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OPENING TIPS
*Wichita State (7-2) plays host to Saint Louis (2-5) at 7 p.m. Tuesday night on Cox Channel Extra (Cox HD 2122).
*The Shockers are coming off back-to-back wins last week over Southern Nazarene (87-57) and at Colorado State (82-67). SLU has dropped four-straight and is playing its first true road game of the season.
 

SHOCKERS vs. BILLIKENS

-/rv Wichita State (7-2, 0-0 MVC)   Saint Louis (2-5, 0-0 A-10)

Tuesday, Dec. 6

7:00 P.M. CT

Wichita, Kan.

Charles Koch Arena

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Game Notes: WSU | SLU

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Shane Dennis & Bob Hull

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SERIES HISTORY

Shockers vs. SLU: SLU leads 41-22

In Wichita: SLU leads 17-14

Last Meeting: Dec. 5, 2015 (WSU 68-53)

AT A GLANCE

Stat Comparison SLU WSU Points/Game 66.0 83.1 Opp. Points/Game 76.6 59.6 Field Goal % .406 .467 3-PT Field Goal % .312 .388 Free Throw % .635 .707 Rebound Margin -1.6 +9.5 Turnover Margin -2.9 +5.0 Assist-TO Ratio 0.8 1.4 Blocks/Game 3.9 2.9

TV REMINDER
*Due to programming conflicts, Tuesday night's game moves up the dial to Cox Channel Extra (Cox HD 2122). Shane Dennis and Bob Hull have the call. All remaining Cox games this season will return to Cox Channel Kansas (Cox HD 2022).
 
SHOCKER RADIO
*Catch every game, home and away, on FM 103.7 KEYN and online at goshockers.com/listen. The home pairing of Mike Kennedy (pbp) and Dave Dahl (analyst) is one of the nation's longest running tandems, now in its 36th year.
*Kennedy (37th season overall, 1,182nd consecutive game) also hosts the Gregg Marshall Coaches Show on Monday nights from 6-7 p.m. from AJ's Sports Bar & Grill at the corner of 13th & Greenwich Road. Fans can tune in on 1330 KNSS or 98.7 FM.
 
ANOTHER HOME RUN
*The Shockers are 5-0 at Charles Koch Arena, and all five wins have come by at least 27 points.
*WSU has outrebounded home opponents this season by an average of 15.4. The team has been outrebounded on its home court just 14 times in 10 seasons under Marshall (154 games).
*WSU is 51-1 at home over the past four seasons. The lone loss came against Northern Iowa on Feb. 13, 2016.
*The Shockers' 41-game non-conference home winning streak ranks second nationally behind Duke.
 
THREEMENDOUS START
*True freshman Austin Reaves has connected on 10-of-19 three-point attempts and leads the MVC in three-point percentage heading into Tuesday night's game (.526). Fellow guard Daishon Smith (.476) is fifth on the same list.
*WSU hasn't led the MVC in three-point percentage as a team in over 20 years but finds itself with the league's top long-distance mark .388. (compared to .324 a season ago).
*Last year, Fred VanVleet's .381 three-point percentage was the highest among Shocker regulars, but he would rank a distant seventh on this year's team. Six different players are shooting 40% or better from long range.
*WSU's 15-for-24 performance against Maryland Eastern Shore on Nov. 20 tied the school record.
 
GREAT BALANCING ACT
*Through nine games, eight different Shockers have taken a turn as leading scorer, most recently Zach Brown, who scored 16 points in the win at Colorado State.
*A total of 10 Shockers are logging at least 12 minutes per game.
* Markis McDuffie played a career-high 33 minutes at Colorado State and now leads the team in total court time this season (at just 22.6 minutes per contest!). 
 
NUMBERS BY PAINT
*WSU has outscored all nine of its opponents this year in the paint (32.7 to 18.2).
*Shocker bigs Morris, Nurger, Willis and Kelly are shooting a combined 51.1% from the field (52.8% from inside the arc).
 
MIND THE GAP
*The Shockers' are outscoring opponents by 23.6 points per game -- sixth nationally and the highest among teams from outside the "power five" conference.
 
TOP SCORING MARGINS (NCAA Division I)

1. West Virginia +30.3
2. Notre Dame +26.5
3. Kentucky +26.1
4. North Carolina +25.2
5. Utah +24.5
6. Wichita State +23.6
7. Houston +23.0
8. Virginia +22.8
9. Duke +22.4
10. UCLA +22.0

           
A "BROWNOUT" AT COLORADO STATE
Zach Brown's streak of 40 consecutive starts ended after a rough three-game stretch at the Battle 4 Atlantis that saw him score just 10 points on 4-of-15 shooting (1-for-8 at the foul line). In two games off the bench last week, he bounced back to average 14.5 points and hit 9-of-14 shots. On Saturday 7,000 CSU fans dressed in white shirts as part of a special "white out" promotion, but Brown sent them home disappointed, scoring nine of his team-high 16 points in the final eight minutes to help key a Shocker run.
 
NEW JOB FOR MARSHALL?
Gregg Marshall has led the Shockers to more wins than any other coach and taken the team to a Final Four. How popular is Marshall in Wichita? A handful of local citizens are ready to see how those talents apply to areas like health care and social security. According to official numbers from the Sedgwick County election office, released to the Wichita Eagle, Marshall earned at least 10 write-in votes during the recent election, including two votes for the oval office.
 
