Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
On the eve of what could be a historic day for Wright State athletics, Bill Wampler was talking love and hoops.
“She’s the most understanding girlfriend I’ve ever had,“ Wampler said Monday night. “For one thing, she’s been in the same situation I’ve been in my entire life.
“She understands basketball – whether it’s practice or what goes into a game – and how that often comes first. Not a lot of people would understand that. But she does.
“She understands everything I’m going through.”
His girlfriend is Emily Vogelpohl, one of the stars of the Raiders women’s team, and now, more than ever, she understands what he’s going through.
And Wampler, the second-leading scorer on the men’s team, knows what she’s facing, too.
At noon today Vogelpohl and the WSU women meet Green Bay in the championship of the Horizon League Tournament at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The winner advances to the NCAA Tournament.
Then at 7 p.m., Wampler and his Raiders teammates face Northern Kentucky in the title game of the men’s tournament. That winner goes to the NCAA Tournament, as well.
In the history of the program, the WSU women have sent just one team – in 2014 – to the NCAA Tournament
Since it became a Division I program with the 1987-88 season, the WSU men have had three teams in the Tournament: 1993, 2007 and last season.
