Yuck.

Down 1 with 40 seconds or so left.

Not sure why Marshall decided to foul -- even if he only made 1-2.

And Jake White is a TERRIBLE three point shooter.

Why they run plays and he continues to shoot them is beyond me.

yup a very disappointing game, cant expect to turn the ball over 22 times and win on the road or anywhere for that matter. But as disappointing as it was, the bright side is we get Carl Hall back on Wednesday, and we did go 6-1 without him. Every shocker fan would have taken that record once the injury happened. This loss does make the Creighton game next Saturday an absolute must win. Time to learn from our mistakes and get better, the season is still very young.

Ugh...what a mess. Turnovers are killing us. I know its only one game but as hard as it is for MVC to get more than two teams into the dance, it's games like this that come back to haunt us. It puts pressure on the remaining games. Mr. Arrowhead is right though...this 6-1 run was not what I expected with three starters out, so there is that. Gotta put this one behind us and get ready for the next one. Take care of the rock and we'll take care of business. GO SHOX!

Shox get back on the winning track and knock up Ill St 74-62. Carl Hall returned and grabbed 10 boards. Saturday is the big one, Wichita State host #10 Creighton with 1st place on the line on ESPN 2 at 3 o'clock. Wichita is ready for this one, game has been sold out for over a month, and tickets are being sold on stub hub for as much as $200 a piece. Can't Wait!!!!

Let's go SHOCKERS! This is a big one!

2 hours til Game Time. Heres some pics of students that camped out last night, waiting to get into the door

http://instagram.com/p/UrNd2EMTJe/

Good luck guys. Should be a great game.
Lets go
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Great first half.

Score?

Witch has a 3 point lead at half. They are playing great, I dnt see the Jays pulling this out. JFC Wichita is awesome on the glass & second opportunity's

JFC these refs ****ing suck. You call a travel then reverse it 90 seconds later

I knew this was going to be a slugfest. Great game so far. LETS GO SHOCKS!

Btw...I loved the "Daddys Boy" taunting!

Good game. Shockers are just scrappy. Its been a hell of a season.

You guys have had the refs in your hip pocket all game

OH COME ON! There have been questionable calls for both sides (2 Hall calls). Its really been pretty even.

The flagrant foul was bs. Just nice to have some calls go our way for once.

You all got MOTHER ****ING LUCKY at the end of this one. Have a great season ! See your asses in a few weeks in Omaha

We win whoo hoo!

Whateves...your boys didn't show up. Media darling should have wiped the floor with us. I do believe you all are a tad overrated.

We'll see you in Council-tuckey and we'll bring our city with us.

Awww yeah baby!

Council-tuckey?
Dnt be a moron

I know the arena is really in Omaha...just messing with you.

I may have to stop by the Green Onion for a drink before the game.

Our boys got some toughness and heart dont they!!! Lol at them Creighton fans that are whining about the refs. Everytime we touched daddys boy it was a foul. But you all can cry tho, we exposed your soft ass team.

Great day to be a Kansan!

:clap::LOL:

We gutted it out. If we would have made many of those 3s we'd led by 15. I'm sorry but I am not that impressed with Creighton I seriously think they are just a bit overrated. Yes they belong in the Top 25 but not as a high as they've been lately.

Dam the next morning and im still giddy about the win. The best thing about this team, is they will get better, and we will get our best shooter in Ron Baker back in a couple of weeks. Our RPI is amazing 13. Im curious to see where we are ranked on Monday.

Being ranked for them usually spells a loss next game. Stay in the receives votes part of the polls, get a 7-10 seed and play the opening round in KC.

I was thinking the same thing. The shockers seem cursed when it comes to getting ranked.

Disagree, I think it has been a coincidence. We will see tho, cuz I do think they will at least be 25th this week

I think they deserve and should be ranked after this week. Hall is a beast and I love our aggressiveness. It was a great win but definitely need to work on our late game free throws. Hall missed what 4 out of 5 of his free throws in the last 2 minutes. The game shouldn't have been that close at the end.

Shox back in the ranking at 20 in the ap and 21 in the coaches. Now dont lose this time lol. We got Missouri State on Wednesday night.

