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Gregg Marshall is able-bodied into his eighth division as Wichita State’s basketball and the hits aloof accumulate coming.
Marshall stresses aggregation comedy and unselfishness, so if you’re basing a Top 10 account of Shockers during the Marshall era on scoring alone, you’re activity to accept a difficult time.
Marshall’s best players are complete. They can do a array of things able-bodied and they defend. If they don’t avert beneath Marshall, they acquisition it adamantine to get on the floor.
So what does a Top 10 account of players who primarily played for Marshall at Wichita State attending like? Here’s one man’s version:
10. Garrett Stutz, C, 2008-12 – Stutz makes the cut because of an outstanding chief season, back he averaged 13.3 credibility and eight rebounds per bold and was one of the nation’s best big men. In his aboriginal three seasons, Stutz was a contributor, but never averaged added than 16.5 account per game.
9. Malcolm Armstead, G, 2012-13 – Armstead fabricated the best of his one division with the Shockers as a key amateur on a Final Four team. He averaged 10.8 credibility and four assists per bold and was an important baton on the Wichita State aggregation that absent a abutting bold to Louisville in the civic semifinals at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
8. Clevin Hannah, G, 2008-10 – Hannah had a above appulse for the Shockers afterwards appointment from Chipola (Fla.) Community College. In two seasons at WSU, Hannah averaged 11.6 credibility and 4.5 assists per bold and attempt 41.4 percent from the three-point line.
7. Carl Hall, F-C, 2011-13 – Hall, a inferior academy transfer, was addition key amateur on the Shockers’ Final Four team, averaging 12.5 credibility and 6.8 rebounds while cutting 54.3 percent from the field. Admitting somewhat undersized at 6-foot-8, Hall had amazing application and athleticism and was rarely overmatched by an opposing team’s size.
6. Tekele Cotton, G, 2011-present – Few players in Shocker basketball history accept appear further from area they started than Cotton, who played beneath than 10 account per bold as a freshman. He’s been a basic allotment of the accomplished three Wichita State teams and is a able applicant to echo as Missouri Valley Conference arresting amateur of the year in 2014-15. He’s additionally had some of the best memorable dunks in Shocker history – about one a game, it seems.
5. Joe Ragland, G, 2010-12 – Yet addition inferior academy transfer, Ragland struggled during his aboriginal division at Wichita State. But he was abundant as a senior, averaging 13.4 credibility per bold and cutting an absurd 50.4 percent from the three-point line. Ragland came to WSU with a abundant acceptability as a shooter, but it took a division for him to acquisition his stroke. He attempt 56.8 percent all-embracing in 2011-12 and was an outstanding attic leader, too.
4. Toure Murry, G, 2008-12 – Murry will consistently betoken the alpha of the Marshall era as one of the aboriginal players recruited to Wichita State by the new drillmaster afterwards he took the job. Murry had a amazing appulse on the Shockers’ program, scoring 1,539 career credibility and acceptable WSU’s best assists baton with 430. Murry, who had a adroitness for the big shot, averaged 11.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 139 career amateur and was aloof as outstanding as a arresting player.
3. Fred VanVleet, G, 2012-present – VanVleet, a inferior on this season’s Shocker team, is headed up the archive in a agglomeration of categories. He’s already at the top, though, as a Wichita State leader. VanVleet has abundant point bouncer qualities and is at his best back he’s active the basketball into the lane. He’s an astonishing ballista afterwards authoritative acquaintance abutting to the bassinet and has no weakness in his game. He’ll like leave Wichita State afterwards the 2015-16 division as the Shockers’ career baton in assists and steals.
2. Ron Baker, G, 2012-present – It’s still adamantine to appreciate that the best Division I action Baker had out of Scott City High was from Arkansas State. Wichita State encouraged Baker to be a walk-on, he accustomed and the blow is history. He’s become one of the finest WSU players in history with a aggregate of aptitude and smarts. The 6-foot-3 Baker is closing in on 1,000 career credibility and leads this season’s aggregation with 16.2 credibility per game.
1. Cleanthony Early, F, 2012-14 – As you can tell, Marshall makes abundant use of inferior academy transfers. Four on this account fit that bill and none was bigger than Early, who was an complete scorer. In a altered system, he apparently would accept averaged 20-25 credibility per game. At Wichita State, he averaged 15.1 in his two seasons, including 16.4 as a senior. Early was at his best on the better stages and had agitating performances adjoin Louisville in the 2013 civic semifinals and adjoin Kentucky in the third-round of the NCAA Tournament aftermost season. He’s now a amateur with the New York Knicks.
