Indiana State

Courtesy of Wichita State - WICHITA, Kan. -   Johnny Coy blasted a three run homerun over the centerfield wall in the sixth inning to lead the Shocker hitting attack to an 11-3 win in game two of the three game series with Indiana State. Wichita State (18-14) tallied 13 hits for the game, Coy was 2-for-5 with three RBI and Casey Gillaspie went 3-for-5 with three RBI for the Shockers. Indiana State (12-13) got the scoring started early in the first inning. A leadoff walk from Landon Curry led to an RBI single from Robby Ort to give Indians State a 1-0 lead.

Four Wichita State (13-6, 7-1) players scored in double figures and the Shockers used clutch free throw shooting in the final minutes to help them in a 74-63 win over the Indiana State Sycamores(10-10, 4-4) on Sunday afternoon. The Shockers were 8-for-8 from the free throw line in the closing minutes of the game. Jazimen Gordon and Haleigh Lankster each scored 16 points to lead WSU and Lankster finished with a double-double as she pulled down a game-high ten rebounds. Jessica Diamond added 15 points and the junior guard has now scored in doubles figures in eight-straight games, and 18 of WSU's 20 games this season.

The new stage at the Kansas State Fair is up and ready for shows. After the stage that collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, Kansas officials are taking extra safety steps to make sure this state fair is a safe as possible. KWCH Eyewitness News reporter Jim Grawe will have more on this story on the evening newscasts and on KWCH.com.

The Wichita State Shockers defeated the Indiana State Sycamores 3-0, Saturday in front of 2,169 fans at Charles Koch Arena.  The Shockers took the Missouri Valley Conference match with scores of 25-17, 25-15 and 25-16.  Wichita State improved to 10-3 overall and 3-1 in the Valley. Sophomore outside hitter Emily Adney and junior outside hitter Camri Zweisler led the Shockers with nine kills each.  Junior setter Mary Elizabeth Hooper led all players with 28 assists and junior libero Sarah Waldorf added 15 digs.

Cleanthony Early and Demetric Williams combined to hit 6 straight free throws in the final 41 seconds to help seal the Shockers 66-62 win over Indiana State. Early started shooting hot in the first half of this game, as he hit three straight 3-pointers to give the Shockers a 24-21 lead.  Neither team could pull away in this game with the Shockers 8 point lead late in the second half being the widest margin. Malcolm Armstead followed his excellent performance against Illinois State with another impressive game against the Sycamores.  Armstead started the second half with 5 quick points to push Wichita State out to a 30-27 lead.  He would hit the 18-point mark with just under 5 minutes remaining in the game to give Wichita State a 57-51 lead.  The story of the night was at the free throw line for Indiana State.  The Sycamores went just 15-23 from the charity stripe for the game, 11-17 in the second half.  The Sycamores did outrebound Wichita State though, 35-27, but they turned the ball over 15 times to Wichita State's 8. Wichita State moves to 23-5 overall and 12-4 in Valley play as the team returns home to face Detroit on Saturday in their Bracket Buster Matchup.  That game will be at 3 pm in Koch Arena.

J.T. Durley, Toure Murry and Ben Smith all earned honors today from the Missouri Valley Conference.  Durley, a senior forward for Wichita State, was the lone Shocker to make the first time All-Valley. Murry made the second team while Smith was named the Valley's 6th man of the year.  Durley placed third in the Player of the Year voting, behind Kwadzo Ahelegbe of Northern Iowa and the winner Kyle Weems of Missouri State. The all-bench and most-improved units have been selected by the league’s beat writers and will be announced Wednesday (March 2)

Charlie Lowell struck out four and gave up only one run as the Shockers hold on in the MVC Tournament, to beat Evansville, 2-1 and advance in Omaha. Kevin Hall hit an RBI double in the first inning and Johnny Coy matched with an RBI double in the fourth inning, giving the Shockers a 2-0 lead. Evansville cut the lead in half in the seventh with an RBI single but Cale Elam entered in the middle of the seventh to close out the Purple Aces for his fifth save of the season. #2 seed WSU will play #6 seed Indiana State who upset #3 seed Illinois State, 5-2 in the morning.

Wichita State's seniors hit their free-throws down the stretch as the Shockers were able to hang on and beat Missouri State 74-67. The Shockers (19-4, 10-2) were led by Ben Smith and Garrett Stutz with 21 and 25 points respectively.  Stutz also added 11 rebounds to finish with the double-double, his 7th double-double of the season. Wichita State was in danger of losing the program's first back-to-back Missouri Valley games in three years; during that season the Shockers first lost to Drake then Missouri State.

Wichita State's loss to Creighton on Saturday afternoon means the Bluejays are the #1 seed for the Missouri Valley Conference tournament and the Shockers will take over the #2 seed.  Both Creighton and Wichita State have byes for the first round and won't play until Friday. Northern Iowa is the third seed followed by Evansville at number 4 and Indiana State at #5.  Illinois State follows at #6, Missouri State is #7 and Bradley is #8.  Drake and Southern Illinois are numbers 9 and 10 respectively.

Do you know how you can tell the Shockers are playing well?  At Tuesday afternoon's press conference Coach Marshall was actually joking about his team being out-rebounded against Indiana State. "I'm gonna beat the heck out of them today in practice because in 18 games they've been outrebounded ONE time, and they just were too soft against Indiana State.  We're gonna get some helmets out and some baseball bats and we're gonna go after them pretty good," said Marshall.  After a long pause he added, 'I'm just kidding.' Of course he was kidding because like coach said his team is extremely productive on the glasss this season.  They are out-rebounding their opponents by an average of almost 8 per game.  Right now Wichita State is undefeated on the road in the Valley and are 6-1 overall in conference play.  Northern Iowa is 3-4 overall in the conference but they were just three points away from taking down Creighton in Omaha.  The Panthers will also most likely be playing with a vengeful attitude after falling to Bradley in Peoria this past Sunday; that was Bradley's first conference win this season and the Braves beat the Panthers by double-digits.