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Here is the list of teams going on foreign trips this season. It's at the bottom of the article:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketb ... basketball

For the WSU Shockers they will face in non-conference games the following:

Northern Colorado (Australia
Charleston Southern (Dominican Republic)
VCU (Italy)
Tulsa (Canada)
Tennessee (Italy)

Then everyone in the MVC will face (twice):

Indiana State (Bahamas)
Missouri State (Costa Rica)

Bears beat the Costa Rica national team 85-38 in their first game yesterday. Doubt the team was any good at all but with all the new guys it is nice just to get some practices and games in.

Scoring from yesterday

FR Dorrian Williams 13pts 3ast
FR Michael Simpson 11pts 6rbs
Anthony Downing 10pts 3rbs 6ast
Keith Pickens 10pts 2rbs 4ast
FR Marcus Marshall 9pts 6rbs 5ast 0to

Bears won second game of trip 97-39...again these teams probably suck but just good to get the extra time in.

Anthony Downing 17pts 2ast 4stls
Christian Kirk 16pts 11rbs
Marcus Marshall 14pts 3rbs 3ast 7stls
Bruce Marhsall 10pts 9rbs

It's been a great trip so far for Missouri State. They were a bit unlucky this year in that the top 4 teams in Costa Rica are all playing for a championship and aren't available to play Mo State. As a result, the Bears have played a couple second division type teams.

Game #3...sat Downing and Pickens this game. Won 83-42 and frosh Marcus Marshall started in Downings place and had 11pts 6rbs 8ast 3stls 1to. Other stats

Bruce Marshall 14pts 3rbs 3stls
Christian Kirk 13pts 2rbs
Drew Wilson 11pts 8rbs
Gavin Thurman 10pts 6rbs

Game #4 Bears won 77-43 without Pickens or Downing playing...concrete court and didn't want to risk.

Christian Kirk 16pts 10rbs
Gavin Thurman 13pts 8rbs
Michael Simpson 13pts 4rbs 3ast
Drew Wilson 12pts 8rbs

FWIW to Missouri State fans...the whole MSU group was a class act in Costa Rica. Coach Lusk and the players did a great job working with young kids during some clinics, visiting a special needs hospital, and just handling themselves with class.

You see from time to time (Mizzou and KSTate this year) where teams/coaches act like fools when they travel out of the country. Not the case with Lusk and the Bears. They used the trip for exactly the purpose it was designed for.

tribecalledquest wrote:FWIW to Missouri State fans...the whole MSU group was a class act in Costa Rica. Coach Lusk and the players did a great job working with young kids during some clinics, visiting a special needs hospital, and just handling themselves with class.

You see from time to time (Mizzou and KSTate this year) where teams/coaches act like fools when they travel out of the country. Not the case with Lusk and the Bears. They used the trip for exactly the purpose it was designed for.

Thank you and I really like the kids Coach Lusk has recruited into the program.

Now that the overseas trips have been completed I thought it would be interesting to see how they did this year. As a comparison, here is how just the MVC did last year: Northern Iowa (5-0), Creighton (4-0), Wichita State (3-2), Illinois State (2-2), and Drake (1-3). So the MVC went 15 wins (68%) and 7 losses (32%).

This year Missouri State went 4-0 in Costa Rico and Indiana State went 3-0.

Our Non-Conference opponents went as follows: Tennessee went 4-0 in Italy, VCU went 4-0 in Italy, Charleston Southern went 3-0 in the Dominican Republic, Tulsa went 3-1 in Canada, and Northern Colorado went 2-2 in Australia.

So in total they went 23 wins (88%) and 3 losses (12%).