Wichita State claws back into Missouri Valley lead by beating Indiana State
Wichita State ended a long Saturday by getting back to first place in the Missouri Valley Conference.
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Wichita State ended a long Saturday by getting back to first place in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Jon Fenwick went to Wichita State in the 1990s, a tough era for basketball fans. Yet he remembers getting to games early to grab a front-row student seat to watch those teams play.
There is a good chance that Wichita State junior Tanya Friesen will be standing on the podium at the Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championships at the end of this month.
Creighton edged the Wichita State women’s team 61-59 on Thursday night in Omaha.
With three weeks remaining before the Missouri Valley Conference indoor championships, Wichita State coach Steve Rainbolt is ready to measure his track and field team.
Wichita State beat reporter Paul Suellentrop conducted a live chat on Thursday afternoon. Read the transcript here.
It took the usual ingredients for Wichita State to get its road karma going again. A lot of Garrett Stutz. A three-point shooter got hot. A long stretch of good defense and rebounding.
The Wichita State women’s basketball team is not ready to accept anything from its 8-1 start to Missouri Valley Conference season.
What Valley team has the most at stake in February? We will assume Creighton and Wichita State continue on their current paths and both are solidly in the NCAA Tournament come March.
Wichita State is picked to finish third in the Missouri Valley Conference baseball race, according to a poll of coaches released Wednesday.
Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall wishes his team converted one or two more plays in Saturdays triple-overtime loss at Drake. So does Missouri State coach Paul Lusk.
Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall didn’t love traveling to Flagstaff, Ariz., or Cleveland in games connected with the BracketBusters series.
Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa will be the featured speaker at Wichita States First Pitch Banquet on Feb. 24.
Haleigh Lankster is genuinely disappointed the Wichita State women’s basketball team can no longer could go undefeated in the Missouri Valley Conference. She, like the rest of the Shockers, doesn’t care that WSU has never won a conference championship.
College basketball players check NCAA Tournament predictions religously on the Internet. For golfers, the go-to Web sites are golfstat.com and golfweek.com.
There was a lot of positive energy built up during the Wichita State womens basketball teams 10-game winning streak, which came to a halt in Fridays loss to Illinois State.
The road finally caught up to Wichita State. Fouls. Hot shooting by the home team. Missed free throws. Fatigue. Bad bounces. It happens.
Sometimes winning can create the illusion of improvement.
Many teams start a basketball season with a goal to play fast and score big. Most of them settle for something less, giving in to the reality that it is difficult for players to speed up to score while not letting up on defense.
Isn’t that how it goes sometimes?