The following is an excerpt from GoShockers.com, the official athletics site of Wichita State University.

Three-time defending Missouri Valley Conference regular season champion Wichita State will dance for the fifth-straight year. The NCAA and television partner CBS released the full 68-team NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Bracket on Sunday evening, which includes the Shockers as one of 36 at-large selections to field.

 

WSU (24-8, 16-2 MVC) is an 11-seed in the South Region and will open play Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, at approximately 9:10 p.m. ET/8:10 p.m. CT against fellow 11-seed Vanderbilt. The winner advances to Round of 64 action in Providence, R.I. on Thursday. 

 

The Shockers are one of just nine teams that have won a game in each of the last three tournaments, reaching the Final Four in 2013, the Round of 32 in 2014 (when they earned the programs first-ever No. 1 seed), and the Sweet 16 in 2015. The Shockers' 7-3 tournament record over that span puts them among the top-six nationally, alongside Arizona (8-3), Wisconsin (9-3), Michigan State (9-3), Duke (9-2) and Louisville (11-2).

 

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