Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
With apologies to Tom Wolfe — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who penned the much-acclaimed novel “You Can’t Go Home Again” — Tanner Holden believes otherwise.
The fifth-year wing player — after a year’s flirtation at Ohio State — is back at Wright State this basketball season and the reason is simple, he said:
“This is home.”
Last week the NCAA finally granted him a waiver to play for the Raiders this season — a big factor was him returning to the Fairborn campus this summer, taking nine credits and graduating in July — and Tuesday he spoke about all that publicly for the first time.
“When I left here, it was one of the toughest decisions I ever made in my life,” he said of his departure following his much-trumpeted efforts during the 2021-22 season.
He had had three stellar years with the Raiders, winning All-Horizon League honors each season, the last two as a first team all-conference player.
