Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State drew the only three teams with top-100 NET rankings from last year in the Myrtle Beach Invitational — Princeton (55), Bradley (58) and South Florida (78) — and headed home on their chartered jet with one lopsided win and two intestine-twisting defeats.
The Raiders’ 1-2 record dropped them to 4-4 this season, But after watching how they competed against those high-end mid-majors, anyone connected with the team couldn’t help but feel optimistic about the future.
Once the pain subsides, of course.
“This is a part of coaching sports: You walk away from that thing 1-2, and knowing how well we played, to come away with that record, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” first-year coach Clint Sargent said.
“(But) I think we’re right there. A breakthrough is coming. In my opinion, the program can get back to where we want it to be. We need to learn, in every which way, from the close losses … and that’s taking place. But the question marks of what this was going to be maybe a month ago, I think they’re being answered.”
After blasting Princeton in their opener, the Raiders lost, 77-74, to eventual champion Bradley in the semifinals and fell to South Florida, 73-72, in the third-place game Sunday.
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