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November 2008
Raiders need to improve, but how?
It’s easy to see what ails the Raiders — poor shooting, diminished rebounding, some problems with defense.
It’s even easier to see what the team will work on in practice this week as its readies for games at the twin Wisconsin outposts — Green Bay on Thursday and Milwaukee on Saturday.
What is unclear is whether any of those ailments can be fixed in the short term.
“We’re not playing well,” coach Brad Brownell said after Saturday’s 19-point loss at Sam Houston State. “We’re not following the defensive game plan. It’s very disappointing.”
This should be a good WSU team. A very good team, even though it lost its two biggest inside starters — Scottie Wilson and Jordan Pleiman — to graduation.
That explains a lot, but it does not fully explain how Todd Brown could go from averaging nearly 13 points to game to not quite four. It does not explain how the Raiders are getting demolished on the boards even though all the replacements for Wilson and Pleiman are bigger and all seem mobile.
On the upside, each of Brownell’s previous two seasons here, the Raiders improved as the season progressed, notwithstanding last season’s three straight losses to end the regular season.
Those losses were by eight, five and two points (in overtime). All last season, the Raiders lost only two games by double figures. They’ve matched that total in the last two games.
Now would be the time to play better. The Raiders have lost four of their last six games in Green Bay, and haven’t won in Milwaukee since Feb. 21, 1998.
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Raiders fall again
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — Things didn’t get any better for the Wright State Raiders Saturday night as they lost for the fourth time in four games.
Most of the way, this one wasn’t even close as the Raiders were drubbed 84-65 by Sam Houston State, which had to break out of its own three-game losing streak.
The loss was the first four-game losing streak at WSU for coach Brad Brownell and was the second-straight double-digit loss for the Raiders, who had only two such games last season.
Worse, the Raiders also lost reserve big man Kyle Pressley, maybe for longer than the second half. Pressley injured his left ankle in the first half and attended the second half with crutches and an ice pack over his ankle.
It can be argued the four losses mean nothing, since they don’t count in the Horizon League. But that changes Thursday when the Raiders open league play at Wisconsin-Green Bay, then go to Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Saturday, two places they lost a season ago.
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First half failure, even with Duggins
Even with Vaughn Duggins reinstated into the starting lineup tonight, Wright State struggled in the first half against Sam Houston State.
Duggins, who sprained his right ring finger in Thursday’s practice, sat out Friday’s practice, and that usually means being out of the starting lineup when Brad Brownell is coaching.
But Brownell already held Duggins out of the starting lineup in Monday’s game with Miami, and he needed some scoring. So Duggins went back into the lineup. The results were good for Duggins, but not the rest of the team. Duggins scored 10 points, almost half of what the Raiders scored as a team in trailing 36-23.
Sam Houston State — which had won 45 straight non-conference home games before losing its last two — moved to a 9-0 lead and led 11-2 when the Raiders staged a comeback.
Scott Grote came off the bench to score three baskets, and the Raiders cut Sam Houston’s lead to a single point twice, 13-12 and 15-14.
However, the Bearkats outscored Wright State 16-7 over the final eight minutes of the first half.
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No brass ring finger for Duggins
I’m not there yet, but Wright State coach Brad Brownell called from Texas with the bad news.
He held this morning’s practice session for the game at Sam Houston State Saturday without junior Vaughn Duggins or sophomore Cooper Land.
Duggins strained the ligament in the ring finger on his shooting (right) hand in practice on Thursday, and Land — the only Texan on the WSU roster — didn’t practice because of stomach flu.
“We’ll have to wait and see with Vaughn,” Brownell said. “I’m not going to put him in harm’s way. But right now, he can’t catch the ball, and it affects his shooting and dribbling.”
As for Land, expect him to be fine, but Brownell puts great stock in practice, and this fall, much like last, has been plagued with injuries. Center Ronnie Thomas, a starter, did not practice Thursday because of back spasms, but was fine today.
Wright State is looking for its first victory of the season after three losses.
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WSU recruit has “good” start
Canal Winchester coach Kent Riggs thought his star player and his team had a “good” start to the season Tuesday, Nov. 25, in an exhibition game with Columbus Northland.
