17-14 overall and 8-10 in the Missouri Valley Conference: Matt Braeuer
and PJ Couisnard, above.
Wichita State's men's basketball 2007-08 schedule features 17 home games and a trip to the Paradise Jam, where three 2007 NCAA Tournament teams are in the field.
WSU has the chance to play eight 2007 post-season foes, including NCAA Tournament and Valley-member teams Southern Illinois and Creighton, plus NIT qualifiers Missouri State and Bradley.
The fourth 2007 post-season team on the non-conference schedule is Appalachian State, which played in the 2007 NIT after winning the Southern Conference regular-season, in the return trip of the 2007 O’Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters game.
The Shockers open regular season play Nov. 13 at home against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, before heading to the Paradise Jam, where they first face Baylor.
WSU will then take on either Monmouth or Notre Dame. The Shockers’ third game of the tournament will be against Charlotte, Georgia Tech, Illinois-Chicago or Winthrop.
“This is a very attractive home schedule, and a very, very competitive overall schedule,” first-year coach Gregg Marshall reports. “As a head coach, I’ve never had this many home games, and with UAB, Wyoming and LSU coming here it is very attractive for Shocker fans. We are also continuing the regional series by traveling to UMKC, and with the two away games associated with the BracketBusters series, and the trip to the Virgin Islands, it becomes a great blend of home and away games.”
WSU returns home to play host to Wyoming before taking the trip to Boone, N.C., to play Appalachian State. The Shockers then open December with home games against Maryland Baltimore County and Texas-Arlington. WSU then takes a trip to Kansas City to face UMKC before closing the calendar year with games against LSU and UAB, which is under the direction of second-year head coach Mike Davis, who has secured the No. 9-rated recruiting class in the country.
WSU opens the Valley schedule on Dec. 29 against Drake before playing host to Illinois State. Following the two-game homestand, WSU plays four of five on the road before again playing a three-game homestand.
The final non-conference game of the regular season is the 2008 O’Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters game, which will be played Feb. 22, 23 or 24, on the road with a place, time and opponent to be announced.
Dates for the State Farm MVC Basketball Tournament are March 6-9 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
— WSU Sports Information
