MOUNT MARTY (3-6) vs. WICHITA STATE (4-4)
Tuesday, Dec. 2 | 6:30 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 snap a three-game losing streak Tuesday night when the Shockers host Mount Marty.
• The Shockers are 22-25 in Multi-Team Events since 2007 and 83-74 all time after going 0-3 last week in the Battle 4 Atlantis.
• Wichita State is 14-2 all time when playing on Dec. 2. This is the first year since 2020 playing on the date.
• Wichita State has outrebounded seven of its first eight opponents and is outrebounding its opponents by an average of 7.8 boards per game.
• Kenyon Giles has scored 15+ points in all eight games this season, including three 20-point games. He's matched a season high with 24 twice in wins over Loyola and Milwaukee.
• He ranks 3rd in the American in scoring at 18.6 points per game.
• Giles is converting 46.7% of his attempts from long distance (28-for-60) this season, 2nd in the American.
• No Shocker has ever made 20 three-pointers through the team's first five games of a season. Xavier Bell led the Shockers in made three-pointers last season with 35 for the whole year.
• Giles ranks 12th nationally in 3-pointers made (28) and 16th in 3-pointers made per game (3.50).
• Brian Amuneke had a breakout game vs. Western Kentucky in the Bahamas, scoring a season-high 11 points off the bench.
• Dre Kindell has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.83, good for 17th nationally and tops among all players in the American.
• Karon Boyd recorded his second double-double of the season with 14 points and 11 rebounds vs. Colorado State. Both were season highs. Boyd then set a new season high in points vs. WKU with 15.
• Three different Shockers have recorded a double-double through the first five games (Karon Boyd, TJ Williams and Berg).
• 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 94 after a 4-4 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 17-6 in the month of November.
• 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 Chicago with two.

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 MOUNT MARTY
• Mount Marty is an NAIA school located in Yankton, S.D.
• Mount Marty is led by fifth year head coach Collin Authier.
• Authier's Lancers are coming off their best season under his leadership at 10-17 overall and 7-13 in the GPAC.
• The Lancers are 3-6 to begin the 2025-26 campaign and 2-2 in league play.
• Mount Marty averages 77.2 points per game and allows 75.2 points. They convert 47.1 percent of their field goal attempts and 35.5 percent of their three-point tries. On the glass, Mount Marty grabs just 29.7 rebounds per game.
• Sutton Arend leads Mount Marty in scoring at 15.1 points per game to go with 6.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists.
• Deegan Williams chips in 11.3 points and a team-high 5.8 assists.

KG THE BUCKET
• Kenyon Giles leads the team in scoring at nearly 20 points per game through the first eight games of the season. He had three 20-point games in November, becoming the first Shocker since Markis McDuffie in 2018 to have three 20-point performances in the month of November.
• Giles has scored 149 total points this season - 92 of those have come after halftime. The 5-10 guard scores 61.7 percent of his points in the second half. He has scored fewer than 10 points after halftime just twice this season, which includes one scoreless second half vs. Prairie View A&M. Against PVAMU he scored all 15 of his points in the first half.

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.
• Kenyon Giles is spearheading the long range bombing. He ranks 12th in the NCAA in total 3-pointers made (28), 16th in 3-point field goals pergame (3.50) and 37th in total 3-point percentage (46.7%).
• Giles was one of only five players in the country this season to make at least 20 three-pointers through the first five games of the season.
• He is the first Shocker in program history to knock down 20 three-pointers in the first five games of a season.
• To put that into perspective, Giles is only seven three-pointers away from matching the Shockers' three-point leader from a season ago (Xavier Bell - 35).

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.

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 87 points away from 1,000 in his collegiate career, and played his 100th career game on Nov. 26 vs. Saint Mary's. He needs 16 steals to reach 100.
• Kenyon Giles needs 149 points to reach 1,500 career points. He played his 100th career game on Nov. 8 vs. Prairie View A&M. He needs 11 assists to reach 200 career assists.
• Jaret Valencia is 9 blocks away from 100 career blocked shots.

ON THIS DATE: NOVEMBER 26
• 1951 – Naismith Hall of Famer Ralph Miller coacherd his first collegiate game and 2,000-point scorer Cleo Littleton made his freshman debut for the Shockers at Colorado.
• 1970 – Reserve Rick Kreher hit a corner shot with two seconds remaining to lift the Shockers to a 63-62 exhibition win over Athletes in Action.
• 1980 –  Wichita State set a modern-era record for margin of victory, steamrolling Hardin-Simmons by 59 points (105-46). That Shocker team would go on to play in the Elite Eight.
• 2018 – Wichita State unveiled a life-size bronze statue of late All-American Dave Stallworth outside of Charles Koch Arena. Hours later, the Shockers played inspired basketball against NCAA at-large selection Baylor, leading by as many as 33 points late in the first half.

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 went 4-4 in 2025, good for a 17-6 record in November under Mills.
• Under Mills, Wichita State is 12-0 at home, 2-1 on the road and 3-5 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).
• 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 5-4 this season.
... Snap a three-game losing streak.
... Move them to 1-0 all time vs. Mount Marty.
... Make Paul Mills 39-38 as Wichita State head coach.
... Give Mills 145 career coaching victories.
... Run their record to 1,696-1,283 all time.

A SHOCKER LOSS WOULD...                                                                     
... Drop them to 4-5 this season.
... Be their fourth straight loss.
... Drop them to 0-1 vs. Mount Marty.
... Make Paul Mills 38-39 as Wichita State head coach.
... Lower Mills' career record to 144-123.
... Drop their record to 1,695-1,284 all time.

GAME 10: at NORTHERN IOWA                                                                 
• Wichita State leads the all time series 29-28 following last year's win over the Panthers in Koch Arena.
• Wichita State has won each of the last three matchups, including two straight in Cedar Falls.
• The Panthers are 6-1 to open the season, their lone loss coming against Tulsa.
• Now in his 20th season at UNI, Ben Jacobson has 380 career wins.