Maybe his remarks were tempered because his team lost, 74-73, in overtime.
It certainly wasn’t Darian Cartharn’s fault.
Cartharn is that 6-foot guard that apparently was overlooked by a number of Division I schools, but not Wright State. The Raiders signed him recently and he’ll be part of their team next season.
Oh, what did he do against Northland and a couple of big-time juniors (6-9 Jared Salinger is committed to OSU and 6-6 J.D. Weatherspoon to Xavier)? Cartharn scored 31 points.
“He shot the ball real well,” Riggs said. “It was a Foundation Game, and I was going to play everybody, but it got real competitive and we had a good crowd. It was a good game for a dress rehearsal.”
If Cartharn continues to score like that, maybe the Raiders should try to get him early.
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Day after means individual practice
It was the day after a Monday night 55-37 loss to Miami, and the Wright State Raiders spent it wisely, lifting weights, watching film and shooting.
Especially shooting.
There was no full team practice at the Setzer Pavilion/Mills-Morgan Center. Groups of three and four players worked out with the coaches, trying to get their shooting touches down.
“Our defense has been pretty good,” coach Brad Brownell said. “But we’re not shooting the ball well and it puts pressure on every shot.”
Wright State shot just 26.5 percent against Miami.
Next up is a game at Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Tex., on Saturday. The Raiders will have a Thanksgiving Day dinner at Brownell’s home, then fly to Texas that night.
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Confidence isn’t missing
Shots are missing at Wright State, not confidence.
And, frankly, why not?
Even though the Raiders are 0-3, they still have barely touched on their non-conference schedule, and even if they don’t win the Horizon League regular-season title, they have a chance to win an automatic bid for the NCAA by winning the league tournament.
That’s a stretch considering their current predicament, but the point is, there’s a lot more basketball to play, even though Wright State is shooting just 34.8 percent as a team.
At least junior Vaughn Duggins isn’t hanging his head.
“We can go on a 28-game winning streak,” Duggins said. “Who knows?”
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Second half no better for Raiders
Nothing picked up for the Raiders in the second half of their game tonight with Miami. They didn’t even make a run at the RedHawks during a 55-37 loss.
For the game, WSU was 13-for-49 (26.5 percent).
Two free throws by Vaughn Duggins nudged WSU only 49-37 with 5:38 to play, and the Raiders didn’t score again on the way to their third loss in three games to begin the season.
It also broke a two-game WSU winning streak over Miami.
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Slow start for Raiders
A late-arriving crowd due to a massive traffic jam didn’t miss much tonight if they were rooting for Wright State.
The fans wouldn’t have recognized the starting lineup, anyway.
Cory Cooperwood and Ronnie Thomas started as usual on the inside, but WSU coach Brad Brownell went with guards Troy Tabler, John David Gardner and N’Gai Evans instead of Vaughn Duggins, Will Graham and Todd Brown as his outside men.
Duggins and Graham were held out of Sunday’s practice due to food poisoning, but there was no immediate reason for Brown to be out of the lineup, other than he missed eight of his nine shots in Saturday’s overtime loss at Central Michigan.
The new lineup fared little better.
The Raiders missed their first four shots and turned the ball over twice to go zero for their first six possessions.
Miami was having similar shooting problems and led just 3-0 during that period, but eventually jumped to a 12-2 lead before WSU caught and passed the RedHawks 13-12 with 8:17 left in the half.
Then the Raiders went dead for nearly eight minutes, scoring only one basket — a 3-pointer by Vaughn Duggins — while Miami ran to a 25-16 lead.
Oh, well. Miami led by 16 at the half last year before WSU came back and won on a 3-point buzzer-beating shot by — Brown.
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Players sick of losing, and other stuff
It wasn’t just the 70-68 overtime loss that turned some stomachs Saturday, Nov. 22, at Central Michigan.
It was probably some of the sausage pizza served on the bus ride home that caused the problems.
“Everybody had some, but not everybody got sick,” said reserve Scott Grote, who said he woke up about 2:30 a.m. Sunday and didn’t really get back to bed. He was, well, you know, along with starters Vaughn Duggins and Will Graham.