Good news on two fronts tonight....Shockers pulled out the win against the Bears. They were pretty flat the first half giving up a 12 point lead by making stupid fouls. Then started out the second have flat again. Marshall must of lit them up during the first media break because they snapped out of their funk to win it.

The best news is we get to taste Doug McDermott tears again as Creighton lost to Drake tonight! One word "overrated". I stand by that claim too.

GO SHOX!!

Like I said Creighton=soft, soft, and soft

A awesome article on Gregg Marshall journey at WSU

http://rushthecourt.net/2013/01/24/i...wichita-state/

It Wasn’t Easy, But Gregg Marshall Has Worked His Magic at Wichita State
January 24th, 2013

Danny Spewak (@dspewak) is an RTC contributor. He filed this report following Wednesday night’s Wichita State victory at Missouri State.

On March 6, 2009, Gregg Marshall walked to the podium in the bowels of the Scottrade Center in St. Louis and delivered perhaps the most difficult postgame press conference of his career. Minutes earlier, Creighton’s Booker Woodfox banked in a jumper as time expired in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, even though replays showed a possible clock malfunction. Mass chaos all around. Reporters were interviewing the Missouri Valley commissioner in the hallway and demanding answers. The Shockers had heroically rallied from 22 points down, but this controversial shot sent them to the CBI.


Marshall’s press conference got emotional right away. He told us how his young child was begging him to appeal to the commissioner’s office, pleading for something to be done to rectify the situation. There was nothing anybody could do. The Shockers lost the game, and in two seasons, Marshall’s record at Wichita State stood only at 28-37. He left Winthrop for this? Marshall had been the king of the Big South. He had qualified for seven NCAA Tournaments with the Eagles and thrashed Notre Dame in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Now, he was trying to re-establish himself and his style of play all over again in the tough-as-nails Missouri Valley. Mark Turgeon hadn’t exactly left him a perfect situation when Marshall had taken over in 2007, but this proud program with a rabid fan base was going to need to see some improvement. And soon.

More than four years later, Marshall walked into the postgame press conference after Wednesday night’s 62-52 win at Missouri State with a strut. “I want to first congratulate the young man to my far right.” He’s pointing to Demetric Williams, the senior point guard who became the winningest player in Wichita State men’s basketball history on this particular evening. Williams was not on the Wichita State team that got Woodfoxed. He joined the program the following fall, and since then, he has epitomized the rise of Gregg Marshall and Wichita State. These days, his Shockers are ranked #20 in the nation and headed toward a second straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Much like last season’s 27-6 team, they have a clear identity and swagger. It’s not an identity anybody in the Valley wants to mess with any time soon. “Boy, they’re a good team,” Missouri State coach Paul Lusk said. “They’re different, but they’re really good. They might be more physical this year.”

That is a frightening proposition. Last season’s squad looked like a collection of bodybuilders in their warm-up suits, but we’ll go ahead and call this new version “Shocker 2.0″ this season. These guys are match-up nightmares at every position. Defensively, nobody can touch Wichita State in the Valley. We’ll start with Tekele Cotton. The sophomore guard used his big, strong, 6’2’’ frame to punish Missouri State leading scorer Anthony Downing, holding him to 4-of-14 from the field. He grabbed a few critical offensive rebounds in the final minutes, too, and he teams with Williams and Malcolm Armstead to form a dangerous group of defensive guards. “They give people fits,” Marshall said. So does Ehimen Orukpe, the 7’0’’ Nigerian native who did not play very well against the Bears but normally makes a major difference in the paint. And there’s that guy named Carl Hall – you know, the top returning player from a year ago – who’s so good his coach has named a new play for him. “It’s like the Green Bay Packer power sweep,” Marshall said. “Send it to Carl.” These guys rebound. They intimidate you. They rank near the top of Division I basketball in almost every defensive and rebounding category. That’s why they beat Creighton on Saturday, and it’s why they’re now in first place in the Valley after the Bluejays lost at Drake. When Wichita native Gavin Thurman went bananas and helped his Missouri State team build an eight-point lead in the second half, the Shockers quit messing around and D’ed some people up. Then, they scored 16 points in a row. Game over. Don’t play around with Wichita State. These guys are practically grown men. Wichita State may have tripped up at Evansville a few weeks ago, but that was during Hall’s injury. He returned this weekend. It’s a new team now.



