Excerpt from the San Diego Union-Tribune
Well, at least it got interesting.
And it almost got really interesting.
With just more than 14 minutes to play Friday at Viejas Arena, Wright State, a No. 16 seed that had to win a play-in game two nights earlier just to earn the right to play Arizona, trailed the top-seeded Wildcats by just eight points.
The Raiders had the ball and Trey Calvin had a great look at a 3-pointer, and with the ball in the air, the non-Arizona portion of the crowd prepared to get loud in support of the underdog.
The shot missed. The crowd groaned.
Barely a dozen seconds later, Dalen Terry made a 3-pointer for the Wildcats. A Wright State turnover and an alley-oop to 7-1 Christian Koloko made it a 13-point lead.
“We didn’t win the game,” coach Scott Nagy said. “But what was nice for me is in the timeout (when it was 50-42), I just looked at the players, all I said was hey, and they all shook their head, we got it, Coach, now we can play. And that was a good moment for me. I didn’t have to say anything. All of a sudden they were excited.”
