Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The Wright State basketball team was expected to make a sizeable jump this season with the return of four starters and every significant sub.
Having Tanner Holden back in the mix will hike expectations to an entirely new level.
The fifth-year senior wing — a two-time first-team All-Horizon League pick — was granted a waiver by the NCAA and will be eligible this season, turning the Raiders from a conference contender into perhaps one of the best mid-major teams in the country.
“Mostly, we’re just happy for him,” coach Scott Nagy said. “If he wouldn’t have gotten a waiver, I wouldn’t say he’d be wasting a year of his life, but it would have put his life on hold almost.
“The NCAA, if you’re worried about student-athlete welfare, I think this was an easy one.”
NCAA transfer rules allow players to change schools once without sitting out a year, but not twice.
