Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
So this is how Cinderella must have felt when the clock struck 12 and the carriage turned back into a pumpkin.
“I’m happy, but I’m sad and mad at the same time. I’m mad the game ended,” Andrea Holden said Thursday night after Wright State overwhelmed Green Bay, 74-51 at the Nutter Center. “I just wanted to keep playing. I didn’t want the night to end.”
The glass slipper girl didn’t have a better coming out party than did the Raiders 6-foot-6 freshman forward from Hamilton High School who made his college hoops debut in glorious fashion.
After spending WSU’s first 15 games of the season as a redshirt, Holden finally was invited to the hoops party against the Phoenix and quickly became a Cinder Fella.
He made 5 of 6 field goal attempts for 11 points, while grabbing seven rebounds, making three steals and blocking two shots — all in just over 21 minutes.
Most of all, he infused life into his team, which had been struggling through a three-game losing streak that helped account for their disappointing 7-8 record coming into the game.
