“GOAT” OF 100 YEARS OF SHOCKER LORE TOURNAMENT

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AND OUR FINAL TEAM IN THIS YEAR'S “CORONA MADNESS” “GOAT” OF 100 YEARS OF SHOCKER LORE TOURNAMENT IS:

Seed	Season	Coach	T W's	T L's	T W %
7	2018-19	Gregg Marshall	22	15	59.5%

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AND THE FIRST FOUR-OUT:

Season	Coach	T W's	T L's	T W %
1928-29	Gene Johnson	16	6	72.7%

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2nd team out:

Season	Coach	T W's	T L's	T W %
2009-10	Gregg Marshall	25	10	71.4%

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3rd team out:

Season	Coach	T W's	T L's	T W %
1927-28	Leonard Umnus	14	6	70.0%

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4th team out:

Season	Coach	T W's	T L's	T W %
1945-46	Mel Binford	14	9	60.9%

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Coach Gregg Marshall ran away with the number of bids, but will that be enough to capture this year's crown? We'll find out on the hardwood over the next two weeks.

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We're going to take one more short break, then be right back to go over the game schedules and wrap things up, right here on your favorite Internet sports forum: SHOCKERNET.NET LIVE!

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FIRST ROUND - MONDAY GAMES BEGINNING AT 7:05pm

Region	Seed	Year	Coach	Versus	Seed	Year	Coach
1 Shocker Yellow	#1	2013-14	Gregg Marshall	vs.	#8	1984-85	Gene Smithson
1 Shocker Yellow	#2	1963-64	Ralph Miller	vs.	#7	2011-12	Gregg Marshall
1 Shocker Yellow	#3	1926-27	Leonard Umnus	vs.	#6	1965-66	Gary Thompson
1 Shocker Yellow	#4	1987-88	Eddie Fogler	vs.	#5	2010-11	Gregg Marshall
2 Shocker Black	#1	2014-15	Gregg Marshall	vs.	#8	2004-05	Mark Turgeon
2 Shocker Black	#2	1980-81	Gene Smithson	vs.	#7	2018-19	Gregg Marshall
2 Shocker Black	#3	2015-16	Gregg Marshall	vs.	#6	1962-63	Ralph Miller
2 Shocker Black	#4	1975-76	Harry Miller	vs.	#5	1930-31	Gene Johnson

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FIRST ROUND - TUESDAY GAMES BEGINNING AT 7:05pm

Region	Seed	Year	Coach	Versus	Seed	Year	Coach
3 Shocker White	#1	2016-17	Gregg Marshall	vs.	#8	1986-87	Eddie Fogler
3 Shocker White	#2	1953-54	Ralph Miller	vs.	#7	2019-20	Gregg Marshall
3 Shocker White	#3	2005-06	Mark Turgeon	vs.	#6	1929-30	Gene Johnson
3 Shocker White	#4	1920-21	Wilmer Elfrink	vs.	#5	1981-82	Gene Smithson
4 Shocker Grey	#1	1964-65	Gary Thompson	vs.	#8	1961-62	Ralph Miller
4 Shocker Grey	#2	1982-83	Gene Smithson	vs.	#7	1988-89	Eddie Fogler
4 Shocker Grey	#3	2012-13	Gregg Marshall	vs.	#6	1921-22	Lamar Hoover
4 Shocker Grey	#4	1932-33	Gene Johnson	vs.	#5	2017-18	Gregg Marshall

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WHAT A TOURNAMENT FOLKS!

32 of the best teams of the last 100 years. Final-four teams, Elite 8 teams, Sweet 16 teams, All-Americans, MVC Champs. Winners baby! Winners!!!

So what match-ups are you looking forward to the most?

And who is mostly likely to be booted early?

Meet us back here tomorrow, as we begin wire-to-wire coverage right here on your favorite Internet sports forum: SHOCKERNET.NET LIVE!

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So is your 4th #1 seed the Stallworth/Bowman team or the Thompson/Pete/Leach that finished the season and played in the Dance?

By the way, anything you inserted within all your brackets don't show up in ShockerNet Dark.

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So is your 4th #1 seed the Stallworth/Bowman team or the Thompson/Pete/Leach that finished the season and played in the Dance?

By the way, anything you inserted within all your brackets don't show up in ShockerNet Dark.

My reference source is: https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...tate/1965.html

It shows all five of those players on the official roster for the 1964-65 season. . For the "GOAT SHOCKER TOURNAMENT" If they are on the "Official Roster" they are eligible to play, regardless of any sanctions or eligibility issues during that season.

I would fix the color scheme, but i dont know how to do so.

