Each season’s Wichita State’s men’s basketball schedule starts with a manila folder with the season plotted month-by-month in colored markers and games written in pencil.
Always pencil, until a contract is signed.
“Unless the ink is dry, there is no deal,” said Devon Smith, WSU’s manager of player development and part of the team that works on scheduling.
The folders (one each for 2017, 2018 and 2019) rest on the desk of director of operations Dominic Okon. A duplicate resides in Coach Gregg Marshall’s office. When a school becomes a potential opponent in search of a date, the manila folder is the first step in what will become WSU’s schedule.