Gregg Marshall is attempting a reloading job this season at Wichita State that no college basketball coach has been able to pull off in the last 16 years.
By now, you’ve probably seen the number 11.2. That’s the percentage of minutes returning from the Shockers’ 25-win team last season.
It’s an important number because no team has made the NCAA Tournament with that few minutes returning since kenpom.com started in the 2002-03 season. That may be tough to comprehend for a program that has played in the last seven NCAA Tournaments and won at least 25 games for the last nine seasons.