Today in Shockers Sports History: January 3rd

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For the day, the Shockers are:
15 and 11

Regular Season (Games of Interest):
2016 - Won at Bradley in Peoria, Ill. 85-58. Markis McDuffie scored 14 points, Fred Van Vleet added 13 and Wichita State used a balanced attack to roll over Bradley 85-58 on Sunday. Wichita State (8-5, 2-0 Missouri Valley) had seven players score between six and 14 points and the Shockers shot over 55 percent (27 of 49) as a team. The Shockers made a 12-0 run over 5:04 in the first half to build a 48-24 lead at intermission. Bradley didn't score for nearly four minutes to start the second half, turning it over four times in the span, and Wichita State's lead hit the 30-point mark with 9:47 left on a layup by Eric Hamilton.

2010 - Beat Bradley in Wichita 81-69. Forward J.T. Durley hit all three of his 3-point attempts and scored 19 points to lead Wichita State past Bradley 81-69 on Sunday. Wichita State (13-2, 2-1 Missouri Valley) never trailed after halftime while improving to 10-0 at home. Toure Murry added 15 points for the Shockers. Leading by one at halftime, Wichita State took control in the second half's opening minutes. Consecutive 3-pointers by Clevin Hannah and Durley ignited a 10-0 run to make it 49-38 Shockers. Wichita State pushed the lead to 58-45 on a Garrett Stutz putback with 10:35 remaining.

1995 - Beat Kansas St. in Wichita 75-51

1991 - Beat Austin Peay in Wichita 81-55

1981 - Beat Iona in Wichita 77-46

1976 - Won at New Mexico St. in Las Cruces, N.M. 70-61

1972 - Beat Bradley in Wichita 71-67

1953 - Beat Houston in Wichita 86-68

1946 - Beat Northwestern Okla. in Wichita 50-30

1930 - Won at Phillips in Enid, Okla. 27-24. The team would go on to win its next 5 true road games to become the original "Road Warriors".

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The January 3rd game in 1930 was a real barn-burner; we left doo-dah before sunrise that morning and made the trek to Enid for an early evening game. It was colder than a well-diggers backside that day and the buses heater never warmed us up. Did I say it was cold that day? The gym was ice-cold and neither team could throw it in the ocean. Even Ross struggled to find the hoop that night. The game came down to the final few seconds, when I found Ross cutting towards the basket; I gave him my patented two-handed bounce pass and he laid it off the board and got hacked with about a second remaining. Ross calmly sank the throw and we had our hard fought three-point road win. Ole Frank Phillips was pissed, and he protested the outcome; he said the clock had expired before Ross laid it off the board. Frank was a whiner. Coach Gene Johnson told him to get back on his horse (named "66") and head back to Woolaroc. We were fortunate to get out of Enid with our scalps intact...

Our team bus...



Frank and his sidekick "66"...


1930 game clock replica...