Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The numbers in the Wright State men’s basketball win-loss columns appear transposed. Three wins and seven losses are not normal.
As a result, Scott Nagy’s team has struggled to play confidently.
“None of them have lost in high school and none of them have really lost in college, and all of the sudden we’re going through this stretch and heads are spinning right now,” Nagy said.
The heads are spinning less after Saturday’s 72-63 victory over Tennessee Tech at the Nutter Center. The rising confidence comes from starting to play the kind of defense Nagy demands, and a road trip to another Power 5 team might show just how far the Raiders have come since losing five straight and seven of eight.
The Raiders play at North Carolina State of the Atlantic Coast Conference at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Wolfpack are 7-5 and two games removed from an overtime loss to then-No. 1 Purdue on a neutral court. A month ago the Raiders went to Purdue and lost 96-52.
“We’re probably a lot more confident now than when we went in to play Purdue,” Nagy said. “We’re in a better position to go play a game like this. So we’ll go play it, and we’ll see.”
