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2024–25 Wichita State Shockers Men's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team represented Wichita State University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Shockers, led by second-year head coach Paul Mills, played their home games at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas as members of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Previous season The Shockers finished the season 15–19 and 5–13 in AAC play. They finished in a five-way tie for 10th place in the AAC. With tie-breakers they got the 12th seed in the AAC tournament. In the first round, the Shockers played 13th seed Rice 88–81. In the second round, the Shockers played fifth-seeded Memphis and upset them, 71–65. The Shockers reached the quarterfinals and played against UAB, but lost 72–60, ending their season. Offseason Departures Incoming transfers 2024 recruiting class Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=12 style="", Exhibition , - !colspan=12 style="", Non-conference reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mills
Paul Kerry Mills (born April 4, 1972) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at Wichita State. Early life Mills, the son of a pastor in the Houston-area community of Aldine, Texas, grew up in a parsonage attached to the church where his father preached. In a story by Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports during the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2021 NCAA tournament, Mills recalled that his family was one of the few Non-Hispanic whites, white families in his neighborhood. Although he never grew beyond , he made the basketball team at Houston's MacArthur High School (Harris County, Texas), MacArthur High School. In the same Yahoo story, his high school coach Walt Kaser recalled that Mills was the last white player he coached. Kaser also told Thamel that he immediately recognized that Mills would become a coach. While Mills earned a partial scholarship to National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA school Southern Wesleyan Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City, Missouri, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by List of cities in Missouri, population and area. The city lies within Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson, Clay County, Missouri, Clay, and Platte County, Missouri, Platte counties, with a small portion lying within Cass County, Missouri, Cass County. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090, making it the sixth-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest and List of United States cities by population, 38th-most populous city in the United States. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
