****The Official 2013-2014 Wichita State Repository thread****

[journeyscarab]

Didn't see one of these for the new season yet, so here we go!

GO SHOX!

[Mr. Arrowhead]

Awesome piece

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...-arch-madness/

[Andoverer]

Yes a great article Mr. Arrowhead!

Liked this part:

"My friends give me a ton of s--- because of your schedule," Rudawsky told Marshall, whose team's worthiness for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament has been #hottake fodder for weeks. Their top wins are at St. Louis and at home versus Tennessee, but a mid-major can only control so much of its scheduling: Most elite majors feel they have little to gain by subjecting themselves to a possible humbling by Wichita State. Rudawksy said this was Marshall's reply, "If they're complaining, tell them to have their favorite team call me, and I'll put them on our schedule."

[boogblaster]

Marshall is right .. schedule up if ya want to play us ....

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Mr. Arrowhead

Yup that sounding very likely, although I think KU still has a shot at the last #1 seed in the East if they win the big 12 tourney

That is probably not happening with Embiid out.

In fact, not much is happening for KU as long as Embiid is out.

[Mr. Arrowhead]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

That is probably not happening with Embiid out.

In fact, not much is happening for KU as long as Embiid is out.

Yup just saw hes out for a while now, last #1 is prolly Villanova's if they can win the big east tourney

[journeyscarab]

http://www.kansas.com/2014/03/11/333...dedicates.html


Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad dedicates ‘Wooo Shock’ locomotive

By Jerry Siebenmark
The Wichita Eagle


The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad on Tuesday rolled out a 262,000-pound locomotive in support of Wichita State University.

Dubbed “Wooo Shock” by the Wichita-based shortline railroad, the GP-40-2 diesel locomotive sports the WuShock logo on its front, sides and back.

Railroad officials showed off the locomotive by powering it down the tracks in southwest Wichita to a crowd of about 100 Shocker supporters and railroad employees and WSU president John Bardo.

“Wow! That’s a big Shocker,” Bardo said after locomotive No. 4001 came to a stop on the tracks near 800 W. Walker.

“We appreciate the K&O railroad doing this and honoring our university,” he said.

Jimmy Patterson, the railroad’s general manager, said in an interview following the dedication that his company wanted to do something to show its support for WSU and the city.

The honor comes a few days after the WSU’s men’s basketball team wound up its regular season and conference tournament undefeated, with a 34-0 record.

“We just wanted to show pride in our local community,” Patterson said. “We decided to make this Wooo Shock and let it run across Kansas.”

The decorating of the locomotive consisted of gaining permission from WSU for use of the WuShock and Go Shocks logos, hiring a local firm to produce large decals of the logos and applying the decals to the recently painted black-and-yellow, 3,000-horsepower locomotive, which was manufactured in 1974. Patterson said application of the logos took workers about a day.

“We had our crew up till midnight last night” making sure the locomotive was ready, he said.

He said the locomotive’s black and yellow were not part of the makeover. All of the railroad’s locomotives, as well as many of the others operated by its parent company, Watco Cos., have the same color scheme.

The railroad, which employs 91 people, had once before discussed decorating one of its locomotives to honor the Shockers.

“We had talked about doing it three or four years ago,” Patterson said. “Once they (the men’s basketball team) got on their run this year, we decided now’s the time to do it.”

He said Watco has done similar dedications, including for Pittsburg State University. Watco is based in Pittsburg, Kan. The Kansas and Oklahoma is one of 31 railroads Watco owns and operates in 21 states and western Australia.

The Kansas and Oklahoma originates more than 800 miles of track from Wichita to Conway Springs to the south, Pratt to the west and Corinth to the north. In 2001, Watco acquired the railroad, previously known as Central Kansas Railway, from Denver-based OmniTrax.

[Coach]

This is how a great coach does things right.

The Cupples Ballroom at the Westin St. Louis is Wichita State's team-meeting headquarters for the weekend, and Heiar is leading their initial breakdown of Saturday's semifinal opponent, No. 4-seeded Missouri State. He starts by saying, "They're going to try to punk you. They made the toughness plays down the stretch today--"

"Hold up, I want to touch on that," Marshall says, before getting out of his chair, walking to the front of the room and positioning himself in front of the 6-foot-8, 219-pound Early, whom the coach begins to question directly. "What were you telling me during the game today? That 'I'm going to get in the weight room this spring?' Well, that doesn't do us any good right now. Get your ass and hips down and check the m----------r out! [Missouri State] punked you the last time we played [on March 1, a 68-45 win]. And they punked the team they played today, Illinois State. Don't tell me about the weight room, because I'm a guy that weighed 145 pounds coming out of high school, and I'd check my guy out. Because it's about will, it's about toughness, it's about heart. That's what this game comes down to. We don't let [guard Austin] Ruder make threes and we f----ing check out, we will beat this team."

[Mr. Arrowhead]

Cant wait to see WSU on that 1 line today. Never in my wildest dreams thought this would happen

[alnorth]

Good luck shockers, you guys got handed probably the toughest half of the toughest region.

[Coach]

What a brutal bracket.

[Reerun_KC]

They get an opportunity to earn and prove themselves.

[BlackHelicopters]

Brutal region

[Mr. Arrowhead]

no offense to k state fans, but please give me kentucky, we will show them boys the correct way to play basketball

[alnorth]

Just took another look, that is the toughest half of the toughest region I've seen in a while. If Wichita State loses, people will say "told ya so" which may be unfair.

K-State or Kentucky, then a hilariously underseeded Louisville squad, and then Duke or Michigan. DAMN.

[threebag]

"It's a Long ways to the top if you wanna rock n roll"

GOOD LUCK SHOX.