Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Scott Nagy may be known as a defensive-oriented coach — his post-game press conferences almost always begin with a critique of his team in that department — but Wright State reached new heights as a program last season mostly because of its prolific offense.
The Raiders averaged 80.6 points, which was seventh nationally and their best mark since the 1992-93 squad put up 89.1 per game.
In Nagy’s three other seasons at the school, they averaged 73.2, 71.4 and 77.0. In the 14 years before he arrived, they never averaged more than 68.5.
They’ll have to replace two of their top four scorers in 2020-21 — Bill Wampler (15.6) and Cole Gentry (10.8) — and while they have plenty of firepower coming back, they may not be able to top the 80-point plateau again.
But that doesn’t mean they can’t duplicate the success they had last season and maybe even surpass it — though they might go about it in a sightly different way.
“Offensively, I’m a little unsure of where we’ll be. It’ll be hard to beat last season — we were pretty good,” Nagy said. “But I think our defense and rebounding will be better. We’re going to be bigger. We’re going to be more physical.”
