WSU INSIDER
Mar 31, 2005 6:52:04 GMT -5
Post by Big D on Mar 31, 2005 6:52:04 GMT -5
WSU INSIDER
Biancardi waiting on NCAA
By Marc Katz
Dayton Daily News
While awaiting word on when the slow-poking NCAA will call Paul Biancardi, his men's basketball coach, for an interview on the Ohio State mess from a few years ago, Wright State Athletic Director Mike Cusack has a few other things on his plate.
"No, they haven't interviewed him yet," Cusack said. "I expect that will be next week."
Biancardi maintains he did nothing wrong during a situation that cost OSU head coach Jim O'Brien his job and pressured that school to self-impose a one-year postseason tournament ban on its team.
Even though Biancardi is no longer employed by Ohio State, if the NCAA decides he had any culpability in what happened there, and the NCAA wants to levy a penalty, it will look to WSU to make good.
Before all that happens — or doesn't — Cusack must find a volleyball coach and two assistant women's basketball coaches.
When Joylynn Tracy resigned from the volleyball position at the end of the season, assistant Rob Beam ran the offseason training program.
Recently, though, Beam accepted an assistant volleyball post at Illinois State, so the current team members are just going through weight training.
"We really need to get somebody in there," Cusack said. "We're going to start interviewing next week, and we're about two weeks out (from hiring someone)."
As for basketball coaches, head coach Bridgett Williams lost both Nathan Bellman and Marlene Stollings before the season, then posted the best WSU women's mark in 17 years with only her husband, Kevin, as an assistant. The Raiders were 19-11 and lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay 58-48 in the Horizon League tournament final.
"I can't tell you exactly where we are on that, but Bridgett will make her recommendations, and we'll hire the coaches," Cusack said.
Raider notes
• The WSU baseball team swept Akron, winning Sunday's game 9-6 at Nischwitz Stadium with leadoff extra-base hits by Amin Abusaleh (a triple) in the second and Brian Shoup (double) in the fifth doing major damage. Abusaleh had four hits, two RBIs and scored two runs.
The day before, WSU beat Akron 3-1 and 7-4 (14 innings). The teams used 10 pitchers and 33 players in the second game.
With the game tied 3-3, Akron scored in the 14th. But in the bottom of the inning, Ross Oeder walked on a 3-2 pitch with two out to load the bases, bringing up Justin Wilson. On the second pitch, he hit a grand slam.
The Raiders followed that series with a 14-5 pasting of Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday. It was the fourth straight victory for the Raiders, their longest winning streak since 2002.
The streak came to an end with a 15-14 loss at IPFW on Wednesday. Each team banged out 17 hits while the Raiders blasted six home runs.
• The softball team scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth Wednesday to beat the University of Dayton 10-9 in a game originally scheduled for seven innings because the teams were trying to get in a doubleheader. It got too dark to play the second game, but the day was worth it for the Raiders, who scored the tying run on a Kristen Farley hit and the winning run when Brandi Steiner's two-out bunt was misplayed at first.
• The women's track team finished a point out of second in the recent Yellow Jacket Collegiate Open against NAIA and NCAA Division II and III schools at Cedarville. Junior Jennifer Williamson won the 100-meter hurdles in 16 seconds; junior Stephanie Supan won the 400 hurdles in 1:07.48; and senior Ashlie Jenkins won the 200 in 27.12.
Malone College won with 151 points, followed by Cedarville (146) and WSU (145) among the 12 schools entered.
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Biancardi waiting on NCAA
By Marc Katz
Dayton Daily News
While awaiting word on when the slow-poking NCAA will call Paul Biancardi, his men's basketball coach, for an interview on the Ohio State mess from a few years ago, Wright State Athletic Director Mike Cusack has a few other things on his plate.
"No, they haven't interviewed him yet," Cusack said. "I expect that will be next week."
Biancardi maintains he did nothing wrong during a situation that cost OSU head coach Jim O'Brien his job and pressured that school to self-impose a one-year postseason tournament ban on its team.
Even though Biancardi is no longer employed by Ohio State, if the NCAA decides he had any culpability in what happened there, and the NCAA wants to levy a penalty, it will look to WSU to make good.
Before all that happens — or doesn't — Cusack must find a volleyball coach and two assistant women's basketball coaches.
When Joylynn Tracy resigned from the volleyball position at the end of the season, assistant Rob Beam ran the offseason training program.
Recently, though, Beam accepted an assistant volleyball post at Illinois State, so the current team members are just going through weight training.
"We really need to get somebody in there," Cusack said. "We're going to start interviewing next week, and we're about two weeks out (from hiring someone)."
As for basketball coaches, head coach Bridgett Williams lost both Nathan Bellman and Marlene Stollings before the season, then posted the best WSU women's mark in 17 years with only her husband, Kevin, as an assistant. The Raiders were 19-11 and lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay 58-48 in the Horizon League tournament final.
"I can't tell you exactly where we are on that, but Bridgett will make her recommendations, and we'll hire the coaches," Cusack said.
Raider notes
• The WSU baseball team swept Akron, winning Sunday's game 9-6 at Nischwitz Stadium with leadoff extra-base hits by Amin Abusaleh (a triple) in the second and Brian Shoup (double) in the fifth doing major damage. Abusaleh had four hits, two RBIs and scored two runs.
The day before, WSU beat Akron 3-1 and 7-4 (14 innings). The teams used 10 pitchers and 33 players in the second game.
With the game tied 3-3, Akron scored in the 14th. But in the bottom of the inning, Ross Oeder walked on a 3-2 pitch with two out to load the bases, bringing up Justin Wilson. On the second pitch, he hit a grand slam.
The Raiders followed that series with a 14-5 pasting of Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday. It was the fourth straight victory for the Raiders, their longest winning streak since 2002.
The streak came to an end with a 15-14 loss at IPFW on Wednesday. Each team banged out 17 hits while the Raiders blasted six home runs.
• The softball team scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth Wednesday to beat the University of Dayton 10-9 in a game originally scheduled for seven innings because the teams were trying to get in a doubleheader. It got too dark to play the second game, but the day was worth it for the Raiders, who scored the tying run on a Kristen Farley hit and the winning run when Brandi Steiner's two-out bunt was misplayed at first.
• The women's track team finished a point out of second in the recent Yellow Jacket Collegiate Open against NAIA and NCAA Division II and III schools at Cedarville. Junior Jennifer Williamson won the 100-meter hurdles in 16 seconds; junior Stephanie Supan won the 400 hurdles in 1:07.48; and senior Ashlie Jenkins won the 200 in 27.12.
Malone College won with 151 points, followed by Cedarville (146) and WSU (145) among the 12 schools entered.
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