LOS ANGELES — Come Thursday night, either No. 9-seeded Wichita State or No. 13-seeded La Salle will advance to the Round of 8, to the West Region finals. This is inevitable. Either the Shockers or the Explorers will advance, no matter how obscure their universities, or their mascots, may be.
La Salle's three star guards, Ramon Galloway, Tyreek Duren and Tyrone Garland, were asked Wednesday: What did they know about the city of Wichita? Or the state (Kansas) in which the Shockers play? Had they ever been?
Galloway said, "No, I don't know."
Duren said, "No, I've never been to Wichita."
Galloway chimed back in, "I don't even know where it's at."
Garland said, "I saw a story down here called, Which Wich."
Then, they were asked if they knew which state Wichita was in.
Neither Garland nor Galloway knew. Duren mentioned how their teammate, Steve Zack, had pointed out the Wichita exit on their way to the airport, leaving Kansas City, Mo., where they played their Round of 64 and Round of 32 games last week.
Later, at the Wichita State news conference, the Shockers were asked where La Salle was.
"Philly, right?" Malcolm Armstead said. "I think it's Philly."
Bingo, he was correct. He was told that the La Salle players did not know where their university was located, and Cleanthony Early responded, "I didn't know where Wichita was either before I went there."
Early, a Middletown, N.Y., native and the Shockers' leading scorer, added that when he first heard of Wichita State, he could not pronounce it correctly, either. Of course Early learned, but first, like many nonpartisan fans will do this week, he had to do his research.
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