Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
It was their first “Home Sweet Home” appearance of the year for the Wright State women’s basketball team, but their Nutter Center court turned out to be no more accommodating than the first four stops they’ve made in a brutal road schedule to start the season.
The Raiders lost to visiting Xavier, 62-47, Wednesday and fell to 0-5 on the season.
Their first four games were losses at Bradley, Toledo, Milwaukee and Green Bay. Next Tuesday they’re on the road again at Marshall and before Christmas they also play at Abilene Christian and Indiana.
The losing is tough to take for both WSU’s new coach, Kari Hoffman – who won 106 games the past five seasons at Cedarville and before that was a Hall of Fame player there – and for the Raiders, especially the retuning players who have been part of a program that’s had eight straight winning seasons and made three NCAA Tournaments, including two in the last three years.
Last season the Raiders knocked off Arkansas in the Tournament’s first round.
But this year the Raiders -- who lost some of their star players when coach Katrina Merriweather left for Memphis – are struggling to play as a team, shoot and take care of the basketball.
