Wichita State makes it 34-0, wins Valley tourney

 ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Wichita State's still perfect. And proudly awaiting a No. 1 seed.
Wichita State makes it 34-0
After the country's just unbeaten made an alternate set away run in the Missouri Valley Conference competition title amusement, gatekeeper Fred Vanvleet terminated again at cynics who throws slanders on a calendar stacked up 113th in the country.

''You can talk about what you need to verbal confrontation. Truths are realities, truth will be truth,''

''That is for hairstyling parlor talk and end table contentions. We're not into that stuff. Assuming that they feel that path, its on them. What's more no one that is contending about it is on the determination advisory group.''

Players wore title T-shirts that declared Wichita State the champ on the front yet on the back had a section with Indiana State winning.

''They'll get us the right ones in the long run,'' watch Ron Baker said.

In the course of the most recent two days of the competition, mentor Gregg Marshall anticipated a return excursion to St. Louis, for the second and third adjusts of the Midwest Regional.

''We know the schedule, we know the lodging. There won't be any ooh, aah minutes,'' Marshall said. ''It will be only the usual way things work.''

Vanvleet scored 22 focuses including a few key bushel late and the Shockers got their ordinary solid gathering exertion.

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''Each one of them's a handful,'' Indiana State watch Jake Odum said. ''We were in that spot yet they're unbeaten which is as it should be. They stayed made, they hit intense shots, they earned it.''

Tekele Cotton included 20 focuses - with four 3-pointers - and Baker had 14 focuses for the Shockers (34-0), who got tried in the second half before putting the title diversion out of range with a 13-0 run topped by two 3-pointers from Vanvleet that put them up by 18 focuses with 5:38 to go.

''I didn't have enough timeouts to stop the runs, however that is their main thing,'' Indiana State mentor Greg Lansing said. ''That is the reason they're undefeated. That is the reason they're lifting the trophy.''

Wichita State matched the NCAA record for triumphs to begin the season by UNLV in 1990-91 with its third straight persuading competition win in the wake of going 18-0 in the gathering normal season. The Shockers won their first gathering competition since 1987.

''We're not impeccable,'' Marshall said. ''Our record is faultless. We've got extraordinary players. They've tackled an unfathomable ride to this point.''

Manny Arop and Justin Gant had 18 focuses each for second-seeded Indiana State (23-10), which has one of the closer calls against Wichita State with a seven-point misfortune at home in right on time February. Arop totaled 12 focuses the initial two competition recreations.

''Surely we'll get into the NIT,'' Odum said. ''We'll check whether we can make a sprinkle there.''

The Shockers had runs of 17-0 and 24-0 while demolishing Missouri State by 25 focuses in the elimination rounds.

Wichita State's last nine triumphs have all been by twofold digits. The Shockers have won 12 of 14 in the Indiana State arrangement.

''They don't have shortcomings,'' Lansing said. ''Assuming that anyone could see one, I'd get a kick out of the chance to hear it.''

Vanvleet scored 13 focuses in the last 6 minutes and was named to the all-competition group along Cleanthony Early and Cotton, who was voted the competition MVP. Odum additionally made the group alongside Evansville's D.j. Balentine, who scored 61 focuses in two recreations.

The main way the Valley could get two groups in the NCAA competition was if Wichita State lost. The Shockers earned the meeting's immediate offered in the wake of setting off to the Final Four as a No. 9 seed and Valley competition runner-up last March.

Wichita State got some early breathing room with a 11-0 run for a 23-11 lead not long past the mid-purpose of the first half, and headed by no less than nine focuses whatever is left of the half while taking a 39-29 halftime lead. Darius Carter headed the route off the seat with nine focuses and five bounce back in 9 minutes.

Vanvleet hit a layup and Baker had a three-point play in the opening moment of the second half to open a 15-point crevice, then Wichita State went icy missing eight straight shots while Indiana State scored nine straight indicates shave the setback to six. Indiana slithered once again inside five focuses twice, the keep going time on two free tosses by Jake Odum with 10:20 that made make it 55-50.

Indiana State slice the crevice to eight focuses with something like 3 minutes left yet Vanvleet hit a 3-pointer and made two layups whatever remains of the wa
Vanvleet, the gathering player of the year, said after the second-stacked up Shockers beat Indiana State 83-69 on Sunday to head off to 34-0. ''We're not into debating how great or extraordinary we are or how awful another person.