Rest assured: While it is surely unfortunate to have many of your teammates transfer and the program you committed to upturned over the course of a few short weeks, what’s happened at Wichita State over the past weeks and months is a net positive for college basketball. You’ll find no sympathy for Gregg Marshall here.
That being said, it’s still possible to lament the loss of prestige a game like this could’ve had just a few months ago — again, entirely Marshall’s fault. Wichita State has filled a void that a program like Missouri would have back in the early 2000s.