All three of the players sat out Sunday afternoon’s practice, but said they’d be ready to go for Monday’s game with Miami. Trainer Jason Franklin said it was just a hit of food poisoning.
With school on break, WSU is offering two tickets for the price of one to tonight’s game and a promise the pizza served at the Nutter Center won’t cause any problems.
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Overtime loss tough to take
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — With a 10-point lead and less than four minutes to play, it seemed like Wright State was well on its way to victory today, Nov. 22.
Well, it didn’t happen that way.
Central Michigan scored the final 10 points in regulation, and Robbie Harman hit a 3-point shot with less than two seconds left to give the Chippewas a 70-68 victory at Rose Arena, keeping Wright State winless in two games.
Todd Brown’s shot from mid-court at the buzzer rimmed the basket. Had it gone in, WSU would have won.
Brown, WSU’s second-leading scorer last season, finished with four points and Vaughn Duggins, the team’s leading scorer, managed only eight as the Raiders were led by Cory Cooperwood’s 16 and N’Gai Evans’ 11.
“They (Duggins and Brown) have to play better for us to win,” WSU coach Brad Brownell said. “We had some open looks late in the game and we didn’t make them.”
There isn’t much time to fret. Miami visits the Nutter Center for a 7 p.m. game Monday.
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School’s out, games are in
Now that final exams are finished, the Raiders went back to two-a-days Friday.
Well, not exactly. There was a light morning practice beginning at nine. By 11, players were starting to board the bus for Mt. Pleasant, Mich., about 9,000 miles from home and close to Sarah Palin’s Alaksa digs, if the weather was any indication.
It was below freezing with some snow flurries.
The Raiders arrived by five, went across the street from their hotel to a steakhouse, then went to the Rose Center for about a two-hour walk-through.
Toward the end, WSU coach Brad Brownell took on sophomore N’Gai Evans in a game of 3-point shooting, and while Brownell appeared to win with a couple right at the end, I’d imagine Evans would have better luck in a game.
Assistant coach Billy Donlon also had a little contest with junior John David Gardner under the boards, with Donlon bouncing a couple in, but again, in a real game, I’m with Gardner.
For more than a month now, it will be all basketball as Wright State is closed until Jan. 5. Saturday’s 2 p.m. game against Central Michigan is one of 14 the Raiders will play before the first day of the next academic session.
In the meantime, “We’ll practice a lot, watch film a lot and shoot a lot,” Brownell said.
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Game time change not for football
in case you were wondering why Saturday’s Wright State basketball game at Central Michigan will be played at 2 p.m. rather than at night, it’s not because nobody thinks fans want to watch this year’s Ohio State-Michigan football game.
It’s because WSU requested an earlier time so the Raiders can return home and prepare for Monday’s game against Miami.
I know, it’s a goofy schedule, but there always problems with scheduling. That’s because every school isn’t on the same academic schedule. Last week was finals week for the Raiders, so no games were scheduled.
Coach Brad Brownell would have liked to schedule Miami for Tuesday, but the Nutter Center is unavailable that night, so Monday became the date. It’s nearly a six-hour bus ride back from Mount Pleasant, Mich., so if Saturday’s game were played at night, the boys wouldn’t be getting home until the wee hours.
Now, they can be home by midnight and have a fine practice Sunday afternoon.
They should be able to handle that. But three weeks from now, the Raiders find themselves at Arkansas-Little Rock on a Friday night and at Wake Forest on the following Sunday.
At least there are no classes to worry about.
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New recruit not so bad
Let’s rule out homicide and say the range of rules you can break in high school run from being late to class all the way to bashing in the head of a city councilman with a beer bottle in a bar on a school night.
That’s the problem with protecting kids with all these privacy laws when they do something wrong. Was he way out over here, or just standing over there? I understand the laws, but sometimes they protect the very worst of the kids, and stain the very best.
I don’t know Tyler Koch at all, but I do know he’s a very good basketball player from Winchester, Ind., and will be coming to Wright State next season. I’ve also been told don’t worry about him causing any trouble. He won’t.
