MAUI, Hawaii -- No. 6/8 Wichita State (2-0) plays three games in three days at 2018 Maui Jim Maui Invitational, beginning with Monday afternoon's 4 p.m. CT (Noon HT) tip against California (2-1) at the Lahaina Civic Center on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
 
The winner advances to Tuesday's 12:30 p.m. CT (8:30 a.m. HT) semifinal against the Marquette/VCU winner on ESPN. The losers square off at 3 p.m. CT (11 a.m. HT) on ESPN2.
 
Dan Shulman and Jay Bilas have the call on ESPN2.
 
The Voice of the Shockers -- Mike Kennedy -- describes the action on KEYN FM 103.7 and online at GoShockers.com/Listen.

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MAUI JIM MAUI INVITATIONAL

Maui, Hawaii

Lahaina Civic Center

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Game Notes: WSU | CAL

MATCHUP

#6/8 Wichita State (2-0) vs. Cal (2-1)

Monday, Nov. 20

4 P.M. CT

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THE STARTING FIVE:
 
STARTING FIVE:
 
1 ----- RETURN TO MAUI:  The Shockers are making their second appearance in this tournament. In 2010, they dropped a quarterfinal heartbreaker to eventual national champion UConn, 83-79, but bounced back to defeat Chaminade (79-58) and Virginia (70-58) for a fifth-place finish. Left off the NCAA Tournament bubble in March, that WSU team rolled to the 2011 NIT title with five wins by an average of 15 points... WSU has played in seven other Hawaiian events over the years, dating back to 1981, but has never won a title. Shocker teams are 9-10 all-time in Hawaii. A runner-up finish at the 2014 Diamond Head Classic is their best to date.
 
2 ----- GRAND OPENING: Three senior big men, Shaquille Morris (17.0 pts, 7.5 reb), Rauno Nurger (13.5 pts) and Darral WIllis Jr. (16.5 pts, 8.5 reb) have led the charge in WSU's 2-0 start... The Shockers have out-rebounded opponents by an average of 21 boards and outscored them 83-24 in the paint... A 109-57 win over UMKC in the opener was the most-lopsided in 11 seasons under Gregg Marshall (52 points)... WSU's 39-point halftime lead (62-23) in that game was the largest in the program's modern history... Last Monday, the Shockers enjoyed a 25-point halftime cushion against CAA preseason favorite, College of Charleston and coasted to an 81-63 victory... In the two wins, they've outscored opponents in the first half by a combined count of 109-45.
 
3 ----- MARSHALL MILESTONE:  Naismith Hall of Famer Ralph Miller coached 353 games for the Shockers from 1951-64. Monday's Maui quarterfinal will be Marshall's 354^th -- most in program history. Marshall (263-90 in his 11^th season) surpassed Miller as the school's all-time wins leader in February, 2015.
 
4 ----- ONE MORE THREE FOR HISTORY: Landry Shamet (13.5 pts) has connected on a three-pointer in 27-straight games – tied with former Shocker (and current Knick) Ron Baker for the school record. If Shamet hits at least one three against Cal in the quarterfinal, he will own the record outright. Teammate Conner Frankamp (10.5 pts, 6.0 assists) enters with his own 24-game streak.
 
5 ----- SHAQ FACTOR: With his next block, Morris (102 career blocks) will tie Shocker legend Xavier McDaniel (103; 1981-85) for fifth on WSU's all-time list. Morris needs just three more to match former LA Laker Gene Wiley (105 from 1959-62) for fourth-place.
 
THE SHOCKERS IN HAWAII:
*Wichita State is back in Hawaii for the first time since December, 2014 when it finished runner-up to George Washington at Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu. Four current Shockers logged time in that tournament.
*Rashard Kelly played a career-high 27 minutes in the DHC semifinal and had the game winning tip-in ahead of the buzzer in an OT win over host Hawaii.
*The Shockers have made seven previous trips to Maui – all for tournaments -- and are 9-10 all-time on the islands (4-2 under Marshall).
 
