Right choice: Duggins playing well for WSU
Dec 15, 2006 1:00:42 GMT -5
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Right choice: Freshman Duggins playing well for WSU
After a complicated recruiting process, both coach and basketball player are happy with his start at Wright State.
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Friday, December 15, 2006
FAIRBORN — Even when a season gets off to a slow start — as this one has for the 3-4 Wright State Raiders — there are players who shine through the murk.
As the men's basketball team readies for its second home game, Saturday against Bowling Green, it's obvious that senior DaShaun Wood is producing another fine season. He showed his worth again Wednesday, scoring 24 points in a 79-72 loss at Marshall.
Wright State's second-leading scorer in that game was 6-foot-3 freshman guard Vaughn Duggins, a player coach Brad Brownell had to recruit twice.
Duggins, from Pendleton, Ind., originally committed to Brownell when he was coaching at North Carolina-Wilmington. When Brownell and his staff moved to WSU last March, Duggins dumped Wilmington and committed to Brownell again, although there were some anxious moments.
Duggins made the Indiana All-Star team, which annually hosts a Top 40 workout and games for coaches at an Indianapolis gym.
On this particular spring day, Brownell and his staff noticed Indiana's Kelvin Sampson and Purdue's Matt Painter also watching.
"They were there to see Vaughn," Brownell said, "and he didn't have a great day. He wasn't bad, but he wasn't great, and that was good for us."
Still, Duggins was offered a "walk-on" position with Indiana, but he decided to keep his commitment to Wright State.
"Leaving Wilmington opened up my recruiting," Duggins said. "I definitely started looking here, but I was (also) trying to prove something, that I could play at the Big Ten level.
"I didn't have it that day (at the workout). I just didn't score, and that's what they were looking for."
While Duggins scored a season-high 15 at Marshall and is second on the team with a 10.3 scoring average, Brownell said there's more to Duggins than his scoring.
"He does a lot of things the stat sheet doesn't show," Brownell said. "He frees up other people just by the way he cuts."
Duggins says he is happy he ended up at Wright State. It's close to home, he's playing and he enjoys it.
"I made the right choice," Duggins said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.
Right choice: Freshman Duggins playing well for WSU
After a complicated recruiting process, both coach and basketball player are happy with his start at Wright State.
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Friday, December 15, 2006
FAIRBORN — Even when a season gets off to a slow start — as this one has for the 3-4 Wright State Raiders — there are players who shine through the murk.
As the men's basketball team readies for its second home game, Saturday against Bowling Green, it's obvious that senior DaShaun Wood is producing another fine season. He showed his worth again Wednesday, scoring 24 points in a 79-72 loss at Marshall.
Wright State's second-leading scorer in that game was 6-foot-3 freshman guard Vaughn Duggins, a player coach Brad Brownell had to recruit twice.
Duggins, from Pendleton, Ind., originally committed to Brownell when he was coaching at North Carolina-Wilmington. When Brownell and his staff moved to WSU last March, Duggins dumped Wilmington and committed to Brownell again, although there were some anxious moments.
Duggins made the Indiana All-Star team, which annually hosts a Top 40 workout and games for coaches at an Indianapolis gym.
On this particular spring day, Brownell and his staff noticed Indiana's Kelvin Sampson and Purdue's Matt Painter also watching.
"They were there to see Vaughn," Brownell said, "and he didn't have a great day. He wasn't bad, but he wasn't great, and that was good for us."
Still, Duggins was offered a "walk-on" position with Indiana, but he decided to keep his commitment to Wright State.
"Leaving Wilmington opened up my recruiting," Duggins said. "I definitely started looking here, but I was (also) trying to prove something, that I could play at the Big Ten level.
"I didn't have it that day (at the workout). I just didn't score, and that's what they were looking for."
While Duggins scored a season-high 15 at Marshall and is second on the team with a 10.3 scoring average, Brownell said there's more to Duggins than his scoring.
"He does a lot of things the stat sheet doesn't show," Brownell said. "He frees up other people just by the way he cuts."
Duggins says he is happy he ended up at Wright State. It's close to home, he's playing and he enjoys it.
"I made the right choice," Duggins said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2157
or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.