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DDN Archdeacon: Familiar storyline for Wright State women in loss to Cleveland State

Jade Tate

Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News

By Tom Archdeacon

As she worked the Nutter Center sideline of her resurgent, but suddenly retrogressive Wright State women’s basketball team in the first half Wednesday night, Wright State coach Kari Hoffman must have felt like she was stuck in one of those old, 1940s black and white movies about newspapers.

All she needed was a fedora with a press card tucked in the hatband and a cigarette dangling from her lips as she frantically yelled into the receiver of a phone.

She already had her line down pat: “Get me rewrite! Now!”

She needed to change the Raiders storyline against Cleveland State because it was reading just like one with Green Bay 10 days earlier.

Wright State is a good team, but against the two best teams in the Horizon League, the Raiders have found themselves in dire need of a rewrite.

“I wish we could play the first half over again,” Hoffman said after WSU’s 72-61 loss to the Vikings on Wednesday night.