(VIDEO) P.I.T. Talk: Wichita State forward Carl Hall
College Chalktalk’s Kate Lee had the chance to catch up with Wichita State forward Carl Hall on Friday night at the 2013 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Virginia where he had 15 points and 19 rebounds in a 68-67 team win that sent his squad to the PIT Championship. Hall discussed experience playing in the Final Four, the style of play in PIT and shared some fun personal...
Wichita State players 'Googled' its location
ATLANTA Don't leak this information to fiery head coach Gregg Marshall, but Wichita State is playing the de factor Cinderella at the Final Four in Atlanta, due in large part to the fact that not many people could find the school on a map prior to the Shockers' upsets over Gonzaga and Ohio State.
Not even Wichita State's own players.
In a loose press conference Friday...
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April 05, 2013
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Hard work has shaped Wichita State
It was the middle of winter in Wichita, and Gregg Marshall gathered his Wichita State team in the film room to show them what he called the "play of the year."
At this point in the season, things were looking surprisingly good for a team that wasn't supposed to do too much. After losing their top five scorers from the season before, the Shockers had nine new faces...
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April 04, 2013
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Shockers are magic made for March
This is why we watch.
Because any given March, a team full of transfers and castoffs, from a commuter campus in a city more known as the birthplace of Pizza Hut, can become the hottest thing in sports overnight.
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, Gregg Marshall's Wichita State Shockers did what they always do. They outhustled and outmuscled the favored Ohio State Buckeyes. They...
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March 31, 2013
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Wichita State's Hall seeing clearly for Shockers
Carl Hall positions himself down on the block, spins to catch a pass and scores off a layin. That sequence ran on a loop in the opening minutes of Wichita State's regional semifinal against La Salle.
He scored 10 of the Shockers' first 14 points, setting a dominant tone that carried them to a 72-58 victory and within a game of reaching the school's first Final Four since...
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March 29, 2013
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LaSalle falls to Wichita State 72-58
LOS ANGELES, March 29 –The LaSalle Explorers never put up much of a fight to the Wichita State Shockers on Thursday.
LaSalle’s loss can’t be categorized as ugly as much as it can be viewed as a lethargic tap out that was conceded from the opening tip.
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Wichita State player cuts his dreads for NCAA tournament
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Wichita State senior Carl Hall decided he wanted to make a change going in to the tournament. Was his timing good? Check the next slide to see his new look…
“I just wanted to try something different,” Hall explained. “I wanted to be like a new person coming into this tournament.”
CU's Jones, Wichita's Hall know value of heart
Josh Jones came into Koch Arena just as Carl Hall was leaving, wounded hearts passing in the January night.
"How's your thumb?" asked Jones, Creighton's senior guard.
"I'm cool," replied Hall, Wichita State's senior forward.
"Are you playing tonight?" Jones asked.
"Yeah, I'm going to play," Hall said, nodding, wiggling...
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March 01, 2013
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Wichita St proving mid-majors are here to stay
WICHITA, Kan. - Perhaps it was no coincidence that the day Gregg Marshall interviewed for Wichita States head-coaching job happened to be Friday the 13th.
Building a mid-major basketball school into a relevant national program is a Sisyphean-enough task without the obstacles immediately thrown in front of Marshall, whod engineered one of the most impressive low-major program turnarounds...
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February 05, 2013
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Marshall has No. 20 Wichita State flying high
There are some coaches in college basketball who always seem composed. They may be churning below the surface, but outwardly they're calm, keeping everything bottled up until a player makes an errant pass or an official's call goes the other way.
Gregg Marshall is not one of those coaches.
The sixth-year coach of Wichita State is the fly that fell in the can of Red Bull...
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January 24, 2013
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