2024-25 Expectations for Shocker Basketball – “Put Up or Shut Up Season Kickoff Ed."

[SubGod22]

If I had Quincy Ballard in my peripheral vision while I was shooting free throws, I'd clang 'em too.

You'd just use that as your excuse for being a poor FT shooter

[Kung Wu]

You'd just use that as your excuse for being a poor FT shooter

Facts.

[WuShock Reaper]

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2025/team-predict-schedule?team=Wichita-State

How much did the needle move in the last week with the Warren Nolan methodology?

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Current Record vs. Predicted	RPI	NET	Current Record vs. Predicted	RPI	NET	Current Record vs. Predicted	RPI	NET
Preseason: 0-0, 17-12	141		11th Game: 8-3, 19-11	94	124
1st Game: 1-0, 20-9	86		12th Game: 9-3, 20-10	79	108
2nd Game: 2-0, 22-7	57		13th Game: 10-3, 20-10	83	107
3rd Game: 3-0, 22-7	60
4th Game: 4-0, 22-7	64
5th Game: 5-0, 23-6	56
6th Game: 6-0, 23-6	48
7th Game: 7-0, 22-8	63
8th Game: 7-1, 22-8	68	93
9th Game: 8-1, 23-7	63	79
10th Game: 8-2, 21-9	37	92

[ShockHat]

Don’t really see us doing what it takes to make it to the tourney (if it’s even possible at this point). Guessing it’d have to take some strings of wins in the tourney + Memphis crapping the bed (probable) to make it. Pretty disappointing with such a senior laden team….

[asiseeit]

22 W's and an NIT bid is about our ceiling unless we get to the finals at Ft Worth and pull an upset. I will be disappointed if we can't even manage an NIT bid. 20 W's should do it.

[Stickboy46]

22 W's and an NIT bid is about our ceiling unless we get to the finals at Ft Worth and pull an upset. I will be disappointed if we can't even manage an NIT bid. 20 W's should do it.

22 Ws and an NIT bid is likely our ceiling as long as the current coaching staff is here.

[WeWillShockU2]

The Temple game will tell if we are a contender or pretender.

[WuShock Reaper]

What I got wrong and what I got right:

#	Most Likely Win	Likely Win	Toss Up	Likely Loss	Most Likely Loss
1	Montana State (Home)	Saint Louis (Neutral)	none	WKU (Away)	Florida/Wake Forest (Neutral)
2	Northern Iowa (Home)	Minnesota (Neutral)
3	Monmouth (Home)	DePaul (Away)
4	Alcorn State (Home)	Kansas State (Home)
5	East Tennessee State (Home)
6	Kansas City (Home)
7	Friends (Home)

I thought we would be 10 and 2 at this point.

Looked optimistic for the outlook when we started off beating Western Kentucky right out of the gate.
The disaster against Florida in Florida was more like a foreshadowing of what was to come.
Losing to DePaul and then the following loss to KC were the 'ruh roh' variety.
Sure, a nice win against K-State. but it was so hard to be optimistic going forward.

[ShockerFever]

The Temple game will tell if we are a contender or pretender.

We should all know the answer to this question by now. Temple will just confirm it.

[shockerfan]

22 W's and an NIT bid is about our ceiling unless we get to the finals at Ft Worth and pull an upset. I will be disappointed if we can't even manage an NIT bid. 20 W's should do it.

Didn't they change the NIT bids to just favor the power conferences even more making it harder for non-power conferences to get bids?

[shock-it-to-me]

Rooting for the St Louis/KSU shox to show up, but I agree it's much more likely the KC shox turn up. That seems to be more our identity than the other

[SubGod22]

As conference play is about to start and looking how the teams appear to stack up right now, I think we go 11-7 in conference to finish 21-10 with 20 D1 wins.

We will struggle with the teams that appear to be in the top half of the conference (Memphis, Temple, North Texas, FAU, and Rice). The bottom half of the conference (everyone else) appears to be really ****ing bad this year. We expected that out of UTSA as they had the farthest to climb upon entering the conference, but Tulsa, Charlotte, and UAB are especially disappointing.