Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy is still trying to adjust to how hard it’s become to keep a team together now that players are allowed a one-time transfer without sitting out and Name, Image and Likeness money is readily available.
And when it hits close to home, it’s especially painful.
Nagy was still recovering Wednesday over news that star center Grant Basile — a two-time second-team All-Horizon League pick and former all-freshman team member — was entering the transfer portal.
The fourth-year junior will have two years of eligibility at his next school.
James Manns, a seldom-used forward, also is looking to play elsewhere for his final season, but he’d already made his intentions known by being part of the Senior Night ceremony last month.
“It hurts. I wouldn’t be honest if I said otherwise,” Nagy said of losing Basile. “We poured a lot of time into him and he into us. It’s a real shock.
“But I don’t put much time into thinking about where he’s going or what he’s going to do. I’m locked in, and it lights a fire under me.”