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CHRONOLOGY OF COACHES AND TEAMS WHO MADE THE SHOCKER LORE TOURNAMENT

WILMER ELFRINK (1920-21), 1 Season
With three veteran starters from last season back, Coach Elfrink had little trouble turning out one of the best basketball teams to represent Fairmount College. They started the season with a nine-game winning streak and ended with a seven-game winning streak.
Team: 1920-21, 16-2 (88.9%) - #4-seed (White Region)

LAMAR HOOVER (1916-18, 21-23), 4 Seasons
Coach Lamar Hoover’s first season team was composed of mainly freshmen. The record was a hard luck 2-11. Each contest was hard fought, but the final game with Friends ended 34-35, giving encouragement for next year. The 1917-18 team improved to 3-10.In Coach Hoover’s 1921-22, the team compiled a 12-4 record. The 1922-23 team defeated some of the fastest teams in the state and compiled a 13-7 record. This was the first year Fairmount entered a basketball team in the National AAU Tournament in Kansas City where they won 2 and lost 1.
Team: 1921-22, 12-4 (75.0%) - #6-seed (Gray Region)

LEONARD UMNUS (1925-28), 3 Seasons
The 1926-27 team ended up third in the nation and second in the state with a 19-2 record. This well balanced team swept through the Kansas Conference with only one defeat, and that at the hands of the champions Pittsburg who later fell to the Shockers. Its second loss was in the fifth game of the National AAU tournament in Kansas City.
Team: 1926-27, 19-2 (90.5%) - #3-seed (Yellow Region)

GENE JOHNSON (1929-33), 5 Seasons
Coach Johnson’s final season ended with a 14-2 record. Wichita defeated Kansas State which had defeated Kansas the week before. The team was invited back to Mexico City to play nine games, six of which they won. He was a pioneer of the game with his “fire department” basketball, which is better known today as the full-court press. In addition, taking the United States team, which featured his brother, Francis Johnson, and WSU star Jack Ragland, into uncharted territory in Berlin, Germany, which at the time was under the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler, Johnson coached the United States to its first-ever Olympic basketball gold medal.
Team: 1929-30, 14-4 (77.8%) - #6-seed (White Region)
Team: 1930-31, 18-5 (78.3%) - #5-seed (Black Region)
Team: 1932-33, 14-2 (87.5%) - #4-seed (Gray Region)

RALPH MILLER (1951-1964), 12 Seasons
In the 1950s and early ‘60s, Shocker opponents dreaded the raucous crowds and the yellow glow of The Roundhouse. What they feared more was the constant full-court, zone pressure defense of Coach Miller’s Shockers, who converted turnovers to layups at an alarming rate. Miller used zone pressure to fashion a career in which he won 674 games and championships in three conferences. An all-around athlete at Chanute High and the University of Kansas, Miller began his coaching career at Wichita East High in 1948, winning 63 games and one state title in three years. Miller broke into the collegiate coaching ranks at Wichita University with a 220-133 record in 13 seasons (1951-63). In 1964, he took the Shockers to their first NCAA Tournament. He later coached at Iowa and Oregon State, retiring as the sixth-winningest coach in NCAA history. A two-time national coach of the year (1981 & 82), Miller took nine teams to NCAA tournaments and five to the NIT. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Team: 1953-54, 27-4 (87.1%) - #2-seed (White Region)
Team: 1961-62, 18-9 (66.7%) - #8-seed (Gray Region)
Team: 1962-63, 19-8 (70.4%) - #6-seed (Black Region)
Team: 1963-64, 23-6 (79.3%) - #2-seed (Yellow Region)

GARY THOMPSON (1964-71), 7 Seasons
Thompson played basketball for the Shockers from 1951-54 and compiled a 93-94 record in seven seasons as WSU head coach from 1964-71. He worked previously as an assistant to Head Coach Ralph Miller from 1957-64. Thompson guided the Shockers to the Final Four in his first season as coach, at the age of 32, and was named the Missouri Valley Conference coach of the year in 1965. He led WSU to its first-and-only No. 1 ranking on Dec. 14, 1964. The list of players he coached at WSU includes: Warren Armstrong, Terry Benton, Greg Carney and Dave Stallworth.
Team: 1964-65, 21-9 (70.0%) - #1-seed (Gray Region)
Team: 1965-66, 17-10 (63.0%) - #6-seed (Yellow Region)

HARRY MILLER (1971-78), 7 Seasons
Coach Harry Miller came to Wichita from North Texas State University with a record of 266-173, while he won three NAIA national championships and his teams made several trips to the NCAA playoffs. His first season the Shockers went 16-10, finishing fifth in the Valley. The 72-73 team recorded 10 victories and 16 losses, placing sixth in the Valley. The 1973-74 and 1974-75 squads had identical records of 11-15 and fifth place Valley finishes. The 1975-76 Shocker team was MVC Champions (10-2) and advanced to the Midwest Regional where it lost in the first round to Michigan. The 1976-77 team also had an identical 18-10 record, and finished third in the Valley. Miller’s last season as Shocker coach collected a 12-14 record and sixth place in the Valley. His seven-year record at WSU was 97-90.
Team: 1975-76, 18-20 (64.3%) - #4-seed (Black Region)

