Creighton and its First Team All- America-worthy forward, Doug McDermott. We’ve already said, and will continue to say, plenty about the Bluejays.

But for now let’s discuss the Shockers’ not-so-shocking season so far and the man responsible for it.

It’s ironic that Marshall gets so much more attention in the offseason than he does from November to February. Marshall’s become one of the top targets for major-conference jobs. He could have easily not been the subject of this post. He could’ve left Wichita State last spring, after his team won the NIT, or the year before that. He passed on the N.C. State job (with a $1.9 million-per-year contract on the table) and the Texas A&M job and other jobs too. He’s done interview after interview, becoming a guy that’s on many an athletic director’s cherished “list,” should they choose to bail on the current coach in search of the next big one.

“In 13 years as a head coach, every year when you have success — Winthrop or Wichita State — when you have success, something is bantered about,” he said by phone last Friday, one day before his team beat Southern Illinois 85-42 at home. “In nine years at Winthrop, I probably had nine interviews. Maybe two one year and none the other year.”

It’s about timing as much as it is — or, in some instances, isn’t — about money for Marshall. He desperately wanted the Tennessee job that went to Buzz Peterson in 2001. He passed on a particularly tough Big East gig (that was offering more money) in 2007, when he opted to leave Winthrop for Wichita State. Winthrop was willing to name its court after him. But it was only if Marshall agreed to an ironclad 10-year contract, no outs involved.

He couldn’t do it. Loved Winthrop, but didn’t want his options taken away.

Through four and a half seasons at WSU, Marshall’s 99-58 and once again showing why he’s earned all that coveting by the bigger boys each April. He’s thrilled with where he is now, though. And in talking to him, I think the way this season’s gone so far has only enhanced just how happy he and his wife were to make the decision to not leave Wichita last year. What was once thought to be a gamble turned into a no-brainer.

Because he stayed, Wichita State is one of the best clubs from outside the Big Six. Marshall’s got a team with a load of experience but also just enough young guys to keep it unpredictable. Among non-Big Six teams, his point guard, Joe Ragland, is one of the most dangerous offensive weapons at the 1 in the country. Seven-footer Garrett Stutz — who Marshall laments lacks some of “my nasty” when it comes to how he plays — leads the team, by one decimal, in scoring (12.4 per game to Ragland’s 12.3). Stutz is day-to-day with a back injury.

The team has a great win over UNLV. Not only great, but definitive. The Shockers beat the Runnin’ Rebels by 19 in early December. It’s the win that will vault them to a seed line higher than they would have had without the victory.

The winning’s felt good and reassuring, but these days it’s the loss to Creighton that eats at Marshall. It’s like he can’t wait to punch back. The rematch comes in Omaha on Feb. 11. Marshall maintains the Dec. 31 loss was the only game this season when all five of his seasons played poorly simultaneously. The losses to Alabama and Temple in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off? He can’t avenge those two, the only other scratches from the schedule. Creighton’s another story. Creighton’s when Wichita State can get the chance to become the story of the Valley.

“I don’t know that we’re better than Creighton. I think that if we played 10 times, the series would go 4-6, 5-5,” Marshall said.

When I offer up the fact this team is top-20 in points per possession scored and allowed — something that’s never happened with any of his teams before — Marshall is shocked and please. He took the opportunity to reflect on 52 months spent in Kansas.

“When we got here, it was a little bare,” Marshall said. “Mark Turgeon had done a wonderful job. They were eighth-ranked in the country in Christmas of ’06, and then lost 14 out of 22, and it just fell apart. There were transfers, and when l arrived April 14, 2007, we had seven scholarships to give.”

The first year wasn’t good, but it remains the only time Marshall’s coached a team under .500. Since then, the real mark of his work as a coach is shown in the chart below. Every year since his arrival in Wichita, his teams have noticeably, incrementally gotten better in scoring more points per possession and allowing few points per possession, save the minor dip (103.8 to 102.2) on offense from year one to two. It's incredibly tough to get your team to improve like this year each over the course of five seasons. He’s approaching a ceiling, which is a good thing — there isn’t much room left to climb! Currently the Shockers are 14th overall in both adjusted offense and defense on KenPom.com.



Marshall attributes the ever-rising rankings to his change in strategy. Up until two years ago his teams jogged the ball up the floor after a made basket, always running a methodical set play. Now it’s pushing more frequently, evidenced by the 66. 8 possessions per game, also an all-time high for Marshall at Wichita State.