ALL-TIME vs. SAINT LOUIS
*This is SLU's 21st appearance at the Roundhouse (originally constructed in 1955) but its first since the 1974-75 season. The Billikens are 9-11 all-time in this building and 17-14 in the city of Wichita.
*SLU leads the all-time series between the two former MVC rivals, 41-22, thanks to a dominant stretch in the 1940s and 50s. The Billikens won 27 of the first 31 from 1936-60, including 15-of-16 on their home floor.
*The Shockers have won four straight in the series. A win would match their longest streak against the Billikens, achieved between 1964-66.
 
CURRENT FOUR-GAME SERIES
This is the last installment of a four-game contract between the two programs. WSU is looking for a clean sweep after winning twice in St. Louis (2013 and 2015) and once in Wichita (2014):
 
Dec. 1, 2013 -- St. Louis, Mo./ Chaifetz Arena -- #12 WSU, 70-65
The Billikens gave WSU one of its toughest tests during the Shockers' undefeated run in 2013-14, and both teams spent time in the top-10 in the national polls that year. SLU, however, has been in rebuilding mode in the two years since. 
 
Dec. 6, 2014 -- Wichita / INTRUST Bank Arena -- WSU, 81-52
Two unlikely heroes led the charge with career-high performances. Current junior (then a freshman) Rauno Nurger went 5-of-9 and nailed a pair of three-pointers on his way to 15 points, and the recently departed Evan Wessel added 15 of his own... The Shockers took a 45-25 halftime lead after out-rebounding the Billikens 19-5 in the first half.
 
Dec. 5, 2015 -- St. Louis, Mo. / Chaifetz Arena -- WSU, 68-53
WSU limped into St. Louis at 2-4, but the return of Fred VanVleet from a hamstring injury sparked a 15-point and the Shockers went on to win 15 of their next 16 games... VanVleet battled first half foul trouble, and Marshall turned to walk-on John Robert Simon, who set career-highs for minutes played (16) and assists (4)... Two other bright spots were Zach Brown, who shared the team lead with 14 points, and Shaquille Morris (12 points, six rebounds in 19 minutes)... WSU forced 18 turnovers and committed just nine of its own.
 
FORD FOCUS 
*New head coach Travis Ford is coming off of an eight-year run at Oklahoma State that included six NCAA Tournament appearances.
*WSU played Ford-coached OSU in last years closed-door scrimmage.
*Gregg Marshall is also familiar with Ford from his WInthrop days when he swept  both games of a two-year a home-and-home series from Ford's Eastern Kentucky team.
 
ON GUARD vs. THE OLD GUARD
*WSU is 4-1 against Saint Louis since its exit from MVC in 1974, and is 49-35 all-time in non-conference games against former (modern era) Valley schools.
*That includes a 8-2 record over the last three seasons vs. Detroit (1-0), Memphis (1-0), SLU (2-0), Louisville (0-1), NM State (2-0) and Tulsa (2-1). In addition to SLU on Tuesday night, the Shockers will also face Oklahoma State this week.
 
IT STARTS WITH STOPS
*The Shockers rank 14^th nationally in scoring defense (59.6) and 12^th in field goal defense (36.2%)
*WSU has finished even or better in the turnover column in all nine games and in 14-straight dating back to last March.
*Over the last three seasons, they've committed more turnovers than their opponent just eight times (spanning 79 games).
 
BENCH RULING
*WSU enters the week as the national leader in bench scoring (49.7 per game from non-starters), edging out the Citadel (47.1), West Virginia (43.0), Savannah State (42.7) and upcoming opponent Oklahoma State (40.1).
*A Shocker reserve has led or shared the scoring lead in 8 of the first 9 contests, and bench players have accounted for just under 60% of the team's overall output (49.7 out of 83.1).
*WSU's unofficial season record for bench scoring is 31.7 point per game by its 2011 NIT Championship squad -- a group that has been frequently compared to the current Shocker squad for its remarkable scoring balance and bench depth.
*Though it will be tough to maintain, the Shockers' current pace (49.7) would be the highest total for an NCAA team in the last 20 years. Northwestern State (47.4 in 2012-13), Texas State (42.8 in 2007-08), VMI (40.8 in 2009-10) and Belmont (40.3 in 2010-11) are the only teams to finish north of 40.0.
*Among MVC schools, only four teams in the past 20 years have finished a season with an average of more than 30.0 points from its non-starters. Creighton's 36.9 points in 2007-08 is the standard.
 
LOUD NOISES
*Charles Koch Arena has played host to 186-consecutive regular season crowds of 10,000+, dating back to December of 2004.
*The Shockers' 45-game campus sellout streak ended on Nov. 29 when the ticket office reported 70 unsold general admission seats. That run began on Senior Day 2013 and lasted for nearly three-and-half years.
*For the fourth-consecutive year, WSU sold its entire allotment of season tickets (just over 9,000 total).
*The moral support has gone a long way. WSU is 106-9 (.922) over its last eight seasons at "The Roundhouse" and 112-9 (.926) overall in Wichita since the start of the 2010-11 campaign.
*WSU is 59-1 at home in regular season, non-conference games since November of 2008, with the only loss coming to a Final Four bound VCU in a 2011 Bracket Busters matchup.
*Including postseason NIT games, the Shockers have won 41 non-conference home games in a row (the nation's second-longest streak behind Duke).
 
UP AHEAD:
*Next Saturday, WSU travels Oklahoma City to face Oklahoma at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Game time is 3 pm CT on ESPN2. The Sooners will make a return trip to Wichita in 2017-18.
*As of Thursday, only a few dozen tickets remained for WSU's Dec. 17 matchup with Oklahoma State at Wichita's 15,000-seat INTRUST Bank Arena. The 6 pm tip will air exclusively on ESPN3.