Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy doesn’t want his players letting the one-and-done flame-out in the Horizon League tournament diminish what they accomplished this season.
It’s not easy, of course. The Raiders seemed poised not only to reach the NCAA tourney, but perhaps pull off an upset or two.
They went 25-7 overall, 15-3 in the league while winning their first outright title and 9-3 on the road — setting school records in their 33-year Division-I era for regular-season, conference and road victories.
That’s a successful season in anyone’s eyes, even though the 73-56 loss to lightly regarded UIC may sting for a while.
“I told our guys I don’t want anything to take away from the historic season we had and the good light it brought on the university and athletic department,” Nagy said.Only 28 of 353 D-I teams won 25 or more games. And the Raiders had earned a chance to play in the postseason by winning the league’s automatic NIT bid.
But the tourney — like virtually everything else in sports — was called off because of the coronavirus. And the lost opportunity left Nagy miffed.
