Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
It’s the trip he can’t wait to make.
Italy?
But no!
It’s not Italy.
After all, that’s where he and the rest of the Wright State team will travel to on Aug. 2 for a 10-day tour that will take them to Milan, Venice, Florence and Rome.
While Aleksandar Dozic certainly is looking forward to the trip — besides seeing the sights, playing three games against Italian teams and bonding with his new teammates, he might be able to see his parents should they make the 80-minute flight to Rome from his home in Montenegro — that is not the destination he most wants to get to with his fellow Raiders this season.
That trip, he hopes, will come 7½ months from now.
It’s one he was unable to make while spending four seasons and playing in 83 college games at two other schools — Marshall and Marist — before coming to Wright State this summer as a grad student transfer.
“It’s my fifth year, my last year, and I wanted to come somewhere where we had a chance to get to the NCAA Tournament,” the 6-foot-9 Dozic said as he sat just off the Mills Morgan Center court after practice the other day. “I want to go to March Madness.
“That’s why I chose Wright State. This team is stacked this year. It probably will be picked to win the league and I want to be part of that.”
