**WSU @ Indiana State Game Thread**

[SB Shock]

Ugh, I've been hit by the stomach virus and have been blowing chunks and sitting on the throne. I've garnered enough energy to type. Once again I've made an awful prediction. Had all my predicts been true, I would be sitting at 19 - 5, that's pretty good. But this team continues to floor me. I won't eat crow right now as I'd throw it right up.

It good to see KARMA in full effect...

[shoxlax]

Who is "Chunks?"

LMFAO

[Play Angry]

Who is "Chunks?"

And here I thought that ISUb cheerleader was a girl...

[Indiana_State_Blue]

Good Game

Great game tonight, I have to hand it to your team. We played a great game; yeah we missed a lot of FTs but your defense was equally responsible for you guys walking away with the W( If not more so). As a recent graduate this is definitely one of the top 2 games I have ever attended at the Hulman Center. Knocking down Creighton last year and holding Dougie to 8 gets the top spot, but barely. We also set the school record for student attendance tonight at 2,100. Once again great game, and great win your team deserved it.



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[WSU Shocker]

Holding Daddy's Boy to 8 and beating Creighton - sweet.

[pinstripers]

"You don't understand, Chunks is my dog................."

[ShockerFever]

Lots of love coming the Shocks' way, and it was in a game in which they clearly didn't look their best.

Stay Angry, boys.

But very proud.

[molly jabali]

Great game tonight, I have to hand it to your team. We played a great game; yeah we missed a lot of FTs but your defense was equally responsible for you guys walking away with the W( If not more so). As a recent graduate this is definitely one of the top 2 games I have ever attended at the Hulman Center. Knocking down Creighton last year and holding Dougie to 8 gets the top spot, but barely. We also set the school record for student attendance tonight at 2,700. Once again great game, and great win your team deserved it.



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thought it was a hard fought, CLEAN, well respected game...refs were pretty much a non factor either way...like your team a lot, I-S-B!

[jocoshock]

Game of the Night: Wichita State has just enough to hold off Indiana State.

The Shockers led pretty much for the entire game. Indiana State made it closer near the end. But a 3-point play by Cleanthony Early -- who led the Shockers with 19 points -- to make it 61-56 was the deciding play down the stretch. Chadrack Lifile hit some big free throws down the stretch to secure the W.

Many people looked at this game as the toughest test for WSU in its conference slate. Indiana State is the second-best team in the Valley this year, so the thought was, if ISU couldn't win, who could? It still remains possible, but the odds are ever, increasingly, in the Shockers' favor in getting to the end of the regular season without a loss.

Ultimately, the Shockers deserved this win, too. If you're rooting for WSU to get to the end of the season, you've gotta be happy in how Greg Marshall's team is doing this. The wins are convincing and this team looks more and more like a Final Four threat.

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaab/eye-on-college-basketball/24432755/night-court-wichita-state-hangs-on-san-diego-state-roars-back

[Rlh04d]

Yeah. I was down with that until Adams called the NIT a national championship. Ummmm. Yeah. But....

To be fair, Coach K and Coach Boeheim combined for three NIT's during their first 15 seasons, winning zero. Coach Marshall went to two, winning one. Making it sound like it's in the same breath as the NCAA Championship is wrong, but it's a fair comparison.

I think it's very interesting that Coach Marshall's numbers are so similar to Coach Boeheim's in the first 15 seasons, considering Boeheim's career has been exclusively with Syracuse.

[ShockerFever]

Gotta hope the Sycs win out. They're just 6 spots away from making our Top 50 win total go to 5. That would be pretty good.

[WSUwatcher]

Just so you are all clear, I am not going to go through over 30+ pages at 25 per page to read your all's comments. I will just assume you enjoyed the game.

Sometimes when the team is clinging to a lead, building it and then dissipating it time after time, STRUGGLING offensively, and even FVV gets smothered and then misses a key front end FT, it's hard to tell if I'm enjoying the game or not. I thought I was when Early got the big three-point play to stretch the lead back to five, and I was finally sure I was when Lufile went to the line and made it a seven point lead in the closing seconds. But up until then, enjoyment was elusive and uncertain.

[Play Angry]

Gotta hope the Sycs win out. They're just 6 spots away from making our Top 50 win total go to 5. That would be pretty good.

Yep, that would be huge.

RPIforecast says the Sycs RPI would be 49.7 heading into Arch Madness if they lose 1 more, 41 if they run the table. Either result + making the finals in St. Louis probably gets er done.

[ShockerMas]

Is anybody else completely sick of these Valley TV announcers? It's getting to the point where muting is becoming the only option to save my sanity. No offense to Odum who is a good player, but at one point they called him one of the greats of the Valley (referenced him on some random combination of stats compared to Oscar Robertson and Bird) and that's just an insane claim to make

[ShockerFever]

It's funny reading on every Valley team's message board we play and hear about it being the best atmosphere in the history of their existence, it was the loudest ever at their arena, we can build on this, etc., etc.

Unfortunately for these teams, most of the fans are there to see the opposition, not their own teams. That's why nobody else shows up in non-WSU games.