Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State lost star center Loudon Love for almost the last nine minutes of the game, shot just 39.3 percent from the field and was outscored 15-2 over a key second-half stretch.
But despite looking wobbly at times on the road, the Raiders turned a dogged defensive effort and stellar free-throw shooting into a 65-61 win over Milwaukee on Friday to improve to 19-4 overall and 9-1 in the Horizon League, matching the best conference start in their Division-I history.
They also went 9-1 in 2017-18 before suffering their second league loss in their next game.
The Panthers (10-12, 5-5) had just 19 points in the first half and didn’t reach the 20s until nearly two minutes into the second half. They went 3 of 20 on 3-pointers and 25 of 61 overall (41%).
“I’m really proud of them,” coach Scott Nagy said of his players on his post-game radio show. “It wasn’t perfect. It was ugly. But defense travels, it just does. And we were good defensively.”
Ranked 302nd nationally in foul shooting at 65.9%, the Raiders went 8 of 10 in the final 3:15 and made 19 of 26 overall (73.1%).
