Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy can give you a detailed scouting report on Green Bay, his team’s opponent Saturday afternoon, but he can’t tell you what else has been happening around the Horizon League during the non-conference season.
That’s not unusual for him. He operates on a need-to-know basis, focusing only on the game in front of him, and doesn’t care how others have been faring until it’s time to play them.
“When I go home, I’m not watching scores,” he said. “I just know once you start the conference (season), the non-conference doesn’t really matter, what you did.
“Some of it I can’t avoid. But I don’t spend a lot of time looking at it. I don’t even watch that much ESPN. When I go home, I’ve got to get away from it. I’d rather watch a movie than watch a game.”
The Raiders are the preseason conference favorites and shared the title with Northern Kentucky last season. Those two are the only league teams in the top 200 in the NET rankings — Wright State is 111, NKU 116 — and are two of only three teams with winning records along with Youngstown State.
Nagy, though, doesn’t read too much into that, at least in the case of the 5-8 Phoenix.
“Look at how our schedule stacked up against Green Bay — they played a lot tougher schedule. Still, they’re scoring like crazy, and it’ll be as tough a challenge for our defense as we’ve had,” he said.
