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Drake vs. Wichita State - Postgame Notes - March 18

TEAM NOTES
  • Drake earned its 26th win, tying the mark for second highest wins in a season by the 1968-69 NCAA Final Four team which posted a 26-5 mark
  • This marked Drake's 70th victory over the last three seasons—the most in any three-year period in school history
  • Drake advanced to the first round of the NCAA Tournament facing No. 6 seed Southern Cal at 3:30 p.m. Central time Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis with the game televised on TNT. It will mark the first meeting between the schools since the Bulldogs beat USC, 80-70, in the quarterfinal round of the 1975 National Commissioners Invitational in Louisville, Ky.
  • Drake is 6-0 in games decided by five or less points this season
  • This marked the sixth time Drake has come from behind to win after trailing by 10 or more points in a game
  • Drake held Wichita State to a season tying low 52 points.
  • Drake junior guard DJ Wilkins held Tyson Etienne, the co-American Athletic Conference Player of the Year with a 17.7 ppg average, to a season-low one point. Etienne was 0-for-6 from the floor.
  • Drake improved its record to 20-1 this season when out rebounding opponents, owning a 38-35 advantage over Wichita State.
  • Drake also pushed its record to 10-0 this season when limiting opponents to 59 points or less.
  • Drake tied a season low with six free throws but remained unbeaten in five games when that occurs.Drake also tied a season low with nine free throw attempts.
  • Drake's 20 first-half points were a season low. The Bulldogs' previous low was 22 in the 51-50 overtime win over Loyola.
  • Drake closed out the first half with a 10-0 run, marking its 14th double-digit run of the season.
  • Drake's 53 points were its second lowest total of season, trailing 51 against Loyola Feb. 14.
  • Drake committed 13 turnovers, surpassing its entire combined total of 10 turnovers (2-Missouri State,8-Loyola) in its previous two games.
  • This marked only the fourth time Drake had shot less than 40 percent in a game (.377), improving its record to 3-1 when that occurred.
  • Wichita State became the second Drake opponent which failed to score any fastbreak points joining Kansas State which was blanked in Drake's season opener.
  • Drake is 10-0 when Tremell Murphy has a game with multiple three-point baskets. He finished with three three-point baskets.
  • Drake is 5-0 when Joseph Yesufu makes three or more three-point baskets in a game. He finished with three.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
  • Joseph Yesufu scored a game-high 21 points,  enjoying his sixth career 20-plus scoring game—all coming in his last eight outings. Yesufu, who scored 14 points in the second half, added two steals, marking his ninth game with multiple steals, including his fourth straight contest. 
  • Tremell Murphy added 11 points, including nine in the second half. Murphy made three three-point baskets. He was one of six beyond the three-point arc in his previous three games.
  • Darnell Brodie grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds, marking his eighth double-figure rebounding game of the season, including his fourth straight contest. He also earned his third multiple blocked shot game of the season with two rejections.
  • ShanQuan Hemphill, the MVC Newcomer of the Year, played for the first time since Feb. 10 against UNI, collecting three points and four rebounds in 10 minutes. Hemphill had missed the previous nine Drake games, while recovering from foot surgery.

TOURNAMENT NOTES
  • Drake, making its fifth NCAA Tournament appearance (first since 2008), earned its first NCAA Tournament win 50 years ago to the date when it beat Notre Dame, 79-72, in overtime in the Midwest Regional semifinal at Wichita, Kan., March 18,1971.
  • Darian DeVries joined Maury John as the only Drake coaches ever to win in their NCAA Tournament coaching debuts.
  • Drake improved its NCAA Tournament record to 6-4 in previous NCAA Tournament appearances, 5-4 in non-consolation games.
  • Drake became the sixth Missouri Valley Conference team to win its opening round game in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 11 seed. Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, MVC teams have never lost an opening game in the tournament as a No. 11 seed: Creighton, 1991, Southern Illinois 2002; UNI & Wichita State 2016; Loyola, 2018 and Drake, 2021.
  • Joseph Yesufu became the eighth player in Drake history to score 20-plus points in the NCAA Tournament with his 21 points ranking No. 6 on the school single-game mark.
  • Darnell Brodie became the 10th player in Drake history to grab 10-plus rebounds in the NCAA Tournament, finishing with 10.
  • Drake set several single-game lows in its NCAA Tournament history: points, game-53; points, 1st half-20; field goals made-20; field goal attempts-53; field goal percentage (tied) .377; free throws made-6; free throw attempts-10; three-point baskets made-seven; three-point shot attempts-19; personal fouls-16.
  • Drake held Wichita State to its lowest single game scoring total in its storied NCAA Tournament history in which it had played 35 games.

SERIES NOTES
  • Drake, playing Wichita State for the first time since 2017, snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Shockers, while earning its first win in  the series since Jan. 28, 2012— a 93-86 triple overtime win in Des Moines. Wichita State leads the series, 104-48
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Players Mentioned

Tremell Murphy

#2 Tremell Murphy

F
6' 6"
Redshirt Senior
Joseph Yesufu

#1 Joseph Yesufu

G
6' 0"
Sophomore
ShanQuan Hemphill

#4 ShanQuan Hemphill

F
6' 6"
Senior
Darnell Brodie

#51 Darnell Brodie

F
6' 10"
Junior

Players Mentioned

Tremell Murphy

#2 Tremell Murphy

6' 6"
Redshirt Senior
F
Joseph Yesufu

#1 Joseph Yesufu

6' 0"
Sophomore
G
ShanQuan Hemphill

#4 ShanQuan Hemphill

6' 6"
Senior
F
Darnell Brodie

#51 Darnell Brodie

6' 10"
Junior
F