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Post by Commissioner on Aug 10, 2019 17:29:39 GMT -5
Wright State beat a team called Senna Basket in its first game in Italy, 81-64. Senior Billy Wampler and freshman Tanner Holden each scored 12 for the Raiders. They won their second game 99-44 over Vincenza Locali. Loudon Love led with 15.
I have no idea what level of competition these teams are.
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 13, 2019 9:32:02 GMT -5
The Raiders wrapped up their foreign tour with a 91-60 rout of a Serbian team called Caffee Ginko (a darn healthy energy drink, too). Skyelar Potter had 17 points and James Manns 16. If Manns, a redshirt soph, actually contributes this year it would be a real boost to the Raiders front court depth and solidify them as the conference favorite.
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Post by ptctitan on Aug 13, 2019 10:43:27 GMT -5
Given that Wright State will have a senior PG in Cole Gentry, an experienced Billy Wampler as an outside shooter, and a more experienced Love at the post, the Raiders should be the early pre-season favorite to win the HL regular season.
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 13, 2019 11:51:16 GMT -5
Given that Wright State will have a senior PG in Cole Gentry, an experienced Billy Wampler as an outside shooter, and a more experienced Love at the post, the Raiders should be the early pre-season favorite to win the HL regular season. Agreed.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 16, 2019 14:09:15 GMT -5
Jeff Goodman talked to Scott Nagy about the WSU trip. From Twitter:
Scott Nagy on Wright State’s trip to Italy:
Standout: FR Tanner Holden - Led team in scoring.
Surprise: “Our defense was good. It usually isn’t this early.”
Learned: “We have freshmen who can have a big impact on a team that has veterans.”
Concern: Taking care of the ball.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 31, 2019 14:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 12, 2019 15:27:19 GMT -5
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Post by ptctitan on Nov 16, 2019 21:16:37 GMT -5
Wright State blew a 16 point lead at home and lost to Kent State 72-71 on a 3 point shot with about 10 seconds left in the game. WSU was up by 9 with 2:41 left. Bad loss for the league.
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Post by ptctitan on Nov 22, 2019 5:34:30 GMT -5
Wright State blew a 16 point lead at home and lost to Kent State 72-71 on a 3 point shot with about 10 seconds left in the game. WSU was up by 9 with 2:41 left. Bad loss for the league. Nah. Wright State losing to Kent State is not even close to a bad loss for the league. Kent State will win 20+ games and finish the year ranked higher than most if not all the teams in the HL. Detroit getting slaughtered by a very shitty Wyoming team is a bad loss for the league. They are hot garbage and will be lucky to win 10 D1 games this year. It's a bad loss for the league because, as a home loss, it counts as 1.5 losses against the NET thereby hurting the league's overall rating. A Raider win over a good Kent State team would have helped the entire league. Since the Raiders are the best team in the HL, the home loss to Kent has hurt the league's rating. In the non-conference schedule, I'm rooting for all HL teams to win. It was disappointing. Guess I should have called it a "horrible loss." That description didn't get any response from the poster.
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Post by upbasketballfan on Nov 22, 2019 8:56:00 GMT -5
Wright State blew a 16 point lead at home and lost to Kent State 72-71 on a 3 point shot with about 10 seconds left in the game. WSU was up by 9 with 2:41 left. Bad loss for the league. Nah. Wright State losing to Kent State is not even close to a bad loss for the league. Kent State will win 20+ games and finish the year ranked higher than most if not all the teams in the HL. Detroit getting slaughtered by a very shitty Wyoming team is a bad loss for the league. They are hot garbage and will be lucky to win 10 D1 games this year. One or two of the lucky 10 wins will be over Wright State unless the Horizon refs. allow a lot of clutching and grabbing.
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Post by ptctitan on Nov 27, 2019 18:53:48 GMT -5
Good win this afternoon by the Raiders without Loudon Love. Good for the HL.
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Post by calihanmole on Nov 28, 2019 9:41:02 GMT -5
A grown ass man has nothing better to do on Thanksgiving than to go to an opposing team’s message board and bitch about our scheduling philosophy. The real tragedy and devolution of this league is not our scheduling of P5 opponents. It’s that we lost the privilege of being affiliated with fine institutions of higher education such as Loyola, Butler, and the other school (the real university) in your town.
