Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State was named the preseason Horizon League favorite for the second year in a row, and the players have vowed to handle those high expectations better than they did last season when they finished 21-14.
So far, so good.
Senior wing Bill Wampler scored 16 of his game-high 20 points after halftime, and the Raiders, who let a four-point lead slip away late in the game, rallied for an 85-80 overtime victory at Tennessee Tech on Tuesday.
Freshman wing Tanner Holden had 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting and grabbed 14 rebounds. And junior center Loudon Love, who played just 22 minutes because of foul trouble, finished with 17 points and 10 boards.
The Raiders (3-0) had a 50-32 rebounding edge in notching their second straight road win. They lost all six non-league games away from home last season.
But it took a challenge from coach Scott Nagy at halftime to get them going. They trailed, 31-27, at the break while making just 10 of 28 field goals (37.5 percent).
“In the first half, not only were we playing poorly, but our attitude was awful,” Nagy said on his post-game radio show. “The body language was bad, and everyone was acting like a bunch of big babies. I can be P.C. about it or I can tell you what it was — we just had a bunch of babies.
“I told them at halftime, ‘If you want to be a good team, these are the games you win. When things are going so awful and you’re on the road, you figure out a way to pull together instead of splintering.’ And our guys did that in the second half.”
