ST. LOUIS
Part of the reason Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet didn’t test their professional stock after last season was because, they said, they wanted to accomplish something special as seniors at Wichita State.
After a Final Four, a run to 35-0 and a Sweet 16 season that included a win over Kansas, sitting on the NCAA Tournament fence isn’t what they had in mind.
But after Saturday’s 57-52 overtime loss to Northern Iowa in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament semifinals, the NIT was a topic of conversation.
“I don’t know, I won’t be sitting in that room,” Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said of the NCAA selection committee, whose 68-team field will be announced next Sunday.