Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State teams in the early 1990s were almost entirely offensive-minded without much being demanded of them on defense.
The Runnin’ Raiders of Ralph Underhill knew how to pile up points, averaging more than 90 twice and scoring 89.1 per game in 1992-93 on the way to a Mid-Continent Conference title and NCAA tourney berth.
But they were a fledgling Division-I team then, and that style, while entertaining, wasn’t sustainable. Most assumed it would remain part of the program’s distant past — until resurfacing last season.
The Raiders, who went 18-14, lost to Colorado State, 105-77, in the season opener and to Northern Kentucky, 99-97, in a Horizon League tourney game. And there were plenty of toothless defensive efforts in between.
They also won by scores of 106-98 and 107-99 — games that hardly fit the profile of a program that prided itself on getting stops.
New coach Clint Sargent had a front-row seat for those games as the lead assistant, and he’s had an entire offseason to reflect on what went wrong in coach Scott Nagy’s final year.
