Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
In just a two-day span, Wright State launched its new season against two opponents at the opposite ends of the basketball spectrum.
In Monday’s season opener at fabled Rupp Arena, the bluebloods of Kentucky immediately — in the words of new WSU’s head coach Clint Sargent — “blitzed us and we weren’t ready for that.”
Just 10 seconds into the game, Kentucky’s 7-foot Amari Williams threw an alley-oop pass to 6-foot-11 Anderson Carr for a mighty dunk and the rout was on.
The Wildcats had a double-digit lead in just over 4 ½ minutes and ended up winning, 103-62. It was WSU’s most lopsided loss in nearly three years, going back to a 44-point drubbing at Purdue in November of 2021.
Wednesday night, the Raiders opened their home season against Ohio Christian University — a small NAIA school in Circleville previously known as the Mount of Praise Bible College — which hasn’t had a winning season in seven years and has only one person on the roster over 6-5.
And that player — 6-7 Caleb Schmelzer — picked up two offensive fouls in the first 61 seconds of the game and ended up on the bench.
