After carrying one of the nation’s most inexperienced teams for so much of the season, the two Wichita State seniors were able to take a backseat on their senior night on Tuesday in a 72-55 victory over East Carolina at Koch Arena.
Earlier this season WSU most certainly would have lost if Markis McDuffie and Samajae Haynes-Jones, its two leading scorers, would have combined for 6 for 22 shooting like they did on Tuesday.
But the Shockers (16-13) aren’t the same team they were a month ago. They are now one of the hottest teams in the American Athletic Conference having won eight of their last 10 and posting a winning conference record (9-8) for the first time this season.