MILWAUKEE (2-3) at WICHITA STATE (3-1)
Saturday, Nov. 22 | 6:00 p.m. CDT
Wichita, Kan. | Charles Koch Arena
 
TV: ESPN+ with Shane Dennis & Bob Hull
Radio: KEYN 103.7 FM with Mike Kennedy & Dave Dahl
 

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OPENING TIPS
• Wichita State looks to get back in the winning column Saturday night vs. Milwaukee in Charles Koch Arena.
• Wichita State is 1-0 all time vs. Milwaukee, but the two programs haven't met since 1975.
• Wichita State is 4-3 all time when playing on Nov. 22. This is the second straight season the Shockers have played on the date.
• Wichita State has outrebounded each of its first four opponents and is outrebounding its opponents by an average of 9.0 boards per game.
• Wichita State broke the single game school record for made three-pointers vs. Loyola with 16.
• Wichita State finished the Loyola game scoring 1.46 points per possession, the highest by a Shocker team since 2016-17.
• Wichita State tied the school record for fewest turnovers in a single game vs. Loyola with two.
• Wichita State is coming off its first 100-point game since 2021. The Shockers dominated Prairie View A&M, 105-62, marking the first time in four years a Shocker team has scored 100 points, which was also against Prairie View A&M.
• Kenyon Giles has scored 15+ points in all four games this season. He scored a game-high 24 points on 7-of-8 three-pointers vs. Loyola. His 7 three-pointers tied for the 4th most in school history.
• Giles is 14-for-20 from three-point range over his last three games. For the season he is converting 59.3% of his attempts from long distance.
• Giles ranks 12th nationally in 3-pointers made per game (4.00) and 16th in 3-point percentage (59.3%).
• Dre Kindell has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 8.00, good for 9th nationally and tops among all players in the American.
• Will Berg recorded his first career double-double vs. Loyola with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
• Three different Shockers have recorded a double-double through the first four games (Karon Boyd, TJ Williams and Berg).
• Wichita State has at least one dunk in 38 consecutive games - a school record. The Shockers broke the record on Nov. 13 vs. Loyola.
• Paul Mills added much needed outside shooting from the transfer portal during the offseason in the way of Giles (15.3 ppg, 40% 3-PT Pct.), Michael Gray Jr. (11.1 ppg, 41% 3-PT Pct.) and Brian Amuneke (7.7 ppg, 40% 3-PT Pct.).
• The Shockers opened the season ranked No. 128 according to KenPom, but have jumped to 92 after a 3-1 start to the season. Seven of Wichita State's potential 13 non-conference opponents are ranked in the Top 80 of KenPom's preseason rankings.
• Mills won 34 games over his first two seasons, 3rd most in program history.
In the Mills era, Wichita State is 16-3 in the month of November.

THE SHOCKS, IN SHORT
• Wichita State returns just 0.9 percent of its scoring from a season ago. The Shockers lost their top nine scorers from 2024-25 and 12 total letterwinners. Wichita State  lost seven players to graduation (Xavier Bell, Harlond Beverly, Matej Bosnjak, Bijan Cortes, Ronnie DeGray III, Justin Hill, AJ McGinnis, Zane Meeks) and four to the transfer portal (Quincy Ballard: Mississippi State, Corey Washington: SMU, Yanis Bamba: Maine, Zion Pipkin: South Plains JC).
• Wichita State brings back only two returners that logged minutes in 2024-25: Joy Ighovodja (87 minutes) and walk-on Henry Thengvall (8 minutes). TJ Williams is the only other returner, but he did not see any action after redshirting.

SCOUTING MILWAUKEE
• Bart Lundy has set the bar high in his first three years with the Panthers, leading the team to three consecutive 20-victory seasons, marking the first for the program since a record four straight back from 2002-06. He also became the first head coach to claim 20+ wins in each of his first three years on the bench in Milwaukee's NCAA Division I era.
• The 2024-25 campaign concluded with an overall record of 21-11, including a 14-6 mark in the Horizon League that resulted in a tie for second place. His offense finished with Top-5 entries in the school's record books in scoring average (78.4 ppg), total points (2,510), field-goal percentage (.468), field goals made (907), and field goals attempted (1,939).
• The team finished first in the NCAA in fastbreak points with 18.4 per game. The Panthers also set a program record in rebounds per game at 39.2 to rank No. 21 in the nation, helping Milwaukee place second in the NCAA in rebound margin at +9.3.
• This season, Milwaukee welcomes eight new faces, broken down into three freshmen (2 true freshmen in Stevie Elam and Josh Dixon & redshirt freshman Sekou Konneh) and five transfers (including NCAA Division I transfers in Seth Hubbard/Toledo and Amar Augillard/Fresno State). Other transfers include Isaiah Dorceus (Daytona State), Chandler Jackson (Parkland) and Tate Mackenzie (Howard).
• Milwaukee was picked to finish first in the Under Armour preseason poll conducted by the League's head coaches, SIDs, and media members.
• Last year, the Panthers were picked No. 1 for the first time since prior to the 2006-07 campaign. In addition, Milwaukee saw three of its players earn Preseason All-League honors – no other league program had more than one of its players selected. Newcomer Amar Augillard was picked as a First-Team honoree, while both Faizon Fields and Seth Hubbard earned Second-Team honors.
• Milwaukee enters on a two-game losing streak, but both games came on the road against P4 opponents in Indiana and No. 11 Texas Tech.
• Through five games, Hubbard leads the Panthers in scoring at 17.2 points per game on 47.9 percent shooting and 39.1 percent from three-point range.

