WICHITA, Kan. – Former Shocker standout Rob Kampman will work alongside play-by-play voice Shane Dennis on Wednesday night's Wichita State men's basketball telecast at Southern Illinois on Cox Channel Kansas.
 
Kampman is the last of three special guest color commentators scheduled for Cox Shocker road games this season. Aubrey Sherrod and Paul Miller previously stepped in.
 
Tip-off from Carbondale, Ill. is scheduled for just after 6 p.m. CT and will air statewide on Cox HD 2022 with simulcasts in the Kansas City metro area on Spectrum Sports KC and on MVC TV affiliates Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports Indiana and Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Fans outside of the Missouri Valley Conference footprint can also tune in via ESPN3.
 
A four-year mainstay, Kampman started 107 games for Wichita State between 2001-05 and – quite literally – helped lay the foundation for the program's current success. He was a freshman in WSU's final season at Levitt Arena and, as a junior, recorded a double-double in the debut of the newly renovated Charles Koch Arena.
 
Though the term had not yet been popularized, the 6-foot-8 Kampman was a true "stretch-four." He's one of just five Shockers to record 500 rebounds and make 100 threes in his career.* Kampman shot better than 40 percent from beyond the arc in three of his four seasons, and his .422 career percentage is third-highest in school history by a player with 100-or-more makes.
 
*- Ron Baker, Jason Perez, Toure' Murry and P.J. Couisnard are the others.
 
A six-time member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll, he was twice times to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team. The steady Kampman averaged between seven and nine points in all four years but finished 26 points shy of the school's 1,000-point club.
 
Nonetheless, his true impact can be measured by team success. A Shocker program that had won less than 37 percent of its conference games over the 12 previous seasons, won at a .625-clip during Kampman's four-year playing career. The Shockers made the NIT in each of his last three seasons, ending a 14-year postseason drought.
 
Kampman arrived in the Fall of 2001 along with fellow freshmen Randy Burns, Jamar Howard and Paul Miller, in what became one of the most impactful recruiting classes in Shocker history. All four went on to be four-year starters.
 
A foot injury sidelined Miller in 2001-02, but Kampman, Burns and Howard were immediate contributors for a roster desperately in need of them. A WSU team that had finished ninth-place in the season prior jumped all the way to fifth in the standings.
 
Kampman started all but two games as a true freshman, while averaging almost 27 minutes per contest. He put up 8.3 points and 4.3 rebounds and set a freshman three-point percentage record that still stands today (.475).
 
In 2002-03, Kampman and company clawed their way to third-place and helped end WSU's 14-year postseason drought with a trip to the NIT. Back-to-back second-place finishes followed, along with two more NIT trips in 2004 and 2005.
 
Kampman's best game came Nov. 29, 2003, in the Shockers' regular season debut at the newly renovated Charles Koch Arena, when he scored 26 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in a win over Northern Arizona. Both were career-highs, and he went on to average a career-best 9.0 points and 5.2 rebounds that year on his way to a spot on MVC's Most Improved team.
 
NIT home wins over Houston and Western Kentucky during Kampman's final go-around were the program's first consecutive postseason wins in 24 years.
 
After leaving WSU, Kampman enjoyed a seven-year professional career in Europe and Australia.