Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Scott Nagy felt something was amiss in practice this week, but he couldn’t have anticipated what happened in his team’s Horizon League opener Thursday night.
The Raiders were coming off a fairly impressive showing in Las Vegas, winning two of three games against foes that combined for 66 wins last season.
And though Nagy would never say it, their opponent usually resides among the league’s bottom-dwellers, finishing 12th and 10th in its two seasons so far.
But in a result that probably will look like a misprint to their league rivals, the Raiders were blown out at home by Robert Morris, 80-59 — their first loss in seven meetings with the Colonials.
The visitors shot 52.5% from the floor, went 9 of 17 on 3′s and had a 33-23 rebounding edge as the defending league champs look flatter than a newly paved road.
“Andy just did a lot better job getting his kids ready,” Nagy said of opposing coach Andrew Toole. “They were hungry, and we weren’t. It was one hungry team, and one team full of fat cats.