Oh, and the Shockers do score, too. It’s amazing that you can gush about Wichita State’s defense for paragraphs and paragraphs and not even mention Cleanthony Early, the impact junior college transfer who pitches in about 15 points per game and burned Southern Illinois for 39 earlier this month. Marshall says he’s not quite an elite defender yet, but the Shockers have enough of those guys. Early makes life difficult for his own defenders, since he’s a 6’8’’ forward who shoots the ball well from mid-range and draws bigs away from the basket to guard him. He looked a little rusty at the start of Wednesday’s contest, but he quickly learned how to play ball in the Valley. “There’s gonna be some physical play, some holds and some grabs and some body slamming in the Valley, you’ve just gotta know that. I tell Cleanthony, ‘you’re the new guy. This is the way we play,’” Marshall said. “You’ve got to adjust.” He did, and he wound up with a team-high 17 points and 11 rebounds.

This collection of athletes and culture of toughness did not happen overnight. Even during the darker days of Marshall’s tenure, he was slowly building his foundation. In his first season, he had a freshman named J.T. Durley who started zero times and averaged seven points a game. Four years later, he was one of the better post players in the league. He also had a kid named Graham Hatch who hardly ever played. Four years later, he turned into a fierce and fearless glue guy. The list of players Marshall has developed could go on forever. Garrett Stutz was once a gangly freshman with “project” written all over him. Last year, he graduated as a first team all-MVC center.

This is what Marshall does. He develops. He teaches. He makes players tough. It took a few losing seasons in the Valley and a few NIT appearances, but he’s finally created what he had at Winthrop. “They can literally just walk down the floor and pound it inside,” Lusk said. This will continue past this season, by the way. Williams will graduate, but Marshall’s new crop of players will embody the same mentality. And you want to know the worst part? This guy’s constantly turning down offers to leave for power conference schools. At this pace, Wichita State might be body-slamming people to the floor and dominating rebound margins for decades.

LET'S GO SHOCKERS!

Shockers are on FIRE! 73-39 over the Bradley Braves. Second half was nothing short of absolute domination!

We are pretty good

No bad not bad at all.

Shox in the top 15 now!!!! 15th in the AP and 14th in the coaches

Very nice!

Big week this week tho, we got Indiana State at home tomorrow night (who has beat Miami and ole Miss) and then at UNI, who is playing alot better than when we pounded them earlier this year.

One game at a time....

Andy Katz ask Bill Self the question

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...ege-basketball

Why doesn't Kansas play Wichita State?

"Kansas hasn't played Wichita State for years, way before I was the coach at Kansas. … Iowa plays Northern Iowa because the state legislature says you have to. If someone were to come and say something that it's law, then we would have to. But you schedule to benefit your own school, not to benefit others. You have to benefit your own school. I want to play games that benefit us, and, from a financial standpoint, it's hard to play games away from Allen Fieldhouse since that's our main source of budget every year.''

Bill Self is a smart man, there's no way he's dumb enough to really think that Iowa legislature dictates that the Iowa schools play. What an awful answer and a blatant lie.

It hasnt been that way for past decade

This is why I will never be a true KU fan outside of being proud they are from Kansas. What's wrong with building up all the Kansas teams?

This is why a large majority of KU fans I have personally encountered are arrogant jerks. That's fine go your own way.

OUCH! This one hurt! No offense, sloppy defense initially. Gotta shake this one off and get back on our game. It's a long way to March...we can do this! GO SHOX!

uggh tough night last night, I guess you shouldn't expect to win if you shoot 27%. They will be fine tho. Just cant let them affect them, gotta put this one in the books and focus on UNI this saturday

Heres a excellent interview with Coach Marshall with 810 on the Border Patrol

http://www.stationcaster.com/player_...=374&f=1033131

Love this quote
"I'm not saying I will retire here, but I very well could retire here."

Ron Baker is walking boot and crutches free!!! Hopefully we can see him back on the court in a couple of weeks

http://www.kansas.com/2013/01/31/265...-crutches.html

I'm starting to think WE were overrated. Ugh. We are imploding. Blow a 17 point lead against the Ugly Dogs and we're just going full reerun.

