Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Loudon Love never looked at himself as someone who would flirt with career records at Wright State when he first arrived on campus. The 6-foot-8 center weighed 300-plus pounds then. He was just hoping he could develop into a Division I basketball player.
But he worked diligently to reshape his body while redshirting his first year. And after a promising maiden season when he was named Horizon League Freshman of the Year, he began setting long-term personal targets.
“After my freshman year, I lined up some career goals — like trying to get to 2,000 points, although I’ll probably be short of that with some of the illnesses and injuries I’ve had. The other half of that was to get 1,000 career rebounds,” he said.
“I’ve never really looked at the (all-time) stats, but I know I’m getting close to my goal. There’s been a lot of great basketball players at Wright State. If I get to join them somewhere in there or even surpass them, that’s a great honor.”
The fifth-year senior from Geneva, Ill. — now a fit 255 — averaged 15.9 points last season, giving him 1,365 for his career. Bill Edwards' record of 2,303 was always out of touch, but 2,000 would have been reachable if Love hadn’t missed 15 games for various ailments, including six a year ago with a fractured elbow.
If the Raiders play 27 games, the NCAA regular-season maximum, Love would need to average 18.0 to surpass DaShaun Wood for No. 2 on the all-time points list with 1,850.
