If a group of aliens landed on Earth and delivered the stat sheet from Saturday’s Northern Iowa-Wichita State basketball game, we’d shoo them back to Planet Airball.
Nothing about the stat sheet adds up.
The Shockers took 18 more shots, had 21 more rebounds and out-rebounded the Panthers 20-1 on the offensive glass.
Yet WSU lost — for the first time in 44 home games, to boot — 53-50. And the reason is as simple as two sets of numbers on an otherwise unexplainable stat sheet.
20 of 66.
7 of 31.
Wichita State shot 30.