Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
It went from one of the greatest plays of his college career to one of the scariest thanks to one hard foul.
“For myself, it was one of the most heads-up, athletic plays I’ve ever had,” Wright State’s 6-foot-8 Loudon Love recalled of that early-game steal he’d had against La Salle in the second round of the Gulf Coast Showcase just before Thanksgiving in Florida.
“I’d poked the ball out from behind on their point guard and it had kicked back to me. I was near midcourt and I turned and it was just me and the 5-man from La Salle.
“I thought it was going to be the first time I dunked on somebody in a fast break situation and I went up, but he jumped with me. He was about 260 – about the same size as me, but maybe a little shorter – and he fouled me pretty hard. And I hit the court on my side.”
Fueled by adrenaline and pride and some anger, Love immediately pushed himself upright.
“I played a little bit longer, shot my foul shot and even had a tip-in with that hand,” he said. “At first I was thinking, ‘It’s fine…it’s fine.’
“But then I was fouled again and that time I literally dropped the ball on the first one. My elbow had tightened up.”
