Missouri St at Wichita St - Sunday 7:30pm ESPNU

[iSASO]

Fortunately for them, WSU is not a good team and is horrible defensively and in rebounding.

Given all this analysis, I fully expect Vegas to make the Bears a 13 point favorite. 'Sticks, would you make it higher than that? For the "unstoppable" Bears, you knock 10 points off the margin since WSU is the home team and let it ride at Bears -13.

[SirShoxAlot]

Anybody who knows anything about Wichita State does NOT feel confident about playing in Koch Arena. Ever.

Has this MSU team played in front of more than 6,000? Or is that just in Springfield?

[DoubleJayAlum]

It's too bad the Shox don't have...say....8 guys that can put up 15 or so any given night......oh wait.....

MSU has a lot of offensive weapons as well.

I do think the Shox win at home.

[DoubleJayAlum]

I believe that was the 3rd game in 4 nights and lots of travel. They obviously didn't execute that night. That's why I said, WHEN they execute, they are hard to stop. And they seem to more likely than not execute their gameplan.

what so far in the season shows that? It seems that whenever they play a good team the DON'T EXECUTE.

Tennessee
Oklahoma St
Tulsa

Can't the same thing be said for WSU?

[isumvc1]

this is gonna be a GREAT game, really looking forward to seeing it on ESPNU

Not sure who to root for though?

[shockem]

Weems is the best player in the Valley, but the Bears just aren't deep enough to contend at WSU. The quality depth that WSU has is the key to game. Shox by 10, maybe more.

[TNMSUFAN]

Has this MSU team played in front of more than 6,000? Or is that just in Springfield?

Tennessee had 16,000
OK State had 10,400

Nobody thinks we will win this game and I just hope we can find a way to keep it close with a chance to win in the final minute. We have trouble with long athletic teams and Wichita is that for sure. If we can limit turnovers, make some open shots and rebound decent we will have a chance...if not we get beat by 10-14.

[Shockerfan13]

The only thing that concerns me is the Bears' ability to penetrate and get shots close to the basket. They seem to have a few players that can do that pretty well. That has been our achilles heel at times.

[bleach]

The Shox are the clear favorites. They are at home, are preseason favs, have played well so far, are deeper, give the Bears fits in Wichita even on their bad years, and match up well with the Bears. The Bears are playing very well, have more confidence than anytime in the last 5 years, are playing with house money, and the Shox MUST win.
If the Bears hit 3s, rebound well, and don't turn it over, the noose will get tight for WSU. If not, WSU could rout the Bears. Expecting a dogfight between the 2 clear conf leaders.

[Smooth007]

Shox have won something like 34 regular season home games in a row. They are atleast, a slight favorite.