Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State rallied, dominated then held on for a victory in the Horizon League women’s basketball tournament championship Tuesday afternoon.
The reward for the Raiders’ 55-52 win over Green Bay: Another trophy for the case, and a trip to the NCAA tournament.
Wright State won the Horizon League women’s tournament for the second time in program history.
The other was five years ago when they downed the Phoenix in Green Bay to earn the only other NCAA tournament bid in school history.
Wright State head coach Katrina Merriweather was an assistant for the Raiders then, so she had seen up close what it takes to get to the top.
“We talk about it being a 40-minute game and a 40-minute game plan and you’ve gotta grind it out,” Merriweather said. “You’ve gotta defend. You’ve gotta rebound. And when the shots fall of course it’s much easier, but all we want to do is be the tougher team for 40 minutes, and we did that.”
After top-seeded WSU fell into an early hole, Symone Simmons hit a 3-pointer at 8:21 of the second quarter to put the Raiders on top 12-11.
That was part of a 15-0 run that covered nearly eight minutes and left regular season champion Wright State on top 20-11.
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