Wichita State Basketball: 2019-20 season overview of the Shockers

2020-21 Outlook

Things look pretty bleak for the Shockers right now. Replacing senior Jaime Echenique was already going to be a tough task for Wichita State, but now they also have the added challenge of replacing 7 transferring players. Those players include Grant Sherfield, Erik Stevenson, Morris Udeze, and Jamarius Burton. That means the Shockers will need to replace 4 of their top 5 scorers next season and their top 2 centers.

The other three are Noah Fernandes, DeAntoni Gordon, and Tate Busse, who were all freshmen this season and could have helped fill the void left by all of the other departures next year. In particular, Fernandes deciding to move on from Wichita is disappointing because he was a player the Gregg Marshall tried to work into the rotation at times during the season.

It’s impossible to tell what is going to happen with the Shockers next year until we see who they get to replace all of these players, but it certainly doesn’t look good. When I’ve seen this kind of mass exodus at other mid-majors they have been very difficult to recover from. New Mexico still hasn’t completely recovered from the flood of transfers that led to Craig Neal’s firing and UNLV just started turning their program around again after their departures from a few years ago.

Hopefully, the Shockers can still secure a strong incoming class of Freshman and some transfers to give the team experience to lean on. Otherwise, we might see the worst season in years from the Shockers next season.