Wichita State vs Ohio State- 6:05 CST on CBS

[Dawg_tired]

I hate your trailer park hay head high arses...but congrats. Now go bring the Mo Valley a championship.

[shockem]

that final 4 trophy will look nice as a doorstop in our double wide

[xsaluki]

I haven't been that caught up and pulling for team outside of the salukis. This team has beat a number 1 and 2 seed. I now expect a couple more to seal the deal. Love the Valley D.

[shoxrox]

It's a special moment, almost unfathomable. Truly unbelievable!

Glad to bring Valley basketball back to the forefront!

[ShocksRbest]

In past years I thot Marshall had make some poor decisions in close games, but tonight he was aces, from the very beginning. Putting in 4 ball-handlers the last 2+ minutes was smart.

I agree.

More than that, I think Gregg Marshall has had utterly incredible gameplans going into these four games. In every single game we've come out and really took it to our opponents in the first half. I think a large part of that is simply coaching ... we came out with a better gameplan than any of our opponents. Almost every one of our games so far has been a dominating start with later adjustments by the opposing coach making it closer ... but man, the coaching performance in the first half thus far has been incredibly impressive.

The biggest problem Wichita State has had this entire tournament is complacency. We got too comfortable with our lead and just started wanting the game to end. That's an incredible problem to have against the level of teams we're playing. Whenever we're playing all out we've been dominating.

Next week, though ... that's going to be a hell of a tall task up against Coach K or Coach Pitino with a week to prepare for us.

They may have a week to prepare but they also must pick their poison...where do you start with this group and who do you key on?

[bleach]

In past years I thot Marshall had make some poor decisions in close games, but tonight he was aces, from the very beginning. Putting in 4 ball-handlers the last 2+ minutes was smart.

I agree.

More than that, I think Gregg Marshall has had utterly incredible gameplans going into these four games. In every single game we've come out and really took it to our opponents in the first half. I think a large part of that is simply coaching ... we came out with a better gameplan than any of our opponents. Almost every one of our games so far has been a dominating start with later adjustments by the opposing coach making it closer ... but man, the coaching performance in the first half thus far has been incredibly impressive.

The biggest problem Wichita State has had this entire tournament is complacency. We got too comfortable with our lead and just started wanting the game to end. That's an incredible problem to have against the level of teams we're playing. Whenever we're playing all out we've been dominating.

Next week, though ... that's going to be a hell of a tall task up against Coach K or Coach Pitino with a week to prepare for us.

They may have a week to prepare but they also must pick their poison...where do you start with this group and who do you key on?

It will take them all week to convince the players (and themselves) they aren't lucky to get the small school easy game in the first game! Heck, they might prepare all week for the next game. As much as we all know how good the Shox (and the Valley) are, they still don't. Hear Motta at the half? Just didn't make shots.

[shockem]

Matta wasn't prepared. The halftime adjustment was to make more shots? How about how to you stop the Shox? That second half was quite a scare, but it just seem like the opponents are doing much to scout the shox.

[denjayfan1]

Amazing win yesterday Shockers. Thank you for making the Final Four watchable now that you are in it. Ohio St. is one of my least favorite BCS schools so I really enjoyed the win from that perspective as well. I would love to see you guys go up against Duke. Hopefully they will win today.

[rlh04d]

Matta wasn't prepared. The halftime adjustment was to make more shots? How about how to you stop the Shox? That second half was quite a scare, but it just seem like the opponents are doing much to scout the shox.

The halftime adjustment was to scream at the officials for five minutes so that they would make more calls tOSU's way in the 2nd half.

It worked.

Almost the greatest comeback of all time, fueled almost entirely off of FTs. Amazing how close they came without having to make more than a couple of shots.

[rlh04d]

They may have a week to prepare but they also must pick their poison...where do you start with this group and who do you key on?

I really don't know. WSU's depth is insane. We essentially play two entire teams out there. And they're almost all playing very well right now. That just creates havoc for teams that aren't seriously preparing for us.

When you couple that with a coach that is able to gameplan very well and opposing teams that are taking us for granted ... well, you have this.