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WICHITA, Kan. – Three-time defending Missouri Valley Conference regular season champion Wichita State will dance for the fifth-straight year. The NCAA and television partner CBS released the full 68-team NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Bracket on Sunday evening, which includes the Shockers as one of 36 at-large selections to field.
 
WSU (24-8, 16-2 MVC) is an 11-seed in the South Region and will open play Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, at approximately 9:10 p.m. ET/8:10 p.m. CT against fellow 11-seed Vanderbilt. The winner advances to Round of 64 action in Providence, R.I. on Thursday. 
 
The Shockers are one of just nine teams that have won a game in each of the last three tournaments, reaching the Final Four in 2013, the Round of 32 in 2014 (when they earned the programs first-ever No. 1 seed), and the Sweet 16 in 2015. The Shockers' 7-3 tournament record over that span puts them among the top-six nationally, alongside Arizona (8-3), Wisconsin (9-3), Michigan State (9-3), Duke (9-2) and Louisville (11-2).
 
For the latest information and a behind-the-scenes look at all things Shockers throughout WSU's 2016 NCAA Tournament run, visit goshockers.com and follow @goshockers on social media.
 

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 Selection Sunday Notes:

*This is the Shockers' 13^th overall trip to the NCAA Tournament, where they're 15-13 all-time. Prior to their current run of five-straight bids (2012-16), they made back-to-back appearances on just two other occasions (1964, 65 and 1987, 88).

*WSU is just the fourth Missouri Valley Conference team to appear in five-straight NCAA Tournaments and the first since Southern Illinois, which matched the conference record with six-straight between 2002-07.

*The Shockers are one of three teams in Valley history to win a tourney game in three-consecutive years, joining Drake (1969-71) and Cincinnati (which appeared in five-straight Final Fours and won back-to-back national titles during a run from 1959-63).

*Gregg Marshall becomes just the 11th Division I head coach in history to take two-different schools to five-or-more NCAA Tournaments (seven at Winthrop and now five at Wichita State).