Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State women’s basketball coach Kari Hoffman didn’t know how well her team would play in the Horizon League quarterfinals, but she knew she could count on a high level of resolve, saying:
“We were determined to go out and take that game — to play our best game of the season. And I feel like we did that.”
The fourth-seeded Raiders had one of their worst shooting nights of the year, but they dominated the bulk of the fourth quarter in rolling to a 70-60 victory over Milwaukee on Thursday.
They held the fifth-seeded Panthers to 33.3% shooting and had a 42-34 rebounding edge, including 14 on the offensive end.
“I’ve never seen this team defend that hard and be that urgent to get stops,” Hoffman said. “We came down with all the boards we needed to and got a lot of offensive rebounds, too.”
The Raiders (18-14) trailed, 55-51, after two Milwaukee free throws with 5:21 to go in the fourth period. But they ripped off 14 straight points — eight from Alexis Hutchison and six from Layne Ferrell — to take a 65-55 lead with 55 seconds to go.
