Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State women’s basketball coach Katrina Merriweather could have put her team No. 1 on her ballot in the Horizon League preseason poll last week but decided against it — even though the Raiders are defending regular-season and tourney champs.
Not that she believes they’ve taken a step back.
“That’s only because of all we lost and things that are in question,” she said.
Three 1,000-point scorers need to be replaced, including one who also topped 1,000 career rebounds.
But that didn’t keep the Raiders from being named co-favorites with Green Bay with four first-place votes each from the coaches, while IUPUI received the other two.
“When I talk to people or the coaches in the league, they jokingly say, ‘We know you have someone sitting over there we just don’t know about yet,’” Merriweather said.
The fourth-year coach, who has been recruiting at a level never seen before at Wright State, says she just laughs while revealing little.
But are there players poised for breakout seasons?
“Well,” she said, chuckling, “maybe a couple.”