CONNECT THE DOTS
• Wichita State forward Emmanuel Okorafor and Milwaukee senior forward Danilo Jovanovich spent the 2023-24 season on the same team at Louisville. Jovanovich played in 20 games that season, while missing time due to injuries.
• Milwaukee redshirt senior guard Aaron Franklin had an All-American freshman campaign at nearby Hutchinson Community College in 2022-23.
• Redshirt senior guard Amar Augillard and Shocker sophomore Brian Amuneke were teammates at Fresno State last season for half the season. Augillard played in 11 games before departing the team.
• Milwaukee associate head coach Jake Williams had a successful two-year stint at Dodge City Community College, leading the Conquistadors to a 30-5 record and an Elite Eight appearance in the NCJAA Division I National Tournament.
• Assistant Coach Ben Walker also had a brief stint in the JUCO ranks in Kansas. Walker spent the 2014-15 season at Butler Community College, helping the Grizzlies to the national tournament.

FROM BEHIND THE ARC AND BEYOND
• Wichita State's offense was lethal from three-point range in the wins over Loyola and Prairie View. The Shockers splashed in a new school record 16 three-pointers in the win over Loyola Chicago on Nov. 13, converting 50 percent of their attempts for the game.
• After starting the season 4-of-16 vs. UNC Asheville, the Shockers are 26-for-55 (47.3 percent) from beyond the arc in the games against Prairie View A&M and Loyola.
• Kenyon Giles is spearheading the long range bombing. Giles was 7-for-8 vs. Loyola and has made 14 of his last 20 attempts (70.0 percent).
• Giles is one of only three players in the country this season to make at least 14 three-pointers through the first three games of the season.
• He's the first Shocker in program history to knock down 14 three-pointers in the first three games of a season.
• Michael Gray Jr. went 0-for-2 from deep in the season opener, but has cashed in 9 of his last 19 (47.4 percent).

PROTECT THE ROCK
• Lost in the shuffle during Wichita State's shooting display against Loyola Chicago, the Shockers committed only two turnovers in the game, tying the single game school record for fewest turnovers. The Shockers had two vs. Cincinnati on Jan. 5, 2023 and at Southern Illinois on Feb. 9, 1981.
• Wichita State finished the game with 17 assists on 33 made field goals. The assist-to-turnover ratio of 17:2 (8.50) also tied a single game school record.

POINTS ON POINTS ON POINTS
• The Shocker offense fired on all cylinders, putting up back-to-back games of 105 and 95 points in wins over Prairie View A&M and Loyola Chicago. The 200 combined points in consecutive games are the most since Wichita State scored 218 in back-to-back games against Bradley (116) and Indiana State (102) in 1988.

WELCOME TO DUNK STREET
• Karon Boyd's dunk with 15:12 left in the game at Boise State on Nov. 18 extended Wichita State's streak of games with at least one dunk to 38 in a row - a new school record. The streak began on Nov. 4, 2024 at Western Kentucky.

CENTURY MARK
• Wichita State put 105 points on the scoreboard in the win over Prairie View A&M on Nov. 8, marking the first 100-point game for the Shockers since Dec. 22, 2021. The opponent in that 2021 game? Prairie View A&M.
• The 105 points are the most points by a Shocker team since Nov. 28, 2017 when Wichita State scored 112 vs. Savannah State.
• Wichita State has topped the 100-point mark 63 times in program history.
• Wichita State has won 29 straight games when eclipsing 100 points.

