By Paul Suellentrop
Xavier McDaniel played 36 minutes, twice returning after cramps sent him to the bench, in an exhibition game. No one wanted to sit during this game, regardless of its relative unimportance to the rest of that 1982-83 season.
"He would cramp up, they would take him out," said Mike Kennedy, radio voice of the Wichita State basketball team. "In what seemed like a few seconds, he was literally sprinting to the scorer's table, pounding on the table 'Let me back in there. Get me in there.'"
That game on Nov. 11, 1982 at Levitt Arena turned into the rare exhibition that mattered.