Opening Tip // Winners of five straight games by an average of 36.4 points, Wichita State (5-0) gets its first major test against No. 10 Louisville (4-0), Thursday afternoon in the Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals. The winner advances to Friday's championship game at 3:30 pm ET (2:30 CT) to face either No. 20 Baylor or No. 24 Michigan State. The losers will take part in the third-place game at 1 p.m. ET (Noon CT).
 

BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS

10/10 Louisville (4-0, 0-0 ACC)   rv/rv Wichita State (5-0, 0-0 MVC)

Thursday, Nov. 24

1:30 P.M. CT

Paradise Island, Bahamas

Imperial Arena

Bracket

Tournament Central

Game Notes: WSU | Louisville

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SERIES HISTORY

Overall: Louisville leads 20-5

At Neutral Site: Louisville leads 1-0

Last Meeting: Apr. 6, 2013; Final Four in Atlanta, Ga. (UofL 72-68)

On Air // The game will air nationally on ESPN with Dave O'Brien and Dan Dakich on the call. Streaming is also available for ESPN subscribers at WatchESPN.com or on the ESPN App... Mike Kennedy and Bob Hull will call the action on Shocker Radio over KEYN 103.7 FM in Wichita and online at GoShockers.com/Listen.

Notable // WSU has trailed for just 51 total seconds through its first five contests... The Shockers now have 12 double-digit scoring runs on the season... WSU has scored 80+ in all five games. It's the first since the 1984-85 season that a Shocker team has done it in five-straight (that group holds the school record with 12-straight)... The Shockers' .827 winning percentage over the last seven seasons is the best in Division I college basketball... The Shockers and Cardinals rank fourth and fifth respectively in scoring defense over the last five seasons at 59.2 and 60.0...  
 
WICHITA STATE vs. Louisville           
Series: Louisville leads 20-5 (1-0 on neutral courts)
Last Meeting: 2013 Final Four (72-68, Louisville)
 
Series Notes: A rematch of the 2013 National Semifinal battle in Atlanta, when Louisville battled back from a 12-point deficit with just over 13 minutes to keep preserve its national title hopes... WSU and Louisville battled regularly from 1965-75 when the Cardinals were members of the Missouri Valley Conference. 
 
WSU vs. Ranked Teams // WSU has won four of its last six against AP nationally-ranked teams and is 12-12 in nine previous seasons under Gregg Marshall... The Shockers are 4-4 against AP Top-10 teams under Marshall, with seven of those encounters coming in the NCAA Tournament. The exception was a 74-60 win over No. 10 UNI in the 2014-15 regular season finale...

WSU in Exempt Tournaments // The Shockers have played well on the tournament circuit under Marshall, winning the 2012 Cancun Challenge (Mexico) and the 2013 CBE Classic (Kansas City, Mo.). In 2014, the Shockers claimed a runner-up finish in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Diamond Head Classic. The only recent exception came a year ago when a banged up Shocker team limped into the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando without point guard Fred VanVleet and lost three-consecutive games to USC, Alabama and Iowa.
 
2017 Tournament Scene // Wichita State has signed on to participate in the 2017 Maui Jim Maui Invitational in Hawaii, alongside California, LSU, Marquette, Michigan, Notre Dame, VCU and host Chaminade, Nov. 20-22, 2017. The Shockers finished 2-1 at the 2010 Maui Invitational,  collecting wins over Chaminade and Virginia after a heart-breaking quarterfinal loss to eventual national champion UConn.         
 
Lindsted Links // Second-year WSU assistant Kyle Lindsted built Sunrise Christian Academy into a national power by finding and fostering top international talent. He considers the Bahamas a second home… Lindsted brought 2016 NCAA Player of the Year, Buddy Hield (from Freeport, Bahamas) to the U.S. as a high school junior and coached him for two seasons… Another Lindsted success story from the Bahamas is Michigan State's Lourawls "Tum Tum" Nairn who played three seasons for Lindsted at Sunrise… St. John's forward Marvin Clark spent two years at Sunrise. He and Nairn were teammates on Michigan State's 2015 Final Four team before Clark landed at St. John's.
 
 WSU's roster includes five players who attended Sunrise for high school or prep school (Zach Brown, C.J. Keyser, Rauno Nurger, Brett Barney and Eric Hamilton).
 
Other Bahama Ties // As a freshman, WSU's Conner Frankamp helped Kansas to a third-place finish at the 2013 Battle 4 Atlantis. Frankamp appeared in all three games, scoring four points in KU's quarterfinal win over Wake Forest… WSU's 2013-14 team that went unbeaten in the regular season included Bahamian Kadeem Coleby in its core rotation. Originally from Nassau,  the 6-foot-9 Coleby played one season for the Shockers after transferring from Louisiana Lafayette. He started 19 games as a senior with a team-high 45 blocks.