Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
As the final seconds ticked off the clock at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum Tuesday afternoon, Wright State coach Trina Merriweather could feel the surge of emotions all around her on the sideline.
She knew what her players wanted to do…and what she would do, too.
“As the clock wound down, you could see our players were all getting jittery,” she said. “They just wanted to dance and rush the floor and hug and all that stuff.”
And when the final horn sounded – when Wright State had pushed aside IUPUI, 53-41, in the Horizon League Tournament’s championship game and won a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years and the third trip in program history – the Raiders’ sideline players did rush out and mob their joyous teammates on the court.
They all danced and hugged and tumbled and laughed. And when two little cannons shot cloud bursts of confetti all over them, some players dropped to the floor and made snow angels in the fallen glitter.
As this was happening, Merriweather made her way through the celebration to a player standing by herself off to the side at midcourt.
This was the real Angel.
