They were Magnificent

[SB Shock]

Serious question: How many people were at the pep rally after the Sweet 16 return home? Was there even a pep rally held at KOCH that year? I can't rememeber back that far.. maybe there was a pep rally?

There was a impromptu pep rally at the airport after they advanced to the elite 8 and then there was a post tournament pep rally.

[another shocker]

Serious question: How many people were at the pep rally after the Sweet 16 return home? Was there even a pep rally held at KOCH that year? I can't rememeber back that far.. maybe there was a pep rally?

Wasn't it the pep rally where Turgeon said he was staying?

I don't know. I don't remember it.

[SB Shock]

I don't know. I don't remember it.

Don't worry. There are those of us who were out of diapers then that can help.

The sweet 16 stuff was much sweeter. The impromptu meeting at the Airport was awesome where Shocker fans filled the airport lobby (much to the TSA chagrin) to meet the unsuspecting players.

[another shocker]

A meeting at the airport as opposed to a police escort to Koch arena, SB Shock? :) I was at the airport when the WSU team returned from an Elite 8 appearance in '81. All 200 of us were very happy to be there.. as were the 4,000 of us at Koch Arena yesterday.

[SB Shock]

A meeting at the airport as opposed to a police escort to Koch arena, SB Shock? :) I was at the airport when the WSU team returned from an Elite 8 appearance in '81. All 200 of us were very happy to be there.. as were the 4,000 of us at Koch Arena yesterday.

There was 5,000 in 2006 (plus the airport was much bigger in 2006 than 1981 and held more people) :D

[1979Shocker]

If Coach Marshall would have been the coach of the 2006 team, I wonder how they would have done.

[ShockerFever]

Serious question: How many people were at the pep rally after the Sweet 16 return home? Was there even a pep rally held at KOCH that year? I can't rememeber back that far.. maybe there was a pep rally?

I recall a pretty big pep rally of about 4,000 people crammed inside of Mid Continent Airport at about 11:00pm that Saturday night.

[ShockerInKC]

I look at it like this. WSU is 1 of only 4 mens NCAA Division 1 basketball teams to finish the season with a win. In my eyes, that is all that matters. Yes, we could and should have gone to the NCAA tournament. But I'll take a championship over ending the season with a loss, even if it is in the NCAA tournament, any day.

1 of 4 that really matter, although I think independents like New Orleans and Savannah St. won their final games.

Not that it matters, but the Ivy League does not have a touney, so 1/2 of the Ivy League won their last games, too.

[Kung Wu]

I still want to know if this is the first time we have ever played a game at the end of a season and knew definitively that it was our last game, no matter what the outcome (since the inception of the auto-bid via the MVC tourney). I think it has to have been?

[ABC]

No, the two probation years in 82 and 83 would have been that way. (the last game being really, the last game)

[Kung Wu]

No, the two probation years in 82 and 83 would have been that way. (the last game being really, the last game)

Ahh, good call!

[SHOXAAC]

I still want to know if this is the first time we have ever played a game at the end of a season and knew definitively that it was our last game, no matter what the outcome (since the inception of the auto-bid via the MVC tourney). I think it has to have been?

Also the beatdown we suffered at the hands of Bill Bradley and Princeton in the consolation game of the 1965 NCAA Tourny...ouch!!!

[1972Shocker]

I still want to know if this is the first time we have ever played a game at the end of a season and knew definitively that it was our last game, no matter what the outcome (since the inception of the auto-bid via the MVC tourney). I think it has to have been?

Also the beatdown we suffered at the hands of Bill Bradley and Princeton in the consolation game of the 1965 NCAA Tourny...ouch!!!

Yes, except that was pre-MVC Tourney auto bid time. There were probably many time in our history where we definitively knew that it was out last game.

[SHOXAAC]

I still want to know if this is the first time we have ever played a game at the end of a season and knew definitively that it was our last game, no matter what the outcome (since the inception of the auto-bid via the MVC tourney). I think it has to have been?

Also the beatdown we suffered at the hands of Bill Bradley and Princeton in the consolation game of the 1965 NCAA Tourny...ouch!!!

Yes, except that was pre-MVC Tourney auto bid time. There were probably many time in our history where we definitively knew that it was out last game.

You mean there was a time when there were no conference tourny's???

...a time when the NCAA wasn't rolling every stone with money symbols.

Seriously I'm not old enough to remember. ;-)

I just reference 1965 because my grandpappy used to tell me stories of the days before dirt. :D

[SpanglerFan316]

I want to use this thread to THANK the players, coaches, players' families & friends, coaches' families & friends and the fans for this season.

Thanks especially to Gabe Blair , Derek Brown, J.T. Durley, Aaron Ellis, Graham Hatch, Gregg & Lynn Marshall, Chad Dollar, Chris Jans, Marty Gross, Dominic Okon and everyone else in the Athletic Department involved with the Shocker season.