However, he’s also going to miss a few of his senior-year high school games starting now because he broke some kind of school code.
Nothing wrong with codes, and Koch is accepting his punishment. But let’s not stain this kid, especially since the internet is already abuzz that the kid might have had a beer, and anyone familiar with some of our suburbs around here knows high school kids have been known to try that.
You may discount Koch’s coach’s words, since Koch is his best player, but Chip Mehaffey laughed when I asked him if Koch had ever been in any kind of trouble before.
“The kid is as good a kid as I’ve been around,” Mehaffey said. “He’s phenomenal.”
Tom Osborn, principal of Winchester High School, went a little further.
“He’s a great kid, good in school,” Osborn said. “He has not been suspended from school. This is just a disciplinary action. I’ve known Tyler for many, many years. He’s still a part of the team. He’s a great, great kid.”
Unfortunately, our sports world is full of kids who step over the line continually, and we keep giving them a pass. Tyler Koch is not one of those. If he did slip just once, I’m not prepared to put him down for that.
No one else should be, either.
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Raiders sign two
FAIRBORN — As expected, Wright State signed two men’s basketball recruits this weekend, making the announcement today, Nov. 17, that guards Tyler Koch and Darian Cartharn will join the team next season.
Koch is a 6-foot-4, 190-pounder from Winchester, Ind., while Cartharn is 6-0, 180, from Canal Winchester, Ohio.
“What I like about Tyler and Darian is both kids are hard workers,” WSU coach Brad Brownell said. “they didn’t play a lot of AAU ball last summer. They stayed home and worked out in their gyms. And both kids are physically ready to play. They’re both well-built kids.”
Koch averaged 22.5 points as a junior when his team was 23-4 and appeared for the second straight year in the Indiana 2A state championship game.
“A lot of bigger schools were looking at him,” Brownell said, “but they told him they wanted to wait and see what he did as a senior. He came here and liked it. That’s a good (recruiting) step for us.”
Cartharn is more of a sleeper, although at least one recruiting service calls him one of the year’s best finds. Cartharn averaged 10 points for a 21-3 team that had B.J. Mullins, a freshman at Ohio State this season.
Wright State has one scholarship left, but Brownell said he is not close to signing another player at this time.
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Work to be done
Three things struck me as I watched Wright State’s 69-61 opening loss to Illinois State Saturday, Nov. 15.
The first thing was, man, is this team deep. Within 10 minutes, coach Brad Brownell had every player in the lineup, and while the Raiders trailed the whole way, it didn’t look like anybody was going to sit on the bench for long.
The second thing was, can any of these guys rebound? Illinois State looked to have smaller players, but they kept getting to the ball and the Raiders didn’t. It was one of the things Brownell has been fretting about.
Three: Scott Grote. Don’t let opening game jitters fool you. I know he looked bad on three straight turnovers in the first half and was removed from the game, never to reenter.
Don’t worry about him. In another month, expect Grote to be one of the best players on the team. He looks good in practice, and once he gets over missing a couple of weeks with a sore foot, he’ll be fine.
Usually, I don’t like to single out a guy who didn’t play well, but in this case, we’re talking about a guy who clearly is going to get plenty more chances, and should. by the end of the season, he’s a guy you’ll want to see in the lineup.
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Raiders will do well
At the risk of sounding more than a little homerish, I’m going to tell you Wright State’s men’s basketball team is about to take its fans on a very nice ride this winter.
Expect the Raiders to win. Expect them to win more than 20 and to challenge for the Horizon League championship.
If they do as well as I expect, look for them in the NCAA tournament as well.
Oh, I know, they lost their inside game. But there are replacements. Consider this: in the exhibition game against Texas St. Edward’s the other day, favorite son and Centerville grad Scott Grote couldn’t crack the starting lineup.
That may be a surprise to some, who saw Grote average nearly 10 points in his one season at Duquesne. He sat out a transfer season last year, but was hampered by a sore foot this fall, so he’s a little behind his teammates, although watching practice, he seems as confident as he was as an Elks’ senior.
Wright State does have a tough schedule, beginning with the opener against Illinois State. But how do you find out if you’re any good, by playing teams you know you can beat by 20, or teams you know will give you a good game?
