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‘It will be hard to leave this place’: Echenique goes out strong in final regular-season victory over Tulsa

Wichita State players embrace senior Jaime Echenique as the clock expires during the game against Tulsa on March 8 inside Charles Koch Arena.

Before Jaime Echenique walked off of Devlin Court for a final time, he stopped at half court. Echenique got down on both knees, leaned forward, and kissed center court.

He got up and walked off the court to a standing ovation.

“It will be hard to leave this place,” Echenqiue said after the final home game of his college career. “I was trying to hold it in. It’s so hard to leave a place that you love so much.