Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Anyone can pick out the reasons Wright State has won at least a share of the last three Horizon League regular-season titles: talent, effort and coaching.
The formula hasn’t changed this year. But if the Raiders go on to win a fourth in a row, the most important factor may be one that outsiders never see.
“We’ve stayed together,” said junior Grant Basile, who on Monday was named Horizon League Player of the Week. “We write on the board (in the locker room), ‘Brotherhood over basketball.’ That’s our motto this year. Through slumps, ups, downs, good wins or bad losses, we’re sticking together.”
That all-for-one-and-one-for-all attitude has certainly gotten the Raiders through some rough patches and into the thick of the league race.
It’s also helped Basile work his way out of a troubling slump.
The preseason first-team all-league pick was averaging 18 points going into a key stretch against two other conference contenders at the end of January.
He had nine points on 4-of-12 shooting in 30 minutes against Northern Kentucky and five points while going 2 of 7 in 32 minutes against Cleveland State. He tried four 3-pointers and missed them all.
