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Archdeacon: ‘It’s a bad feeling’ — WSU defense missing in loss to Western Kentucky

Nagy exhorts team

Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News

By Tom Archdeacon

It was like you tossed them a Rubik Cube and asked them to solve it right now.

They twisted and turned, paused, and thought, and finally gave a little laugh that signaled they were stumped.

“I don’t even know how to answer that,” Trey Calvin shrugged.

“I don’t know what to tell you there,” Scott Nagy admitted a few minutes later.

Wright State’s star guard and then its veteran coach were both asked why Western Kentucky — so easily and embarrassingly — had been able to drive right through the Raiders’ so-called defense for lay-up after lay-up after lay-up down the stretch in the Hilltoppers come-from-behind, 91-84, victory at the Nutter Center on Tuesday night.

In the final 81 seconds, Western Kentucky scored three straight times with lay-ups.