Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
If you didn’t know better you’d think the Nagys don’t listen to their fathers.
With just under 30 seconds left in a December game against Mississippi Valley State — a romp where Wright State was leading by 40 points — Andy Neff rebounded a Delta Devils’ miss and threw an outlet pass to fellow walk-on TJ Nagy.
The WSU freshman guard immediately began driving up the court, intent on scoring the first two points of his college career and making amends for four straight free throws he’d missed earlier.
As TJ put a spin move on a defender, his dad — WSU head coach Scott Nagy — was in front of the Raiders’ bench yelling, “Stop!..Stop!…Stop!”
So was TJ’s older brother Nick, an administrative assistant with the team.
They just wanted to run out the clock with some sportsmanship.
“I had no idea the shot clock was off and I couldn’t hear my dad,” TJ recalled the other day. “I was focused and wanted to score so bad.”
After the spin, he momentarily lost control of the ball near the baseline, got it back and in a scrum with three defenders, flicked a fade-away shot that rattled in for the final two points of a 92-50 Raiders’ victory.
When TJ scored, the Raiders bench erupted. Big Grant Basile was on his feet waving a towel over his head and high-scoring senior guard Bill Wampler was rocking back on one leg in joyous celebration as other teammates jumped and cheered alongside him.
