RH: Exhibition Trip Starts Next Week

By Paul Suellentrop

To all the new thrown at the Shockers this summer, throw in a new essential tool to their game.

When practices started for Wichita State's exhibition trip to Greece, the Shockers started using Molten FIBA basketballs, as they will overseas. It is the ball center Kenny Pohto grew up playing with in Sweden.

Even he needs time to adjust.

"We started off practices and they were really slippery," he said. "First two layups, airballs, they slipped out of our hands. But we got used to them."

The FIBA balls look different – with a cream-colored stripe – with a similar size and weight. The FIBA basketball is divided into 12 panels, four more than the NCAA-approved Wilson basketballs…