Tommy Barnhouse pitched in Wichita State's final baseball game as a Missouri Valley Conference member. He started his college career traveling to the small Midwestern towns and cities that make up the MVC and ended it five years later flying to places such as Florida, North Carolina and Connecticut for games.
Barnhouse and Preston Snavely are the last remaining Shockers from that 2017 season, the two fifth-year seniors who lived through the transition to the American Athletic Conference during the 2017-18 school year, the 2018 season for baseball.