Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State has been manhandling opponents on the boards this year, putting together an average rebound margin of plus-6.3 per game.
But most of that was amassed before All-Horizon League center Loudon Love was sidelined with an elbow injury, and Indiana State exploited the Raiders’ youth and inexperience in the post.
Out-rebounding their hosts, 49-32, Indiana State skipped out of the Nutter Center with an 84-77 overtime win Saturday afternoon. And while their frontcourt was having their way inside, guards Cooper Neese and Jordan Barnes were torching their defenders from outside.
Neese scored 25 points with five 3-pointers and Barnes had 22 with three. They were averaging a combined 24 points.
The Sycamores (5-4) are shooting a nifty 41.8 percent on 3-pointers.
“It’d be nice if we had three Jaylons where we could cover the perimeter better,” Wright State coach Scott Nagy said, referring to defensive ace Jaylon Hall. “But we have smaller guards, and you have to pick your poison who you put them on. Neese benefited from that because he had smaller guards on him most of the night.”
When their only current post players — redshirt freshman Grant Basile and sophomore James Mann — got into foul trouble in the first half, the Raiders had to go with an all-perimeter lineup.