Brutal.

Weren't overrated at all, that team was playing amazing basketball. The current team is merely a shell of what they were. I have honestly no idea what happened.

That sound? Tournament bubble crashing. Win MVC tourney or no NCAA.

I just want to win a game. I want to get the team we had back. And I want to ring the neck of the KS Senator who thought it would be cute to offer up a bill forcing KU to play Wichita State. The KU talk among Shocker fans needs to stop, Period. We have no business complaining about KU when we cannot maintain a 20 lead on a 1-10 team.

I wouldnt call that far yet, but this shit is downright embarssing. I got alot emotions going through, So i better not say what i really wanna say

Wichita state lost tonight?

I think im officially done with Malcolm and his careless turnover and his bad shots. I think we need to start reigns over to Van Vleet, our offense is so much better when he is in the game.

Nice to get back on track last night with a 79-50 win over Missouri state. And with Creighton loss to ill st, we have a 3 way tie between us, Creighton, and ind st. Its gonna be a interesting finish in the last month of the season

I guess going forward I cannot listen to the games on the net. I completely ignored the game (except for ESPN app updates) and they won.

Back on top where we belong!!!! After a 71-56 win over drake, Fred Van Vleet easily had his best game of the season with 17 points 9 assist and 5 rebounds. Then the Shocks have gotten help as Missouri St beat Ind st. and UNI beat Creighton. So as it stands we are 1 game up with 4 to play. We got a tough road swing on Sunday and Tues, as we play at Ill St and Ind St. I think if somehow we sweep this trip, we are going to be looking for for back to back championship.

I like this team with VanVleet at the point and Armstead at the two.

Have Demetric come off the bench.

I agree, VanVleet is so dam smart and patient for a freshmen and his handles our off the charts. BTW I hope Demetric is ok.

I agree, he's pretty smooth and his shooting has tremendously improved.

He's going to be pretty special throughout his four years.

Big game tonight at Ill st on ESPNU. Ill st is prolly the hottest team in the valley as they are 8-1 in their last 9 games, so we need to play our best to win this one and to keep a 1 game lead over Creighton.

all I gotta say is: WHAT A WIN!!!!!!

I was sure that this was going to be a loss, then Carmichael had that lovely Jackie Chan move! That should have been a flagrant 2 foul. Things just fell into place after that. Nice win. Now I need to update my kolonopin script.

Heck of a win, Early came through when he had to.

That game was sick. I thought it was over then we had karate kid doing his thing and then we won woot!

I bet Jackie Carmichael is really kicking himself right now

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Shox finish the sweep of the road trip with a 66-62 win over Indiana State and now are 1 win away from back to back Valley Championships. Would be the first time thats happened since the Dave Stallworth days which is 48 years ago. Now lets finish this!!!!

OH YEAH BABY!! GO SHOX!

Today is Bracketbuster Saturday. Shox are home against Detroit, who should be a interesting matchup its strength against strength, as Detroit as one of the nation top offense which score 79 ppg, and we have one of the nation top defenses and only allow 59 ppg. This one is gonna be on ESPN 2 at 3 o'clock. We need to keep this train going!!!

I think the Shox gas tank is fueling back up. Despite a few missteps and a sluggish start they put the metal down and throttled Detroit pretty well. I see the Creighton McDermotts lost their bracketbuster against St. Marys. I caught a good portion of that game waiting in line at OK Joes last night. They have no defense whatsoever. I maintain this comment: they are a huge, overrated bust. Not sure who Dougies dad is paying off for the press they get but the proofs not on the court.

Well two disappointing losses in a row. Hats off to the Jays, they definitely came to play and played well. They hit everything, even a prayer shot that would have missed any other time. Little Dougie is a good player and I forsee him and Echenique doing well in the NBA. Shockers played well, they didn't quit but just didn't have enough to keep up with the Jays. Congrats on the regular season title and we'll see you in St. Louis!

Archmadness starts tonight, as we play Missouri state, im here in st louis, hoping we can finally win this tournament. Its our time!!! Go Shox!!!!

Shocks came through with a win today! Not a good day for Mizzou, KU or KState.

Let the March madness commence!

Shox v Creighton III. Bring it home Shockers.