Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
March success doesn’t seem that long ago for Wright State’s men’s basketball team. The Raiders got to 22 wins after a slow start, won the Horizon League tournament and made the short drive to UD Arena for the first NCAA Tournament victory in school history.
But there’s no more talk of that as the eight-week summer practice period winds down. Coach Scott Nagy wouldn’t want it any other way.
“Last season’s over,” he said. “Nobody’s spent any time talking about that, other than we obviously use the past success in recruiting. But for this team that’s here now there’s been zero time spent talking about that.”
But that doesn’t mean Nagy didn’t wonder about the effect.
“Coming off of how we ended the season last year, it’d be easy for people to take a breather,” he said. “But I think the guys are pretty hungry.”
The past success had a positive effect in recruiting high school players and the transfer portal. The Raiders lost leading scorers Tanner Holden (Ohio State) and Grant Basile (Virginia Tech) to the portal, but they went out and got Trotwood-Madison graduate Amari Davis from Missouri and Blake Sisley from Evansville to go along with freshmen guards Logan Woods from Fairfield, Drey Carter from Westerville South and walk-on Anthony Johnson from Fairmont.
“It’s fun because it brings a little bit of a challenge trying to put all the pieces together, and it makes it more rewarding,” said senior Tim Finke, the Raiders’ best defender and leader in minutes played last year at 36.1. “They all bring their own unique skill set, and it’s cool to see how it all blends together.”
