Missouri State is taking on Wichita State and the Shockers come into the college basketball game on Saturday undefeated and the game will be airing live on ESPN and streaming on the WatchESPN website as the team tries to remain without any losses and they care coming right to the end as their conference tournament is looming and the game starts at 2 pm ET from Charles Koch Arena and now they are playing Evansville in the conference tourney.
The Shockers are coming into the game at 30-0 this season and they are coming back after playing in the Final Four last year and now they are 17-0 in the Missouri Valley Conference and if they win this game, they will finish the regular season undefeated and that puts them into their conference tournament undefeated as well. No one has made it into the NCAA tournament undefeated in decades and the Shockers could be the first and this comes after Syracuse was undefeated well into the season, but they lost and now the Shockers are the last ones left.
The team won over Bradley in the last game and now they have not lost in 30 games and are looking to finish things off undefeated on Saturday. Missouri State comes in after a win over Loyola and they have won two straight games coming into the day and they had lost two before that and they previously almost defeated Wichita State in January and that was when the team was ranked sixth in the nation and that was in overtime and the Shockers are now ranked number two in the nation.
Cleanthony Early and Ron Baker along with Fred VanVleet are all playing well this season and they are coming off of a nice win last week and now they have the chance to lock in the undefeated season. Early has been playing very well for the team and back in that overtime game against Missouri State, he had 22 points and 14 rebounds and VanVleet helped the team at the end with 12 points over the final stretch in overtime to get the win.
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