“Maybe I’ve just gotten smarter,” Marshall joked. “Maybe I’m playing more to the strengths of my group than I was earlier in my career. And as for our rebounding, we always say the defensive is possession is not over when the shot is taken. It is only over when you have the ball secure and are now on offense.”

If WSU keeps winning like this, and Marshall’s able to get the Shockers to their ninth NCAA tournament (the first under him), the calls will come again once the season ends. Don’t bank on him leaving, unless an incredible deal comes along. Marshall has coming in what he thinks is the best recruiting class he’s ever assembled. He and his wife would like to see their children graduate from high school in Wichita.
Nevertheless, we're approaching a point where Marshall's work will be noticed as much during the season as after it. He's earned it, and his team deserves the same amount of credit as well.

Shox are FSN KC right now playing, at half time and they are beating Evansville 51-34. Stutz with 15 at halftime.

Shox pull it out 86-74, we remain in a 1st place tie with Creighton at 9-1 and we are 18-3 overall. Off to Drake on Saturday

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Ditto.

Is Wstate ranked?

No we should be, if we win at Drake Saturday, we might slip in at 25 on monday

The team is playing pretty well.

GO SHOCKERS!

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/20...nal-attention/

Time to give Wichita State some more national attention

Mike Miller

Jan 26, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
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Love me some Doug McDermott and Creighton. Been on the Bluejays’ bandwagon before the season started and neither McDermott (23.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 50.7 from deep) or Creighton (19-2).

But that adulation has overshadowed another Missouri Valley team deserving of equal praise – Wichita State.

The Shockers might even be the better team.

An 86-74 win against Evansville Wednesday night kept them tied with Creighton atop the conference (both are 9-1) and on target for their first NCAA tournament berth since 2006. WSU has won 16 of its last 17 – including an impressive 89-70 win over UNLV – with its lone loss coming to … Creighton. (One reason why the Jays get more national attention.)

But chew on this: The Shockers (18-3) are one of seven teams whose offense and defense rank among the Top 20 in adjusted efficiency on kenpom.com. The other six? Syracuse, Kentucky, Michigan State, Kansas, Ohio State and North Carolina.

That’s some impressive company.

Much of the credit goes to coach Gregg Marshall, who took over from Mark Turgeon in 2008 and has watched his team improve every season. That’s not just empty praise, either. They’ve gone from 11-20 to 29-8 last season and could hit 30 wins this year. As Matt Norlander notes, the Shockers’ offensive and defensive efficiency has improved every season, a testament to his coaching and his players’ dedication.

From his story:

“When we got here, it was a little bare,” Marshall said. “Mark Turgeon had done a wonderful job. They were eighth-ranked in the country in Christmas of ’06, and then lost 14 out of 22, and it just fell apart. There were transfers, and when l arrived April 14, 2007, we had seven scholarships to give.”

The first year wasn’t good, but it remains the only time Marshall’s coached a team under .500. Since then, the real mark of his work as a coach is shown in the chart below. Every year since his arrival in Wichita, his teams have noticeably, incrementally gotten better in scoring more points per possession and allowing few points per possession, save the minor dip (103.8 to 102.2) on offense from year one to two. It’s incredibly tough to get your team to improve like this year each over the course of five seasons. He’s approaching a ceiling, which is a good thing — there isn’t much room left to climb!

Marshall attributes the ever-rising rankings to his change in strategy. Up until two years ago his teams jogged the ball up the floor after a made basket, always running a methodical set play. Now it’s pushing more frequently, evidenced by the 66. 8 possessions per game, also an all-time high for Marshall at Wichita State.

“Maybe I’ve just gotten smarter,” Marshall joked. “Maybe I’m playing more to the strengths of my group than I was earlier in my career. And as for our rebounding, we always say the defensive is possession is not over when the shot is taken. It is only over when you have the ball secure and are now on offense.”

(Also be sure to check the story for a couple of nifty graphs that help explain what WSU’s done.)

Three big dates remain on Wichita State’s schedule: A Feb. 1 game at Missouri State, a BracketBuster game (opponent TBD) and a Feb. 11 rematch against Creighton in Omaha.

If WSU wins that game, expect a little more national attention to comes its way. But you can say you knew that was due.

Tip off at 8 tonight on FSN KC. GO SHOX!!!!!

Ready to put an ass whipping on the Shuckheads on Wednesday night.
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WSU v Murray St Bracket buster game.