Not only do I expect the Raiders to win, I expect them to be entertaining. They can run or play half court, go inside or shoot the three. Are they North Carolina? No. Are they able to beat Cleveland State, Butler and Green Bay in their own conference?
Those are the teams they have to beat to finish with the season I suspect. And I’m saying they can beat those teams.
In November, it’s just a prediction. But if you follow the Raiders this winter, you will be happy you did.
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WSU men’s soccer coach resigns
Press release from Wright State, sent out this morning:
Mike Tracy, who just finished his eighth season as head men’s soccer coach at Wright State, has announced his resignation effective March 31, WSU Director of Athletics Bob Grant announced Tuesday. A national search will be conducted to find Tracy’s replacement.
“It has been a great opportunity to coach at my alma mater, Tracy said. “It was best for the program and for me to move on to new opportunities. Wright State will always hold a special place in my heart, as will the amazing players I have had the privilege to coach.”
Tracy, a 1994 graduate of WSU, has been part of the program as a player, an assistant coach and then was named head coach before the 2001 season as Hylton Dayes left to become the head coach at the University of Cincinnati. He posted three season totals of at least 10 wins, including 12-7-1 his first year when he was named Ohio Division I Coach of the Year.
“I want to thank Coach Tracy for his contributions to the Wright State soccer program dating back to his days as a player and into his coaching career,” Grant said. “He is a consummate professional who I respect greatly. I certainly wish him well in his future endeavors.”
Tracy has coached 21 players to all-league honors, including eight first team performers, and has had three players selected to the NSCAA All-Great Lakes Region Team. In 2006, Braden Fleak was named the Horizon League Newcomer of the Year and selected to the College Soccer News All-Freshman Second Team. Carl Ebers earned the Newcomer of the Year award in 2007, making Wright State the only League school to win back-to-back awards more than once. The Raiders have also had six players selected to the All-Ohio Team during Tracy’s time at the helm.
Tracy’s Records
Year Overall League
2001 12-7-1 4-3-0
2002 8-9-2 4-3-0
2003 10-10-0 3-4-0
2004 7-12-1 3-3-1
2005 10-10-0 4-3-0
2006 8-9-1 1-6-0
2007 8-13-0 3-5-0
2008 6-14-1 3-4-1
Totals 69-84-6 25-31-2
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Raiders plenty deep
We have this thing going, Wright State coach Brad Brownell and I.
I keep telling him his roster is deep and he has a lot of players he can trust.
He keeps telling me he’s a long way from taking Vaughn Duggins and Todd Brown out of the game when it’s on the line at the end.
Well, I’m not going to substitute for those two — or Will Graham or Ronnie Thomas or Cory Cooperwood — with a sophomore at the end, either, but that wasn’t my point.
A year ago, Duggins and Brown each logged an average of 34.6 minutes a game, and by the end of the season, looked pretty tired. What if Brownell could shave two to four minutes off each per game, giving them more rest for the end-season?
He appears to have the players to do that. All 12 played in Monday’s exhibition game against Texas St. Edward’s, and there wasn’t one guy who looked like he didn’t know what he was doing.
How many times have you been to a college game and knew a guy sitting on the bench couldn’t be called upon for only 30 seconds or so? Now look at the Raiders.
Only redshirt freshman Kyle Pressley has had no experience at the college level, and he made both his shots and grabbed a rebound in five minutes of play.
Sophomore Scott Grote, a transfer from Duquesne, played just 13 minutes and recorded five turnovers but also scored four points and had two assists and a steal. He missed a couple weeks of practice with an injured foot, so is a bit behind. He’ll catch up fast.
No, not every one of these players are end-game guys, and there are teams on the schedule more talented. But this is going to be a good team. There doesn’t seem to be any question about that.
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Practice looks good
Just returned from practice. Okay, I didn’t watch all of it, and I did catch about a half hour of the women’s practice. Everything looks good, although you won’t hear the coaches say that too loudly at this time of the year.
The best part of the men’s practice was everyone participated. No one had to sit out because of injury, including junior guard John David Gardner. He’s still battling a sore hip and there is no assurance he will be injury-free the entire season, but one can hope. He will be a significant player if he’s healthy.
