Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Before starting a road trip against the Horizon League’s two Wisconsin teams this week, Wright State coach Scott Nagy did something he hasn’t been able to do all that often this season: He complimented the defense.
After waving off a question about the regular-season title chase, he said: “I’m just glad we’re playing better defensively. We put up a chart in our locker room (in January), and we were 11th out of 12 teams in the league in defensive efficiency, and we’ve moved up to sixth and aren’t far from third.
“I tell the guys, ‘You see us moving up in that, we’ll move up in the standings.’”
The Raiders were miserly again on defense against Green Bay, holding their hosts to just eight points in the first 12 minutes of the second half, and rolled to a 79-62 victory Wednesday to move into second place in the league.
Since giving up 90 points in a three-point loss at Youngstown State on Jan. 15, they’ve held their last eight opponents to an average of 64.8 points.
“At the 12- or 14-minute mark (of the first half), we just kept getting stop after stop after stop,” Nagy said on his post-game radio show. “We shot the ball well tonight, had a high percentage in the second half (65%).
“This was easily a game we could have been flat. We started the game very well. Our kids were locked in and ready.”
