If this Final Four Wichita State basketball team plays angry — and it’s as good an explanation as any for this crazy ride — then the Shocker teams circa 1991-2001 were mellow surfer dudes just chilling out.
Kelly Pete and Jamie Thompson went to Wichita East together and helped the Blue Aces win a state basketball championship in 1962.
Wichita State basketball fans are feeling good about life. Rightly so, their basketball team is doing something it hasn’t done in 48 years, heading off to a Final Four, and who knows when the Shockers will do it again.
Wichita State is going to the Final Four and it’s OK if you just want to read those eight words over and over again without getting to the rest of this column.
Ohio State has two McDonald’s All-Americans on its team. Wichita State has guys who like Quarter Pounders.
Dare I say, Wichita State brought Showtime back to LA?
It’s not the big, fat numbers that Wichita State senior forward Carl Hall notices in his box-score line. It’s the ones that need something to eat.
That team Wichita State had in 2011-12 was loaded, wasn’t it?
Ben McLemore, you’re confusing me.
Live from Los Angeles, Bob Lutz takes your Sweet 16 questions.
Wichita State is leaving a trail of tears in the NCAA Tournament, headed to the Sweet 16 with a team that’s nothing close to sweet.
SALT LAKE CITY Gregg Marshall has a chance Saturday night to add a 10-carat diamond to a gold-studded career as a basketball coach that started in 1985.
Tray Woodall was better known as Travon the last time he went up against Wichita State, in the 2009 CBE Classic inside Kansas City’s Sprint Center. He tore the Shockers up with 19 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals as Pittsburgh swatted WSU 68-55.
Who is Cleanthony Early?
Who doesn’t fill out a bracket?
ARLINGTON, Texas — I know, until the last grain of sand is left in the hourglass, Kansas State football fans believe the combination of Coach Bill Snyder and quarterback Collin Klein will pull the Wildcats through.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Everybody I know is going back and forth on this Cotton Bowl matchup between Kansas State and Arkansas.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Can we be honest here, K-Staters? Raise your right hands and tell me you had no doubts about Bill Snyder being able to work his second "Miracle in Manhattan" as the Wildcats' football coach.
IRVING, Texas — There are days when Chris Harper, Kansas State's leading receiver, looks at his statistics and wonders what they might look like in another offensive system, with a pass-first quarterback.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Whatever happened to "Can't Miss" Bryce Brown? That was never his official nickname, but it could have been. Nobody has ever dominated City League football as a running back the way Brown did for East from 2005-08. He rushed for 7,209 yards and if that's not an untouchable record, then I can't wait to watch the player who touches it.
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