Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
The homecoming felt good and it was painful.
The engaged crowd at the Nutter Center on Wednesday night for Wright State’s season opener came to see how the new-look Raiders would play against a formidable foe that had been a big get for the WSU schedule makers: The Davidson Wildcats, the defending Atlantic 10 regular season champs and an NCAA Tournament team.
Many of the 3,784 fans also were there to see the debut of one of Trotwood’s favorite sons – Amari Davis – finally in a WSU uniform after his college basketball odyssey had taken him to Green Bay for two seasons and last year to Missouri in the Southeastern Conference.
In those three years, he had played 90 college games, started 64 and scored 1,244 points, including 35 the last time he had played in the Nutter Center – a Dec. 27, 2019 game with Green Bay.
“It meant a lot just to play in front of friends and family back here in Dayton,” he admitted after Wednesday’s 101-97 double overtime loss. “My parents were here. So was my sister and my niece, some cousins, uncles, aunties, my grandfather, some old teammates and teachers. Just a lot of people still showing me love.
“It felt like high school all over again, to be honest.”
