In the dressing room in Dallas after Wright Sate was easily handled by Tennessee, 73-47, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday at the American Airlines Center, Benzinger was talking about the final minute and a half of the game when the end of the bench guys, including his pal, fellow senior Trey Stacey, all got in the game.
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The Wright State women’s basketball team was supposed to breeze through its Horizon League schedule, except when tangling with perennial titan Green Bay. The Raiders were co-champs last season and returned all five first-stringers.
This article by Tom Archdeacon, columnist for the Dayton Daily News, was posted from Dallas, following the Raiders defeat by Tennessee.
Dayton artist Reginald Harmon has gifted a bust of acclaimed poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar to Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives.
Wright State University mechanical engineering student R.J. McCoy helped design a new axle line at Navistar’s truck plant in Springfield as part of an internship
Of the $1 million grant, $630,000 will be designated for scholarships of $5,000 annually for 14 students each year for three years, amounting to 42 scholarships total.
“I’m definitely going to have a lot of family here,” he said. “I don’t know exactly how many, but it’s going to be a lot. I might have a mini student section just for me.”
Tom Archdeacon entices Coach Nagy to reveal what a long string of defeats taught him about basketball and about himself
Raiders NCAA success has produced great publicity. Here are links to ten stories in the Daily News.
We were reminded again last week of the beauty of college sports.