Wichita State media love thread

[bighouse]

"Sure: It would have been nice if the Shockers had a harsher schedule. It would have been helpful if they beat Florida and Duke and the Bill Walton UCLA Bruins and the '85 Chicago Bears and Rod Laver in 1969. But they played who they played. And they beat all of them. It doesn't happen very often" I like that...

[Rosewood]

$9 is too much to pay for beer

[HockeyShock]

The problem is that, even if we had beaten Rod Laver in '69, people in the media would gripe that we should have beat him in '65 when he was better.

[Rosewood]

Here is another idiotic article -- I expect more from Forde -- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-bes...14798-nba.html

For reasons both historical and immediate, the antithetical mission for Wichita State this weekend should be this:
Just lose, baby.

[shocka khan]

Not media love, but definitely Cotton love.....

[GoShox]

Love love love the new espn bracket!

[mjbaker84]

Love love love the new espn bracket!

can you post it?

[jocoshock]

@ESPNCBB: 1 Seeds: Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Wichita St

2 Seeds: Duke, Villanova, Virginia, Wisconsin

Updated Bracketology: http://es.pn/1aaCZPH

[Rosewood]

@ESPNCBB: 1 Seeds: Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Wichita St
2 Seeds: Duke, Villanova, Virginia, Wisconsin
Updated Bracketology: http://es.pn/1aaCZPH

I'd take that road to the F4. In a dream world it would go 16/Baylor/Oklahoma/Texas

[shock-it-to-me]

That would be a cake walk to the final four! Kidding of course ;)

Seriously, I just don't want to see Oklahoma State as an 8/9 in our region. Who else would you rather NOT see in the round of 32? Kentucky? Maybe SMU?

[Shocker1976]

can you post it?

MIDWEST (Indianapolis)

St. Louis
1WICHITA ST
16ALABAMA ST / 16UTAH VALLEY

8Arizona St

9Baylor
San Diego
5Oklahoma

12SOUTHERN MISS

4LOUISVILLE

13STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
San Antonio
6Texas
11Arkansas / 11Nebraska

3Creighton

14BELMONT
Milwaukee
7NEW MEXICO

10Colorado

2Wisconsin

15UC IRVINE

[Zubcut]

Oh man. You think the guys would like another shot at Louisville? I do.

[jocoshock]

@UsportsHub:: Gregg Marshall Q&A: Coach discusses Shockers' perfect season (h/t @JonRothstein) http://ow.ly/ui4Qg #WSU

[RoyalShock]

Kudos to Darren Boatright for boiling down the scheduling issue to the core in this piece from Gregg Doyel.

[RoyalShock]

Here is another idiotic article -- I expect more from Forde -- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-bes...14798-nba.html

Here's the quote that struck me:

Dragging that "0" in the loss column into the fishbowl of the NCAA tournament would be like loading a 500-pound anvil in with the team travel gear. It's a huge and non-essential burden.

Especially when you're Wichita State.

Evidence that he doesn't understand what makes this team so consistent. The Shockers are simply tougher than what the college basketball world is used to seeing. I don't for one single, solitary second believe that a loss will take any pressure off this team. If anything, a loss will only add to the pressure they'll put on themselves.