Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
It had been a lousy night.
Wright State had shot poorly in its home opener, was outrebounded, turned the ball over a lot, and in the words of coach Kari Hoffman, had “lackadaisical focus.”
Indiana State came into the Nutter Center 0-2 Tuesday night and left with a 68-51 victory. Wright State dropped to 0-3.
And yet, for a few moments after the game, all that was washed away for Claire Henson — the Valley View product who is now WSU’s leading scorer — when she was engulfed by over a dozen family members after she returned to the court, still in uniform, from the post-game locker room.
This was a deja vu moment for all of them.
It’s been a few years since she was a starter, a stalwart of her team, and they were in the stands to see it.
She began her college career about as far from home as you could get.