TJ WILL.I.AM
• Redshirt freshman TJ Williams recorded a double-double in just his second career game in the win over Prairie View A&M on Nov. 8. The Wichita native finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and was a perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line. He's the first Shocker freshman to post a double-double since Dexter Dennis on March 15, 2019 vs. Temple. No Shocker has had a game with these numbers in the last 25 years.
• He is the first freshman in American Conference history to have a 10-10-5 game, while going 10-for-10 at the free throw line.
• Williams is only the 5th freshman to record a 10-10-5 game and shoot 100% at the free throw line in American Conference history, joining Houston's Jarace Walker (March 24, 2023), UCF's Taylor Hendricks (Dec. 21, 2022), UConn's Christian Vital (Jan. 28, 2017) and ECU's Kentrell Barkley (Jan. 27, 2016).
• Since 2007, only one other freshman, nationally, has posted a 10-10-5 and 10-for-10 free throw game in the NCAA. That was Campbell's Jonathan Rodriguez on Feb. 8, 2007 vs. Stetson.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Karon Boyd is 123 points away from 1,000 in his collegiate career, and 2 games shy his 100th career game. He needs 17 steals to reach 100.
• Kenyon Giles needs 206 points to reach 1,500 career points. He played his 100th career game on Nov. 8 vs. Prairie View A&M. He needs 18 assists to reach 200 career assists.
• Jaret Valencia is 12 blocks away from 100 career blocked shots.

ON THIS DATE: NOVEMBER 22
• 2003 - In the semifinals of the 2003 Paradise Jam, Wichita State hung on for a 68-65 win over Hampton to send the Shockers to the championship game. The Shockers led by as many as 12 in the second half only to see Hampton close it to three behind a 15-6 run. Wichita State made a living at the free throw line all game, converting 22-of-30 attempts.
• 2005 - As part of the preliminary rounds of the South Padre Island Invitational, Wichita State streamrolled to a 97-66 win over Texas-Pan American in Charles Koch Arena. Sean Ogirri led five Shockers in double figures with a game-high 22 points.
• 2017 - Wichita State took a 14-point lead into halftime of the Maui Invitational Championship game vs. No. 13 Notre Dame, but couldn't hang on. The 6th-ranked Shockers lost by one, 67-66. Notre Dame's Bonzie Colson was nearly unstoppable, going for 25 points and 11 rebounds. Landry Shamet, Shaq Morris and Rashard Kelly were named to the All-Tournament Team.

NOVEMBER SUCCESS
• Wichita State has experienced early season success over the last three seasons since Paul Mills arrived on campus. The Shockers were 7-1 during the month of November in 2023 and finished 2024 at 6-1. The Shockers are off to a 3-1 start in 2025, good for a 16-3 record in November under Mills.
• Under Mills, Wichita State is 11-0 at home, 2-1 on the road and 3-2 in neutral site games in November.

NON-CONFERENCE NOTABLES
• Wichita State will face five first-time foes in the non-conference slate (UNC Asheville, Boise State, Mount Marty,  Wofford and Eastern Kentucky).
• Wichita State is a perfect 10-0 all time vs. current members of the Big South (UNC Asheville).
• The Shockers could play five teams ranked in the Top 80 of KenPom's preseason rankings (Vanderbilt, #19; Boise State, #53; Saint Mary's, #55; VCU, #60; Virginia Tech, #71; DePaul, #78; Colorado State, #79).
• Wichita State has won 10 of its last 15 non-conference true road games, dating back to the 2019 NIT run. The Shockers have two true non-conference road games in 2025 (Boise State and Northern Iowa).

GILES PICKED PRESEASON FIRST TEAM
• Senior guard Kenyon Giles was named Preseason First Team All-Conference by the American coaches. Giles, a transfer from UNC Greensboro averaged better than 15 points per game on 40 percent shooting from three-point range as a junior at UNCG.
• Giles is just the fourth Shocker to earn American Preseason All-Conference honors and first since Tyson Etienne in 2021. Three of the four Shockers to collect preseason accolades have been named to the first team (Giles, Etienne and Landry Shamet). Markis McDuffie was a second team selection in 2018.

A SHOCKER WIN WOULD...                                                                     
... Make them 4-1 this season for the third straight season.
... Move them to 2-0 all time vs. Milwaukee.
... Make Paul Mills 38-35 as Wichita State head coach.
... Give Mills 144 career coaching victories.
... Run their record to 1,695-1,281 all time.

A SHOCKER LOSS WOULD...                                                                     
... Drop them to 3-2 this season.
... Be their first ever loss to Milwaukee and be their first home loss of the season.
... Make Paul Mills 37-36 as Wichita State head coach.
... Lower Mills' career record to 143-120.
... Drop their record to 1,694-1,282 all time.

GAME 6-8: BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS                                                                         
• Wichita State is 1-0 all time vs. Saint Mary's with the only meeting coming in 1959.
• Colorado State or Virginia Tech await the Shockers on Thanksgiving. Wichita State is 8-1 all time vs. Colorado State and 1-1 vs. Virginia Tech.
• Wichita State would then face VCU, Vanderbilt, WKU or South Florida in the final game.
• Wichita State is a combined 19-10 against those four schools.