GENE SMITHSON (1978-86), 8 Seasons
Gene Smithson came to the Shockers from Illinois State where he had a record of 66-18 and two consecutive NIT appearances and ranked 13 in the nation. He was the first to coin the MTXE motto for the Shockers (Mental Toughness Extra Effort). During his career at WSU the teams won Valley championships in 80-81 and 82-83 was runner-up at the Midwest Regional, and went to the NIT in 83-84. The 1982-83 team had a 25-3 record and won the Valley with a 17-1 record, but was unable to participate in post season play because they were on NCAA probation. His WSU career started and ended with a 14-14 season with six winning seasons in between. His record at WSU was 155-81.
Team: 1980-81, 26-7 (78.8%) - #2-seed (Black Region)
Team: 1981-82, 23-6 (79.3%) - #5-seed (White Region)
Team: 1982-83, 25-3 (89.3%) - #2-seed (Gray Region)
Team: 1984-85, 18-13 (58.1%) - #8-seed (Yellow Region)

EDDIE FOGLER (1986-89), 3 Seasons
Eddie Fogler came to WSU after 19 years as a player and assistant coach under Hall of Fame Coach Dean Smith at North Carolina. The 1986-87 Shockers finished third in the Valley and went on to win the MVC tournament and a berth in the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 22-10 record. They returned to the Midwest Regional the following year. Both squads lost in the first round of the regional. He also took the 1988-89 team to the NIT. His three-year record at WSU was 61-32.
Team: 1986-87, 22-11 (66.7%) - #8-seed (White Region)
Team: 1987-88, 20-10 (66.7%) - #4-seed (Yellow Region)
Team: 1988-89, 19-11 (63.3%) - #7-seed (Gray Region)

MARK TURGEON (2000-07), 7 Seasons
In seven years Turgeon righted the Shocker program and brought post-season basketball back to WSU with back-to-back-to back NIT appearances in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and a NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in 2006. The 2004-05 team defeated Houston and Western Kentucky at home in the NIT but lost a heart-breaker at Vanderbilt in route to a 22-10 season (the best in 18 years). In 2005-06 Turgeon was named MVC Coach of the Year as WSU (26-9) won its first MVC regular-season title since 1983, made its first NCAA Tournament since 1988 and won its first NCAA game since 1981. As a No. 7 seed, the Shockers defeated Seton Hall and No. 2 seed Tennessee in Greensboro, N.C. to advance to the Sweet 16. The Shockers opened the 2006-07 season 9-0 to tie the best start in program history. In mid-December, they climbed to No. 8 in the AP poll, which was the school’s highest ranking since 1983.
Team: 2004-05, 22-10 (68.8%) - #8-seed (Black Region)
Team: 2005-06, 26-9 (74.3%) - #3-seed (White Region)

GREGG MARSHALL (2007-Still Active), 13+ Seasons
Gregg Marshall has built Wichita State into a monster of the Midwest and, in the process, ascended as one of college basketball’s elite head coaches. Marshall joined an elite club on Mar. 20, 2019 when he recorded his 500th career victory at Furman, becoming just the 10th Division I head coach to reach that milestone before the end of his 21st season. Already WSU's all-time wins leader (308-113, .732), Marshall recorded his 300th Shocker victory on Feb. 28, 2019 against UConn. The 2019-20 campaign will be his 13th at WSU, tying hall of famer Ralph Miller for the longest tenure in program history. Marshall's .719 career winning percentage (502-196, 22nd year) is 11th among active Division I coaches (minimum five years). He's one of just nine coaches with 500 wins and .700+ winning percentage at the D-I level. Under Marshall, WSU has been one of the decade's top programs, winning just shy of 80 percent of its games since the start of the 2010-11 campaign (255-66, .794). Only Gonzaga (.850), Kansas (.811), Duke (.802) and Kentucky (.799) have won at a higher clip.
Team: 2010-11, 29-8 (78.4%) - #5-seed (Yellow Region)
Team: 2011-12, 27-6 (81.8%) - #7-seed (Yellow Region)
Team: 2012-13, 30-9 (76.9%) - #3-seed (Gray Region)
Team: 2013-14, 35-1 (97.2%) - #1-seed (Yellow Region)
Team: 2014-15, 30-5 (85.7%) - #1-seed (Black Region)
Team: 2015-16, 26-9 (74.3%) - #3-seed (Black Region)
Team: 2016-17, 31-5 (86.1%) - #1-seed (White Region)
Team: 2017-18, 25-8 (75.8%) - #5-seed (Gray Region)
Team: 2018-19, 22-15 (59.5%) - #7-seed (Black Region)
Team: 2019-20, 23-8 (75.2%) - #7-seed (White Region)

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Yep, definitely not seeing any of the matchups.

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Multiple Bids by Coaches.JPG

Coach Gregg Marshall ran away with the number of bids, but will that be enough to capture this year's crown? We'll find out on the hardwood over the next two weeks.

You have Gary Thompson with an extra bid.