Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State took a season-best four-game winning streak to UIC and had a prime opportunity to gain ground in the Horizon League race Friday, knowing first-place Northern Kentucky had already suffered a loss earlier that night.
But the Raiders were hounded by the ultra-quick Flames into their worst shooting display of the season in a 67-53 defeat, falling to 12-11 overall, 6-4 in the conference and 3-9 in road and neutral-site games.
They were 16 of 57 (28.1 percent) from the field and 3 of 19 (16.7) on 3’s, and it was a team-wide meltdown.
Sophomore center Loudon Love, a preseason first-team all-league pick, had his ninth double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds. But he was 5 of 20 from the field, many of his misses coming from point-blank range.
Junior point guard Cole Gentry scored 10 points and went 4 for 4 from the foul line to extend his streak to 43 in a row, four off the school record. But he went 3 of 11 from the field and 0 of 5 on 3-pointers as the Raiders failed to generate much of anything from the outside.
UIC (10-11, 5-5) shot 46 percent from the field and 38.1 on 3’s.
“We’ve done this before where we were bad (offensively), but we didn’t let it affect us — like the Milwaukee game. But tonight, it affected us,” Nagy said on his post-game radio show. “We weren’t very good defensively when we needed to be. You could see it in our guys’ body language. They just couldn’t get past it.”
