Wichita State will play a record number of home dates during the upcoming men's basketball season.
The Shockers' 13-game non-conference slate, released Thursday, includes nine on campus and a tenth in downtown Wichita.
The number will expand to 19 regular season home dates by early September when the American Athletic Conference releases its full schedule, along with tipoff times and television assignments. That shatters the mark of 17, set four times previously.
The home schedule provides quality in addition to quantity. Five of the 10 non-conference visitors earned NCAA tournament bids in 2019: Gardner-Webb (Nov.