The Shockers began that happiest of post-game rituals – get out of the sweaty uniforms, talk through the game with teammates and dress for the flight home on a chartered DC-3.
Then coach Ralph Miller told them the game wasn't over.
"We're in the shower celebrating and ready to go home," said former Shocker Dave Leach. "Ralph comes in and says we're going back to the floor. Away we went."
No. 19 Wichita State travels to No. 5 Cincinnati on Sunday for the biggest game of the season in the American Athletic Conference. It is the start of the series the conference highlighted when it delayed the first meeting for Sunday and scheduled the rematch on the final day of the regular season on CBS at Koch Arena.