1981 Rainbow Classic -- Honolulu -- 1-2, 6^th
def. Cal St. Fullerton (70-67), lost to #20 NC State (48-60), lost to #6 San Francisco (74-84)
 
1986 Hawaii Loa Holiday Classic --Honolulu -- 1-1, 3^rd
lost to #7 Syracuse (69-83), def. Fresno Pacific (65-54)
 
1990 Rainbow Classic -- Honolulu -- 2-1, 3^rd
def. Tennessee (77-73), lost to Hawaii (73-89), def. Stetson (69-58)
 
1995 Big Island Invitational -- Hilo -- 1-2, 4^th
def. Utah State (63-61, ot), lost to Minnesota (55-64), lost to Oregon (64-74)
 
1998 Tipoff Classic -- Honolulu -- 0-2, 4^th
lost to Hawaii (51-73), lost to Rutgers (64-74)
 
2010 Maui Invitational -- Maui -- 2-1, 5^th
lost to UConn (79-83), def. Chaminade (79-58), def. Virginia (70-58)
 
2014 Diamond Head Classic -- Honolulu -- 2-1, 2^nd
def. Loyola Marymount (80-53), def. Hawaii (80-79 ot), lost to George Washington (54-60)
 
SHOCKERS IN REGULAR SEASON TOURNEYS:
*The Shockers are 20-14 in multi-team events (MTE's) under Gregg Marshall (13-14 on site) with championships in the 2012 Cancun Challenge (Mexico) and the 2013 CBE Classic (Kansas City).
*A Maui Jim Maui Invitational title would be Wichita State's first in an eight-team bracket since Dave Stallworth powered the Shockers to the 1963 All-College Classic crown (and later that year, to the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance).
*All-time Wichita State owns 16 titles in regular season events, with 10 of those coming on campus.
*From 1979-86, WSU ran a four-team tournament called the McDonald's Shocker Classic and won it five times. WSU revived the event from 1993-98 as the Cessna Classic and won it five more times in six years.
*Since WSU's quarterfinal loss to Uconn in the 2010 Maui Invitational, the Shockers have won five of their last six tournament openers.
 
ON CAL:
 The Golden Bears are making their third Maui appearance (1996, 2013).
 The Bears (21-13, 10-8 Pac 12 last year) were one of the last teams out on Selection Sunday 2017 and instead settled for an NIT bid.
 Wyking Jones begins his first year as head coach after two years as an assistant in the Cal program.
 Kingsley Okoroh's 74 blocks was a program record.
 Cal has reached eight of the last nine postseasons.
 
THE SERIES WITH CAL:
This will be just the second meeting between the two programs. The other came in December, 1975 when the Bears defeated the Shockers, 75-68, at the Lobo Invitational in Albuquerque. That WSU team went on to win the 1976 Missouri Valley Conference title and later took 14^th-ranked Michigan to the wire in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
 
OTHER SERIES RECORDS FROM THE MAUI FIELD: 
 
WSU vs. VCU: 2-2 -----
Three of the four matchups in the series came over stretch of 21 months...VCU used a Bracket Busters win at Charles Koch Arena in Feb. 2011 as a springboard into the NCAA Tournament field and an eventual trip to the Final Four...The following year, the 12th-seeded Rams bounced No. 5 WSU from the 2012 NCAA Tournament in a Round of 64 matchup... WSU played a Bracket Busters return game at VCU in November of 2012 and gained a measure of revenge with a 53-51 road victory... The only other meeting came in Wichita in the 1996 Cessna Classic. A night after VCU upset Billy Tubbs' TCU team in the semifinal, the Shockers hammered the Rams, 80-50 to claim the title.
 
WSU vs. Marquette: 3-4 -----
The teams have met seven times but this would be their first since 1978.
 
WSU vs. Chaminade: 2-0 -----
The Shockers downed the Swords, 79-58, in a 2010 consolation semifinal matchup behind 19 points from David Kyles... WSU also won a December, 1998 meeting in Wichita, 80-51. Jason Perez and Maurice Evans delivered 17-each.
 
