All-Time Favorite Shocker Player

[Ashockalypse]

If Cheese isn’t named specifically it’s a bogus poll!

[ShockerDropOut]

Some really great guys there. It came down to X and Tekele for me. I went with Tekele. It was like splitting hairs though. I feel like I could go up and shake hands with Tekele, X would still scare me!

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

The human highlight reel Tekele Cotton!

Including The Process in the poll made me literally LOL. I don't who you are, that's funny.

[shock]

For me, its the Sultan of Bounce. He embodied everything that WSU basketball culture is.

[Wooglin]

Robert Elmore!

[homegrownshocker]

Antoine Carr is my favorite of all time Shocker players!

[ShockdaWorld]

I voted for Tekele, but it was close between several. I tried to base it purely on watching on the court. As far as off the court, Ron and Fred were both wonderful to my daughter at the basketball camps, and Cheese Johnson and Terry Atwater are great ambassadors for the Shockers and great guys to sit and talk to, but I never had the pleasure of seeing them play.

[N Crestway]

"Other"...Jamie Thompson. Stats over 3 years per game from 1964-1967 [ no varsity eligibility for freshmen at that time ] : FG% .490, FT% .853, TRB 6.7, AST 2.9, PTS 17.7. Also no 3 point shot at that time. Not bad stats for a 6-3 or 6-4 East High grad who was an Academic All American while at WSU.

[Kung Wu]

This is like asking which of your children is your favorite.

[Stickboy46]

This is like asking which of your children is your favorite.

Soooo .. you are saying you have one picked out?

[atlwsu]

Soooo .. you are saying you have one picked out?

We used to tell the kids we would never get a divorce because neither of us wanted custody. We had one we disliked less than than the others but didn't have a favorite.

[Shockadaisical]

For me it was between X and Carr. I went with Carr and the reason he was my favorite, was because he grew up here, so I started following his career a little earlier. I remember being pumped that a high school All-American from.Wichita was going to be a Shocker. I would say choosing between the two, he was my sentimental favorite for that reason. Of course you had Drieling and Sherrod, ( All-American's from Wichita). who did the same, but Antoine was the best of the group.

[AZ Shocker]

Went with the Big Dawg again. He still is my favorite and his autographed basketball still sits on a shelf in my office to this day.

[JVShocker]

I voted X-Man. Anyone that was around in that era is pretty much stuck on voting for him. First NCAA player to lead the nation in scoring AND rebounding at 30 points 15 boards a game (basically). He could teach a lot of young people about playing hard every possession.

Averaged a double-double for three years at the D1 level. He was intimidating to another level. I mean, Tekele Cotton was intimidating, but X was in an entirely different league - his own.

If I could vote for a second player, it might actually be Jason Perez. He was a confident, silent marksman. He took over the team as a freshman in a road game at Kansas State and never looked back. He brought the "long ball" game to Wichita State. He would take the game winning shot with 1 second on the clock and be halfway into the tunnel to the locker room before the ball hit the bottom of the net.

[Shockadaisical]

Quote from JVShocker :: I mean, Tekele Cotton was intimidating, but X was in an entirely different league - his own.

Most definitely. X man was probably the most intimidating player in Shocker history. He had that look of intensity, to go along with a build that was imposing in and if itself.