Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Miami second-year coach Travis Steele knows Wright State has had an erratic opening month, but he expects the ragged start to become a dim memory by the end of the season.
Despite a roster loaded with veterans, the Raiders are 4-6 going into a home game Tuesday with the youthful RedHawks, who are 4-5.
“It’s probably hard for a lot of fans to recognize this, but for the Horizon League and the MAC, the thing that matters is the conference, playing your best basketball at the right time of the year,” Steele said.
“Obviously, everyone wants to win every game. But at the same time, there’s an art to it. And coach (Scott) Nagy has really perfected that in his tenure at Wright State. He challenges himself in the non-conference. And they play their best basketball in March.”
Steele, who went 70-50 in four years at Xavier, actually looks at Wright State as a model for his program.
“He’s going to play a schedule that gets them ready to compete for a Horizon League championship,” he said of Nagy, “and we’re taking the same approach here.