WSU vs. Michigan: 3-3 -----
The teams haven't played since 1984... Michigan is 2-0 against the Shockers in postseason play, winning first round games in the 1976 NCAA Tournament and the 1984 NIT... The Shockers are 3-0 against the Wolverines in Wichita.
 
WSU vs. Notre Dame: 1-2 -----
A potential rematch from the 2015 NCAA Sweet 16.
 
WSU vs. LSU: 5-1 -----
WSU has five straight wins…WSU routed LSU last November in the Battle 4 Atlantis quarterfinals behind 15 points from Markis McDuffie, 12 points from Landry Shamet and a career-high seven assists from Conner Frankamp. The Shockers scored the first 11 points and led 46-19 at halftime... In the summer of 2006, with WSU coming off of a Sweet 16 appearance and LSU a trip to the Final Four, the teams agreed to a home-home-neutral series. The Shockers swept all three meetings... LSU's lone series victory came in the 1981 Elite Eight in New Orleans against a Shocker squad bookended by future NBA standouts Cliff Levingston and Antoine Carr.
 
RANDOM KNOWLEDGE:
*Senior Rauno Nurger celebrates his 24th birthday on Nov. 24. He's the oldest of the 17 Shockers on this year's roster, edging out redshirt senior Shaquille Morris, who turns 24 on Feb. 23.
*The Shockers will face three of this year's 23 first-time Division I head coaches, beginning with Wyking Jones. In December, Gregg Marshall will match wits with Mike Boynton (Oklahoma State) and Mike Balado (Arkansas State). ORU's Paul Mills (WSU's closed door scrimmage opponent) is an unofficial fourth.
 
SHOOTING STARS:
*Landry Shamet has made 63-of-128 attempts (.492) from three since the streak began on Dec. 17, 2015. Monday marked just the fourth time that he'd failed to connect on multiple attempts in a game.
*Frankamp is 58-of-117 from three during his own streak (.496) which began on New Years Day 2017. His 111 career three-pointers rank 19th on WSU's career list. He needs two more to catch Cleanthony Early (113) and four to match P.J. Couisnard (114) for 18th and 17th respectively. The senior is on pace to finish sixth all-time despite playing just 2 1/2 seasons.
 
BLOCK PARTY:
*Shaquille Morris blocked six shots in the first two games to move over the century mark for his career (102). He heads to Maui needing just one more to catch Xavier McDaniel for fifth on the all-time list. He's three blocks shy of Gene Wiley for fourth-place. Claudius Johnson's total (109) is the highest by a Shocker since 1985-86 when the block became an official NCAA stat.
 
MORE MORRIS:
*Shaquille Morris enters the week in fourth place on WSU's career field goal percentage list (293/535, .548). Nos. 1-3 are: Xavier McDaniel (.564), Antoine Carr (.557) and Carl Hall (.555). Morris ranks just ahead of Claudius Johnson (.543) and Cliff Levingston (.538).
 
START CHART:
*Wichita State is 2-0 for the sixth time in seven years and the 44^th time in the program's 112-year history.
*Previous 2-0 Shocker teams were a combined 37-7 their next time out.
*A win would improve WSU to 3-0 for the fifth time in six years.
 
A SHOCKER WIN WOULD…
… Move WSU into Tuesday's semifinal round against the winner of Marquette and VCU (12:30 p.m. CT/8:30 a.m. HT) on ESPN.
… Give the Shockers first round wins in six of their last seven MTE's.
… Improve WSU to 3-0 for the fifth time in six years.
… Even the all-time series with Cal at 1-1
... Extend WSU's regular season winning streak to 15 games.
 
A LOSS WOULD…
… Drop WSU into the consolation bracket and pair them with the loser of Marquette and VCU for a 3 p.m. CT (11 a.m. HT) matchup on ESPN2.
… Put the Shockers in the consolation bracket for an MTE for only the second time since 2011.
… Give Cal a 2-0 lead in the all-time series.
... Snap a 14-game regular season winning streak, dating back to mid-January.