Dressed in her custom-made black No. 12 Reaves shirt, Nicole Wilkett’s stomach turned every time her son, Austin Reaves, rose to deliver another three-pointer.
“I was shaking,” said Wilkett, who was an all-conference basketball player for Arkansas State from 1990-92. “I think I was more nervous watching him play than I ever was when I played.”
While Wilkett was shaking, Reaves made Koch Arena shake on Thursday by making his first seven three-pointers – the most in a half in WSU history – to help No. 17 Wichita State defeat Tulsa 90-71. Reaves scored a career-high 23 points with his mother in attendance, perched in her usual spot midway up Section 123.