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Post by JDetroitTitan on Nov 29, 2019 8:40:58 GMT -5
It's a bad loss for the league because, as a home loss, it counts as 1.5 losses against the NET thereby hurting the league's overall rating. A Raider win over a good Kent State team would have helped the entire league. Since the Raiders are the best team in the HL, the home loss to Kent has hurt the league's rating. In the non-conference schedule, I'm rooting for all HL teams to win. It was disappointing. Guess I should have called it a "horrible loss." That description didn't get any response from the poster. This is the typical problem with the HL going back to the Butler days. All the shitty teams in the league expect the top teams to carry the conference and bitch and moan when the top teams aren't perfect. The REAL problem with the HL is that too many schools don't even come close to carrying their own weight or even worse sabotage the whole league with the way they schedule. I used to bitch about the way Oakland scheduled when they joined the league and now Detroit has taken it to a whole new level. When you put together an impossible schedule against a bunch of power 5 conference teams and get your ass handed to you all it does is hurt everyone else in the league. We are 6-2 right now. If everyone else in the conference put together a winnable schedule and was following suit we could be a top 10-15 conference. That is never going to happen again because there are only 2-3 teams in this shitty conference that get it. Hahaha. The logic behind this statement is got me rolling this morning. Let me get this straight to became a better conference you need to play weak teams so your record looks better. You can dress a pig up but it’s still a pig. If you really think the top three teams are carrying this league you must be joking. The last time this conference had more than one strong team is when more than one team was getting into March madness. The last time this conference had a strong team carrying the conference was when it wasn’t getting blown out in the first round.
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Post by calihanmole on Nov 29, 2019 10:48:32 GMT -5
Yup, I think we all had the same reaction, J. Hahaha. But, trying to explain basic logic to a WSU grad would be like trying to explain to my dog how the internet works, so why bother?
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Post by Commissioner on Nov 29, 2019 12:59:48 GMT -5
This is the typical problem with the HL going back to the Butler days. All the shitty teams in the league expect the top teams to carry the conference and bitch and moan when the top teams aren't perfect. The REAL problem with the HL is that too many schools don't even come close to carrying their own weight or even worse sabotage the whole league with the way they schedule. I used to bitch about the way Oakland scheduled when they joined the league and now Detroit has taken it to a whole new level. When you put together an impossible schedule against a bunch of power 5 conference teams and get your ass handed to you all it does is hurt everyone else in the league. We are 6-2 right now. If everyone else in the conference put together a winnable schedule and was following suit we could be a top 10-15 conference. That is never going to happen again because there are only 2-3 teams in this shitty conference that get it. Hahaha. The logic behind this statement is got me rolling this morning. Let me get this straight to became a better conference you need to play weak teams so your record looks better. Actually, yeah, sorta--at least under the old RPI formula. Why? RPI was based on three ingredients: your own W-L record (25% of total, with road wins counting for more than home wins); your opponents W-L record (50%); and your opponents' opponents W-L record (25%). So the biggest single factor is your opponents combined record. We don't know the exact NET formula, but presumably it has some of the same components. Here's how I described it in another post: Note also that more wins may make it more likely to get into the smaller tournaments (CIT, CBI), which may have some small, positive effect on recruiting. Generally, winning has a positive effect on recruiting and attendance. Beating teams with losing records (as a result of too-difficult non-conference schedules) doesn't excite casual fans, and losing to them looks bad. It's true, getting to the NCAA almost certainly has an even bigger effect. But only one team is going to the NCAA--so if everyone is playing a Mike Davis schedule, 9 teams are hurt and benefits. That's no way to build a conference. I support Mike Davis, and he deserves a chance to turn things around his way. We'll see how it works. But I'm skeptical that scheduling 10 non-conference losses each year is a pathway to success. I honestly think the Titans badly need a year where we come out of the gate 6-0, or 9-1, to start to build a little fan interest, and get players into a culture of winning. The Titan/EMU game, and the outcome of each team's season, will be interesting. Sam pointed out in another post that EMU coach Rob Murphy has taken the opposite approach from Davis--with a young team full of juco transfers, Murphy has his team playing a very easy non-con schedule. Right now EMU is 6-0 against a schedule ranked #317 in the country. They play their first decent opponent--Cal-Irvine, whom we've seen--tomorrow. For the most part, I actually think the Titans have scheduled pretty well over the years--under both Ray and Bacari we usually played one of the tougher non-conference schedules in the league, but didn't go overboard. So we'll see--that's why Davis gets paid the big bucks, and he knows more basketball than I do, to be sure. But it is probably true that several conference teams are scheduling over their heads, it hurts the conference.
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