ATLANTA-- Fast Fact: What's a Shocker? Ohio State found out.  As
the lowest seed still playing -- and one of the lowest ever to
reach the final weekend -- Wichita State's nickname is
appropriate.  But where did "the Shockers" come from?
University lore traces the name to 1904, when a football manager
called the team as the "Shockers" to drum up interest in a
gridiron matchup with the Chilocco Indians.  He reportedly chose
the name because many players spent the offseason harvesting or
"shocking" wheat in fields surrounding Wichita.  Wichita State
bills its costumed mascot WuShock -- who bears a resemblance to
a giant, more-intense Bart Simpson -- as "a big, bad, muscle-
bound bundle of wheat."