WSU Athletics will only test symptomatic athletes for the coronavirus this summer
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
June 23, 2020
While many colleges across the nation are planning to test all returning student athletes for the coronavirus, Wichita State Athletics will only test athletes who have symptoms this summer. Athletes are currently only allowed to return to campus for voluntary workouts, meaning they have to initi...
No Shockers selected in abbreviated MLB Draft
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
June 11, 2020
For the first time since 1978, no Wichita State players were chosen in the MLB Draft, which ended Thursday. The MLB shortened the two-day draft from 40 rounds to five due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Draft-eligible players will still have the option to sign with teams as an undrafted free agent, bu...
‘Dynamic talents:’ How the Shockers’ 2020 recruiting class fares nationally
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
June 1, 2020
Following the mass exodus last season in which six scholarship players transferred out of the Shocker Men’s Basketball program, Gregg Marshall and the coaching staff found ways to help fill the void on the recruiting trail. WSU has filled those scholarships with some promising players, in hopes to ...
TBT adjusts summer tournament: 24 teams in one location
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
May 27, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Basketball Tournament has made changes to the tournament this summer. Among those changes is trimming down the tournament to 24 teams and having those teams play in only one location. After reviewing possibilities with medical officials, the TBT said the changes would c...
NCAA allows basketball to resume voluntary athletic activities on June 1
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
May 20, 2020
NCAA Division I football and basketball players can return to campus for “voluntary athletic activities” on June 1, following a Division I Council decision Wednesday. All teams must cooperate with health and safety regulations. While some activities will be allowed, the NCAA said it wants at...
Marty: The top 5 Shocker sports moments from this school year
Sean Marty, Sports Reporter
May 19, 2020
With Wichita State’s spring semester over, Sunflower sports writer Sean Marty compiled a list of the top five sports moments from the past school year. 1. Men’s Basketball’s victory over Memphis In front of a sold-out Charles Koch Arena crowd, the Shockers pulled off a statement victor...
NCAA to make adjustments to NET for the upcoming season
Sean Marty, Reporter
May 14, 2020
The NCAA announced on Monday that starting with the 2020-21 basketball season, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) will have some adjustments to the metric. Originally, NET was composed of five metrics but now it is being simplified down to two. The remaining factors include the Team Value Index, which...
NCAA cancels the 2020 College Basketball Academy, WSU one of the locations
Sean Marty, Reporter
May 12, 2020
The NCAA announced the cancellation of the College Basketball Academy which was supposed to take place during July 20-26. Wichita State was among one of the four locations for the event along with Utah, Winthrop and Connecticut. The academies were originally designed to give future college athletes...
WSU athletic department to make small budget cuts in July; regionalized scheduling approach in line to save money during pandemic
Marshall Sunner, Sports Editor
May 9, 2020
When the sports world started crumbling in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in March, Wichita State Director of Athletics Darron Boatright couldn't have forseen all the crises would lie ahead. Now, more than two months since the abrupt conclusion of sports, the virus is starting to take on a non-human...
A breakdown of each potential nonconference opponent, thus far, for the Shockers
Sean Marty, Reporter
May 9, 2020
Wichita State’s nonconference schedule got closer to being completed this weekend following the reports that the University of Missouri will be coming to Koch Arena next season. Currently, the Shockers have 10 games on its schedule with six of them being high-major games. More matchups are to be added t...
Spring sports seniors get another year of eligibility, but who’s actually coming back?
Matthew Goldsmith, Reporter
May 8, 2020
The NCAA announced on March 30 that spring sports seniors would get an extra year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 outbreak. But not every school is following suit. Some have already made it clear that they won’t let spring sports seniors return to competition next year. For its part, the Wichita...
Steve Forbes, former WSU assistant, inks Power 5 coaching gig with Wake Forest
Sean Marty, Reporter
April 30, 2020
Former Wichita State assistant coach Steve Forbes has been tabbed as the next head coach for Wake Forest, the team announced on Thursday. The head coaching job became open earlier this week following the firing of Danny Manning. After his departure from WSU in 2015, Forbes found success at East Tennessee...
Kamilah Gumbs, Columnist
June 24, 2020
LTTE: Neal Allen, chair of the WSU Political Science Department
June 24, 2020
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LTTE: Joan (Huff) Minor-Grayson, WSU class of 1971
June 14, 2020
LTTE: ‘WSU’s reputation is at stake’ if Ivanka Trump speaks at WSU Tech ceremony
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