WICHITA, Kan.- Wichita State's 2007-08 men's basketball complete schedule features 17 home games, including LSU, Wyoming and UAB, and a trip to the Paradise Jam, where three 2007 NCAA teams are in the field, first-year Wichita State University head coach Gregg Marshall announced today. (.pdf below)

WSU has the chance to play a total of eight 2007 post-season tournament opponents with Valley-members and NCAA teams Southern Illinois and Creighton, as well as NIT qualifiers Missouri State and Bradley. The fourth 2007 postseason 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 the regular season at home against Arkansas Pine Bluff on Nov. 13, before heading to the Paradise Jam where they face Baylor (15-16) and its five returning starters. WSU will then face either Monmouth (12-18) or Notre Dame (24-8, NCAA). The Shockers' third game of the tournament will be against Charlotte (14-16), Georgia Tech (20-12, NCAA), Illinois-Chicago (14-18) or Winthrop (29-5, NCAA).

“This is a very attractive home schedule, and a very, very competitive overall schedule,” Marshall said. “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 (12-19) and Texas-Arlington (13-17). WSU then takes a trip to Kansas City to face UMKC before closing the calendar year with games against SEC-member LSU (17-15) and C-USA member UAB (15-16), 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 then opens the Valley schedule 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 Missouri Valley Conference Basketball Tournament are March 6-9, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo.

In addition, WSU will play host to Arkansas Tech (Nov. 3) and Pittsburg State (Nov. 8), in the two annual exhibition games.

Dates and times are subject to change. Television games will be announced at a later date.

Wichita State returns two starters in 2007-08 from a team that went 17-14 overall and 8-10 in the Missouri Valley Conference, including PJ Couisnard (11.8 pts, 5.8 reb.) and Matt Braeuer (6.1 pts./3.3 asts.)