Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s season is over.
Barring an invitation to the NIT as an at-large-team — which seems unlikely since the tourney was trimmed from 32 to 16 teams — the Raiders can clean out their lockers and put their uniforms in storage until November.
Other losses through the years may have registered near the max on the pain meter for the program. There was a defeat in the 2014 Horizon League championship game at the Nutter Center with an NCAA berth at stake. The dejection from that one had a long shelf life.
But the 94-92 overtime home loss Tuesday to eighth-seeded Milwaukee — which showed up with a losing record and a NET ranking of 249 nationally — was so unforeseen and ruined such a promising season that it may rise to the top among the most devastating setbacks in the team’s 33-year Division-I history.
As one longtime Wright State follower said afterward, “That might be the worst ever.”
The players walked off in stunned silence — all except sophomore star Grant Basile, who sat, shoeless, alone on the bench for nearly a half-hour.