Cooper Land also went through a full practice for the first time in a week after spraining his ankle.
On the women’s side, it looks like there’s an inside game to go with the outside game the Raiders had a year ago. Coach Bridgett Williams is particularly impressed with freshman Molly Fox of Nashville, Ind., and Ta-myra Davis, a transfer from Youngstown State. The word she used was “aggressive.”
Fans, of course, will get a preview look in just a few days. The men’s team hosts Texas St. Edward’s in an exhibition game Monday and the women host Findlay in an exhibition on Wednesday. Both games start at 7 p.m.
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Not every young person votes
By watching the political reports on television, you’d think every person between the ages of 18-24 went out to vote on Tuesday.
That’s not necessarily the case, especially if you were a Wright State basketball player. Only four of the 11 players eligible to vote said they did — including senior William Graham, juniors John David Gardner and Cory Cooperwood and sophomore Troy Tabler.
Only Canadian-born Gavin Horne was not eligible.
Although most said they were interested in the election, there were various reasons why they missed voting. Some aren’t into politics and some missed the deadline for absentee ballots. Only sophomore Scott Grote, from Centerville, is registered in the area.
On the coaching staff, head coach Brad Brownell voted, as did assistants Victor Ebong and Mike Winiecki. Billy Donlon said he missed the deadline to register after he found out just having an Ohio driver’s license was not enough.
Meanwhile, on the practice floor, Gardner was cleared to take part in drills Wednesday, Nov. 5, and the staff is cautiously optimistic his foot and hip are healing well enough for him to play this season.
Cooper Land, who sprained an ankle last week, did some exercises, but did not practice. He was not limping, either, and is expected to be ready to play in Monday’s exhibition game against Texas St. Edward’s and his brother senior guard Taylor Land.
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Kellogg a hit at WSU lunch
Clark Kellogg is a star in every sense of the word, and doesn’t act like it.
He was asked to speak at Wright State’s pre-season basketball luncheon Monday, Nov. 3, and asked only that he be able to stay for practice.
He not only did that, he spoke to the team as well.
At the luncheon, he told a few stories, one remembering his first Final Four as a commentator for CBS in 1997.
“We were staying at a downtown hotel and the RCA Dome, where the games were played, was only about 1000 yards away,” Kellogg said. “Our people told me they’d have a car to take me there.
“I said, even on my bad knees, I could walk that. It was only 1000 yards. But when I got outside, there were thousands of fans, and all they wanted to do was talk basketball. And I love to talk basketball. By the time I got to the RCA Dome, I was exhausted.”
He also began taking the car.
Kellogg spends a lot of time attending practices for teams in Ohio and elsewhere. He says he knows when players are listed on rosters at incorrect heights.
“I’m a legitimate 6-8,” Kellogg said. “If you list a 6-6 guy as 6-8 and I get to practice and I’m looking down at his head, I know he’s not 6-8.”
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Behind, with two weeks to go
Wright State basketball coach Brad Brownell did his best to perform a Gloomy Gus impersonation Sunday, Nov. 2, a day after his team played in a controlled, private scrimmage against Eastern Kentucky.
“I can’t say much about it,” said Brownell, citing NCAA regulations mandating this kind of scrimmage to be strictly private. “I just know we’ve had a lot of guys miss practice and we’re a little further behind than I would have liked.”
Twelve players make up WSU’s roster and two of them — guard John David Gardner and forward Cooper Land — missed Saturday’s drills. Gardner has a foot and hip problem. Land had a sprained ankle.
Other players who have missed significant practice time this fall include center Ronnie Thomas, forward Cory Cooperwood and guards Troy Tabler and Scott Grote.
That’s about half the team.
Well, at least none of the injuries appear to be significant, although Gardner’s is troubling. He’ll be checked again this week. As a player, he’ll be a main cog for the Raiders. If he can’t go, it would be a significant loss.
“It’s still really early. We’ve only been doing stuff two weeks,” Brownell said, perking up a bit. “We don’t have the flow yet. We’re still trying to fit people in and see who fits where.”
