Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s Scott Nagy is an old-school coach, building his program on intensity and competitive fire rather than some newfangled offense.
Those traits show up most often in rebounding stats. And that’s the first place he looks after a game to gauge his team’s performance.
“I know in the history of my coaching career, which is starting to get fairly long, I’ve only had one game where we out-rebounded a team by 20 and lost — and it’s one of two times where I felt like we absolutely got cheated by the officials,” said Nagy, who is in his fifth year with the Raiders and 26th year overall.
“I never say that (about the refs). But I know if we win (the rebounding margin) by 20, we’re going to win the game for sure. Almost always, if you win by 10, you’re going to win the game.”
The Raiders bludgeoned Youngstown State on the boards, 51-29, on their way 93-55 victory Saturday, avenging a two-point defeat to the Penguins about 20 hours earlier.
That was one of many positive signs for the preseason Horizon League favorites, who would have put themselves in danger of falling out of the conference race with another setback.
