Ron Baker scored 23 points and No. 9 Wichita State bounced back from its first November loss since 2011 to beat Emporia State 76-54 on Saturday.
Landry Shamet and Ty Taylor had nine points each for the Shockers (2-1).
They played without injured senior point guard Fred VanVleet, the preseason Missouri Valley Conference player of the year. He has hamstring and ankle injuries.
Joshua Oswald led NCAA Division II Emporia State (0-2) with 16 points. Charles McKinney scored 10 for the Hornets.
Emporia State did not score for nearly eight minutes early in the first half and Wichita State took control the rest of the game to rebound from a 77-67 loss at Tulsa on Tuesday.
Anton Grady had a three-point play, Baker had a fast-break layup and Taylor hit a 3-point shot in a 64-second span, pushing the Shockers' lead to 13-4 with 13:12 remaining in the half.
Taylor hit another 3-pointer and Baker added a 3-pointer as the lead continued to grow. Two free throws from Zach Brown made it 25-6 Shockers before Emporia State finally made another basket.
A reverse layup from Shamet made it 30-10 Shockers, who had made nine of their previous 11 shots. Wichita State led 38-13 at halftime on 57.1 per cent shooting.
Emporia State had better stretches in the second half. McKinney had a put-back slam and Terrence Sardin made a layup to give the Hornets consecutive baskets for the first time in the game, cutting Wichita State's lead to 48-22.
Oswald had eight points in a 15-3 Emporia State run. The last two came on a layup that narrowed the Shockers' lead to 55-38 with 8:37 to play.
Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall instructed his team to call timeout, a rare move for him before the game's closing minutes.
The Hornets would get as close as 57-41 on Jay Temaat's 3-pointer with 7:40 remaining.
Two baskets from Bush Wamukota extended the Wichita State lead to 65-44. The Shockers would not lead by less than 20 points again.
NO VANVLEET
VanVleet entered the season with a nagging hamstring injury but played in the first two games. In an opening win again Charleston Southern, he played just three minutes before leaving the game with a right ankle injury. A visibly slowed VanVleet played 30 minutes in Tuesday's 77-67 loss at Tulsa, going 3 of 10 from the floor.
Wichita State wanted VanVleet to rest before the AdvoCare Invitational, which starts Thursday in Orlando, Florida. The Shockers will play three games in four days in the tournament.
TIP-INS
Emporia State: The Hornets faced Wichita State for the 70th time but only the second time since 1954. ... Lost an exhibition 80-42 at Kansas State on Oct. 30. ... Terrence Moore, who played at nearby Wichita Heights High School, had nine points.
Wichita State: Marshall won his 400th game as a head coach. ... The Shockers have still not lost consecutive games since February, 2013. ... The Shockers have won 34 straight home games and are 90-8 at home since the start of the 2009-10 season.
UP NEXT
Emporia State hosts Northwestern Oklahoma on Tuesday.
Wichita State plays Southern California Thursday in the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando, Florida.
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