Shocks

Wichita State (24-8) plays host to Nebraska (19-12) at 6 pm., Wed., March 16, in the Shockers' 12th overall NIT appearance. The game is set to be televised on ESPN2. Nebraska, a Big XII Conference member, finished 7-9 in conference play tied for seventh. Having one common opponent, the Huskers defeated Missouri Valley Conference-member Creighton, 59-54, Dec. 5, in Lincoln. Season ticket holders have until 11:00am Monday to reserve their tickets. Other fans may purchase tickets starting at 1:00pm Monday by calling the WSU ticket office.

Wichita State defeated the under-19 Flamengo Sports Club, 80-39 on Friday night in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil for their first win in their 10-day South American trip. Head Coach Gregg Marshall sat his six veteran players in an effort to give his newcomers extensive game experience. The Shockers were lead by the 14 points of incoming Freshman Ede Egharvba, fellow rookie Evan Wessel of Heights added 11.   Additional scoring: Josh Walker - 10 points Randall Vautravers - 6 points Ehimen Orukpe - 7 points Carl Hall - 9 points Ron Baker - 9 points Tekele Cotton - 4 points Adam Hasty - 6 points Jake White - 4 points   WSU will play their fourth of what's expected to be be five games on the trip, tomorrow morning against the Tijuca Sports Club at 11 a.m. Brazil time.   

For the first time in 43 years the Wichita State baseball team suffered a 3-game sweep at home.  The Shockers lost 11-3 to Pittsburgh on Sunday, completing the sweep for the Panthers. Tobin Mateychick took a beating in the first inning.  He lasted for just one out and gave up 2 hits and 6 earned runs, facing just 7 batters.  The Shockers' offense didn't fare much better, scoring just 3 runs on 5 hits.  Wichita State plays its first road game this coming Tuesday against Oral Roberts.

Wichita State junior Camri Zwiesler and sophomore Emily Adney paced the Shockers with 13 kills each in a 3-0 sweep against SMU Tuesday night at Charles Koch Arena. WSU won, 25-15, 25-18 and 25-19. The Shockers improved to 7-2 on the season in front of a home crowd of 2,203, winning their fourth match in a row. Wichita State junior Mary Elizabeth Hooper led all players with 35 assists. Junior Sarah Waldorf, the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player-of-the-Week, paced all players with 15 digs.

The Wichita State baseball team fell, 7-2, in the second game of a three-game set to the Missouri State Bears on Saturday afternoon at Eck Stadium. Tobin Mateychick took his first loss of the season for the Shockers, pitching 3.1 innings, allowing five runs on five hits, and striking out one. Dayne Parker went 1-for-4 at the plate with an RBI. The Shockers got the first run of the game on a groundout by Casey Gillaspie that scored Don Lambert. In the next at-bat, Dayne Parker hit a single to right field to score Johnny Coy and put the Shocks up 2-0 after the first inning.

You've seen WU Shock in all shapes and sizes. Big and small, painted on the floor of Devlin Court at Koch Arena or stuck across anything a Shocker sticker can stick to. But his best form is on the court for a Shocker basketball game, dancing around to the cheers of the fans from all over Wichita. But exactly who is WU Shock? We aimed to find out. Click here for photos of Wu Shock We found the identity of the WU Shock but he wanted to remain anonymous. We will call him Felix and he has been the team's mascot for two seasons and by day, he's just a normal student.

Wichita State finished the regular-season with a 3-0 win over Bradley.  The Shockers (21-6, 14-4) won by scores of 25-10, 25-19 and 25-16. With the win, the Shockers clinched the No. 2 seed in next week's Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Emily Adney led the Shockers with nine kills while Mary Elizabeth Hooper had 28 assists and two service aces. Camri Zwiesler had eight kills, three aces and six digs for Wichita State. Megan Schmidt led the Braves with eight kills.

Wichita State (22-4, 13-2) now holds a two-game lead in the Missouri Valley conference as they dominated 17th ranked Creighton (21-5, 11-4) in Omaha to 89 to 68. Joe Ragland and Ben Smith each scored more than 20 points a piece for Wichita State as the Shockers shot nearly 60% from the field for the entire game.  The Shockers were also extremely effective from the free throw line shooting a perfect 17 of 17 from the charity stripe....

