by Dick Weiss, for The American
WICHITA, Kan. -- Wichita State should be used to getting everyone’s best shot by now.
Gregg Marshall’s Shockers are a perennial NCAA Tournament team that has won 30 or more games in four of the last five seasons. They were ranked seventh in this week’s AP poll and figure to go deep in March after being listed as high as a No. 2 seed in most mock brackets.
But very few foresaw what was coming on Wednesday night.
Shake Milton, SMU’s 6-6 junior point guard, shook Charles Koch Arena to its core, scoring a career-high 33 points as the Mustangs outlasted the Shockers, 83-78, in a huge American Athletic Conference game before a shocked sellout crowd of 10,506.