Chadrack Lufile, as the witnesses remember, stood in the Intrust Bank Arena locker room on Dec. 14, 2013 and told his teammates they could win every game that season.
Every game. Unbeaten. With no fear of the jinx.
Lufile, a former Wichita State center, got that feeling after a 70-61 win over Tennessee put the Shockers at 10-0.
“We were all like ‘Slow down … it’s really hard to do,’ ” Wichita State senior Zach Bush said.
“He was the first one that talked about it,” senior J.R. Simon said. “He mentioned that if we kept playing like that, we could win every game.