For the first time since 2003 the Wichita State Shocker women have come out of Terre Haute with a victory.  Today the Shockers defeated Indiana State 63-53.   Michaela Dapprich was on fire for Wichita State scoring 22 points on 8 of 13 shooting.  Alex Harden also finished in double-figures scoring for Wichita State with 16 points. Jody Adams got better production off of her bench than Indiana State did but overall the Shockers just shot better from three-point range than the Sycamores.

I've always subscribed to the notion that the only bad opinion - is no opinion. Unfortunately, that's the case with Wichita State Baseball. The Shockers dropped a 1-0 decision in eleven innings at Kansas on Tuesday and we didn't receive a single call about it yesterday on Sports Daily. Not one angry call complaining about a decision made during the game, not one angry call at a lack of execution, not one angry call about losing to KU. When indifference comes to typify your fan base - you've got problems - the Shockers have problems.

Kansas State knocked Wichita State starting pitcher Kris Gardner out of the game after just two-thirds of the first inning on their way to a 4-1 victory over the Shockers.  The win gives KState its first sweep of Wichita State since 2010. Gardner found himself in a jam early after a fielding error by Erik Harbutz helped put two runners on base in the top of the first.  Gardner got tagged for a solo home run by Jared King on a 2-0 count to give the Wildcats an early 3-0 lead.

"It's just a myriad of emotion," Wichita runner Matthew Brunette said.  "My phone has been blowing up all day with everybody calling me, making sure I'm not there. " Brunette didn't run in the Boston Marathon this year, but he did last year.  We found him at a local running store as news of the explosions was breaking. "It's so hard to believe, because it's such a happy event that the whole world looks forward to," Brunette said.  "To think that this kind of thing could happen is just really tough.

They call him the original "Wu. " Former Wichita state cheerleader Dave Johnson designed the first Wu Shock costume back in 1954, when the Shockers didn't have a mascot. These days the "Shocker" is becoming known around the world, which is what Johnson first intended. Click here to see photos of Shocker pride around Kansas Many would say Dave Johnson has the respect of Shockers all around the world. The 78-year-old came up Wichita State's first mascot costume, Wu Shock.

You've seen WU Shock in all shapes and sizes. Big and small, painted on the floor of Devlin Court at Koch Arena or stuck across anything a Shocker sticker can stick to. But his best form is on the court for a Shocker basketball game, dancing around to the cheers of the fans from all over Wichita. But exactly who is WU Shock? We aimed to find out. Click here for photos of Wu Shock We found the identity of the WU Shock but he wanted to remain anonymous. We will call him Felix and he has been the team's mascot for two seasons and by day, he's just a normal student.

The addage says, 'It's not how you start it's how you finish. " Problem was, the way K-State started their NCAA game against La Salle, it was hard to come back. K-State trailed by 18 points at halftime, put together a furious second half rally but ultimately fell to La Salle, 63-61. Wildcat's end their season at 27-8. "We knew how dangerous they were - you have to give them credit," Angel Rodridguez said after the game. "They won the game. " Rodgriguez took the final shot for K-State that would have tied the game and sent it to overtime.

Al Allala moved to a small town to get away from drugs and crime.  But just a few houses away in the tiny town of Burrton, Harvey County deputies confiscated 30 marijuana plants along with grow lights and other equipment. "We heard it on the radio and my mouth fell open!" Allala says. The sheriff's offce got a tip that pot was being grown in the house in the 100 block of West Market Street.  Officers say when they arrived there, knocked on the door and the door opened, they could immediately smell the marijuana plants.

It's really a simple concept. Win six games in a row, and you take home a National Championship. The brackets for the NCAA Tournament were released today, and the University of Kansas, Kansas State & Wichita State are all going to the Big Dance. For the third time in the past 6 years, the Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas State Wildcats will play their opening round games at the same site, the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Click here to print out your own bracket, or Click here to play March Mayhem (you could win a prize!

For the first time since 2003 the Wichita State Shocker women have come out of Terre Haute with a victory.  Today the Shockers defeated Indiana State 63-53.   Michaela Dapprich was on fire for Wichita State scoring 22 points on 8 of 13 shooting.  Alex Harden also finished in double-figures scoring for Wichita State with 16 points. Jody Adams got better production off of her bench than Indiana State did but overall the Shockers just shot better from three-point range than the Sycamores.