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This Wichita couple uses WSU basketball as an escape during their final days together

Like many Wichita State fans on Tuesday evening, Mike and Mary Jane Furches will sit on their couch and gather around their television to watch the Shockers take on Lipscomb at 6 p.m. Central time on ESPN in the National Invitation Tournament semifinals.

But for this Wichita couple, it could be their last time watching together.

Last July, Mary Jane Furches, 70, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Doctors tried an operation to remove the cancerous cells, but they had to abort and Mary Jane almost died on the operating table. Nine months ago, she was given less than a year to live.