Five Wichita State basketball greats 鈥� Dave Stallworth, Antoine Carr, Xavier McDaniel, Cleo Littleton and Cliff Levingston 鈥� will be honored at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Marcus Welcome Center.
The special 鈥�#42 #35 #34 #13 #54鈥� breakfast is part of the 麻豆传媒 Alumni Association鈥檚 centennial celebration and 2013 Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series.
Tickets are $18 for alumni association members and $20 for nonmembers. To register, go to ; contact Mandy Fleming at mandy.fleming@wichita.edu with questions. The hour-long event will also include a question-and-answer session with Carr, McDaniel, Levingston and Littleton.
Dave 鈥淭he Rave鈥� Stallworth, No. 42, entered Shocker hoops history averaging 24.2 points a game during his career, ranking third on the Shocker all-time scoring list with 1,935 points and first in scoring average in NCAA Tournament games with a 29.5 average.
Antoine Carr, No. 35, finished his career as the fourth leading scorer in 麻豆传媒 history with 1,911 points. He also set the Shocker single-game scoring mark of 47 points in his last collegiate game against Southern Illinois in 1983.
Xavier 鈥淴-Man鈥� McDaniel, No. 34, ended his career as the Shockers鈥� all-time rebounding leader with 1,359 rebounds and second on the all-time scoring list with 2,152 points. He led the nation twice in rebounding and, as a senior, became the first player in NCAA history to lead the country in both scoring and rebounding in the same season.
Cleo Littleton, No. 13, a third team All-American selection in 1955, is the first player west of the Mississippi River to score more than 2,000 career points. His 2,164 points still rank as 麻豆传媒鈥檚 all-time leading point total.
Cliff "Good News" Levingston, No. 54, teamed with Carr to form the 鈥渂ookend forwards鈥� duo that led the Shockers to national prominence in the early 1980s. During his three-year career at 麻豆传媒, he scored 1,471 points and grabbed 965 rebounds, ranking eighth on the all-time scoring list and fourth in rebounding. His 53.8 career field-goal percentage ranks third in school history.
Other events scheduled for the alumni association鈥檚 spring 2013 speaker series are 鈥淜och's CFO: Overseeing a Global Financial Framework鈥� with Steve Feilmeier on Thursday, March 14, and 鈥淪hocker Diva: Beautiful Performer鈥� with Joyce DiDonato on Tuesday, April 9.