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Roger Scholfield was enjoying his summer vacation when a familiar face celebrating an NBA championship got him thinking about Wichita State basketball history.

Watching Landry Shamet win a title with the New York Knicks in June, the lifelong Shocker fan started rattling off the names of other former WSU players who had reached basketball’s mountaintop.

Dave Stallworth. Nate Bowman. Cliff Levingston. Fred VanVleet.

Scholfield thought those accomplishments deserved a permanent tribute inside Koch Arena.

So he picked up his phone and called Wichita State athletic director Kevin Saal with an idea: What if the Shockers had a wall celebrating their world champions?

Saal immediately embraced the idea, and less than five months later, that vision has become a reality.

“When you look at all of the different professional sports, there’s just a lot of Shockers that have done us proud,” Scholfield said. “So I thought it might be cool to have a world champions wall for us to celebrate them.”

The new World Champions Wall, made possible by a gift from the Roger and Jaki Scholfield Foundation, was completed Tuesday night, less than 24 hours before Wichita State’s men’s basketball season opener Wednesday against Cal State Northridge.

Located on the concourse next to the Roundhouse Renaissance display near the ticket office entrance, the sprawling black-and-gold mural features photographs of former Shockers surrounding four panels recognizing championship achievements in basketball, baseball, football and Olympic and Paralympic competition.

Across the center, five words capture its purpose: “Legends Beyond Our City.”

A trip down the Shocker championship rabbit hole

The original idea seemed simple enough. Five former basketball players, a handful of NBA championships and a wall to recognize them.

Then Scholfield got off the phone with Saal.

Wait a minute. What about Joe Carter?

The former Wichita State baseball star had won two World Series championships with Toronto, including his legendary walk-off, three-run home run to clinch the 1993 title against Philadelphia.

And what about Bill Parcells? The former Shocker football player and assistant coach won two Super Bowls coaching the New York Giants.

Suddenly, the five-name tribute didn’t seem nearly big enough.

The more Scholfield and Wichita State’s athletic department researched, the longer the list became.

“It turns out, there’s a lot of world champions that come from the Shockers,” Scholfield said with a laugh.

Baseball alone produced a deep collection of champions, including Charlie O’Brien with the 1995 Atlanta Braves, Braden Looper with the 2003 Florida Marlins and 2006 St. Louis Cardinals, and Doug Mirabelli with the 2004 and 2007 Boston Red Sox.

Some of the discoveries were considerably less obvious.

Take the 2015 Kansas City Royals, whose World Series championship produced rings for three former Shockers.

Brian Flynn spent the season on the injured list, Dusty Coleman appeared in just four major league games and Cody Clark served as a bullpen catcher. All three received championship rings, giving WSU an unexpected connection to Kansas City’s memorable World Series run.

Football produced another extensive list, with 10 former Shockers combining for 16 championships, including Parcells, Jimmy Johnson and James Geathers.

Basketball expanded beyond the NBA to include Warren Jabali, who was named playoff MVP after leading the Oakland Oaks to the 1969 American Basketball Association championship.

Then came connections stretching back nearly a century.

When the United States won the first Olympic men’s basketball gold medal in 1936, former Shockers Jack Ragland and Francis Johnson were on the team, while former Wichita State coach Gene Johnson helped guide the Americans to a 19-8 victory over Canada in Berlin.

The tribute also includes Paralympic champions such as Deja Young and three-time gold medalist Nick Taylor.

What began as a tribute to five basketball players had become a summer-long research project to document generations of Shocker championship success.

A lifelong fan’s gift to Wichita State

For Scholfield, the project was personal.

Born and raised in Augusta, Scholfield’s connection to Wichita State stretches back nearly 60 years. He remembers attending Gary Thompson’s basketball camps at the Roundhouse with his brother in the late 1960s.

He was a fan during the powerhouse years of Antoine Carr, Levingston and Xavier McDaniel in the 1980s, long before Gregg Marshall led the Shockers to the 2013 Final Four and an undefeated regular season in 2014.

Those decades of memories helped inspire a tribute that he hopes will connect generations of Wichita State fans.

After months of planning, Scholfield got a sneak peek at the completed mural Tuesday night and was thrilled with the finished product.

But the wall wasn’t designed simply to celebrate the past.

Wichita State intentionally left empty space on the championship panels, partly to allow for names that might have been overlooked during the extensive research.

But Scholfield sees another purpose for the unfinished lists.

“Hopefully, we get some more world champions on that wall in the future,” Scholfield said. “I think that would be pretty neat if you’re showing a recruit around Koch Arena. Hopefully that wall can inspire them to go to greater heights some day.”

Scholfield hopes fans attending Wednesday’s season opener will take a few moments to visit the new display, study the photographs and discover championship connections they might never have known existed.

And maybe a recruit touring Koch Arena will someday do the same.

The names already on the wall tell the story of where WSU athletes have been.

The empty spaces leave room for where they might go next.