Raiders are finding everyone loves champions
Mar 10, 2007 10:42:57 GMT -5
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Raiders are finding everyone loves champions
The congratulations are coming from 'basically, everybody I've ever spoken to on the phone in my life.'
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Saturday, March 10, 2007
FAIRBORN — It was business as usual for most of the Wright State basketball players after they won the Horizon League tournament championship this week.
It was a lot different for the fans, many of whom waited longer than the players for next week's NCAA invitation.
Will Graham, the sophomore whose four free throws in the final half minute sealed the game against Butler late Tuesday night, went to his psychology perception class Wednesday morning and was asked by his professor — "who looked like he had been up all night" — why he was there.
"I've still got to pass this class," Graham told him.
That's the way it went for the two days WSU coach Brad Brownell told his team to take off before practice resumed Friday.
He even got to yell at them a little, different from what the players heard from other sources.
"A lot of people said stuff to me," senior forward Drew Burleson said. "Basically, everybody I've ever spoken to on the phone in my life. It's just like (fellow senior) DaShaun (Wood) said after the game. They're proud of us."
Senior guard Reinaldo Smith walked into Millett Hall to deliver a paper and came upon a group of people eating lunch.
"This guy I had never met called my name and asked me to join them," Smith said. "I thanked him, but I wasn't hungry at the time."
One English professor stopped freshman reserve Eric Stevenson and told him, "how proud he was of the team and coach Brownell and how the school was doing a lot of things because of the NCAA. He said he was going to our (NCAA) games because before, he hadn't been able to do that."
Junior forward Jordan Pleiman of Fort Loramie said he heard from the athletic director of a rival high school, "and I'm getting messages from a lot of people I don't even know."
Even Brownell is hearing from people he didn't expect.
"I heard from 7-8 guys who took a class from me when I was the third assistant coach at North Carolina-Wilmington," Brownell said. "I don't even remember who they are. But they wanted me to know they enjoyed watching us. That's pretty neat."
Contact this reporter at 937-225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.
Raiders are finding everyone loves champions
The congratulations are coming from 'basically, everybody I've ever spoken to on the phone in my life.'
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Saturday, March 10, 2007
FAIRBORN — It was business as usual for most of the Wright State basketball players after they won the Horizon League tournament championship this week.
It was a lot different for the fans, many of whom waited longer than the players for next week's NCAA invitation.
Will Graham, the sophomore whose four free throws in the final half minute sealed the game against Butler late Tuesday night, went to his psychology perception class Wednesday morning and was asked by his professor — "who looked like he had been up all night" — why he was there.
"I've still got to pass this class," Graham told him.
That's the way it went for the two days WSU coach Brad Brownell told his team to take off before practice resumed Friday.
He even got to yell at them a little, different from what the players heard from other sources.
"A lot of people said stuff to me," senior forward Drew Burleson said. "Basically, everybody I've ever spoken to on the phone in my life. It's just like (fellow senior) DaShaun (Wood) said after the game. They're proud of us."
Senior guard Reinaldo Smith walked into Millett Hall to deliver a paper and came upon a group of people eating lunch.
"This guy I had never met called my name and asked me to join them," Smith said. "I thanked him, but I wasn't hungry at the time."
One English professor stopped freshman reserve Eric Stevenson and told him, "how proud he was of the team and coach Brownell and how the school was doing a lot of things because of the NCAA. He said he was going to our (NCAA) games because before, he hadn't been able to do that."
Junior forward Jordan Pleiman of Fort Loramie said he heard from the athletic director of a rival high school, "and I'm getting messages from a lot of people I don't even know."
Even Brownell is hearing from people he didn't expect.
"I heard from 7-8 guys who took a class from me when I was the third assistant coach at North Carolina-Wilmington," Brownell said. "I don't even remember who they are. But they wanted me to know they enjoyed watching us. That's pretty neat."
Contact this reporter at 937-225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.