Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State had one of its sputtering starts that have become commonplace at home in the first of back-to-back games.
Robert Morris built an early 10-point bulge, and the Raiders shot a gruesome 17.6% in the opening 10 minutes while making just 3 of their first 17 flings.
The Horizon League’s last-place team — playing without the conference’s top scorer in A.J. Bramah — would surrender its lead but then fought back to tie it at 23.
Raiders coach Scott Nagy isn’t one to call momentum-slowing timeouts — he prefers to let his veteran squad fight its way through rough patches — but he took full advantage of a media stoppage late in the first half to give his players an earful.
“For the most part, I thought they played harder than we did,” he said. “They were missing some people, their best player, a potential MVP guy. Particularly in the first half, they were desperate and we were comfortable. It was very clear. They were out-rebounding us.
“Offensively, that wasn’t the problem for us. We were fine. Defensively, we weren’t any good at all compared to what we’re used to.”
