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Monday, February 13, 2012

Wright State fighting for first-round league tournament home game

By Kyle Nagel | Monday, February 13, 2012, 06:56 PM

The Wright State men’s basketball enters this week’s only Horizon League game against Detroit on Wednesday in seventh place, one spot out of hosting a first-round league tournament game.

With three league games left, there isn’t a lot of time to make up ground, but the Raiders helped themselves on Sunday with a 70-46 thumping of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which moved WSU one game behind Milwaukee for the No. 6 spot.

In the Horizon League tournament, seeds Nos. 1 and 2 (currently Valparaiso and Cleveland State) receive two byes into the semifinals. Seeds Nos. 3-6 host 7-10 in the first round, and the winners player in the quarterfinals at the site of the No. 1 seed.

WSU will face three of the league’s top five teams to close the regular season: Against Detroit (tied with Butler and Youngstown State for third) on Wednesday, at Youngstown State (tied for third) on Feb. 23 and at Cleveland State (second) on Feb. 25. In between, WSU will play at Missouri-Kansas City in the BracketBusters event on Saturday.

That doesn’t set up well for WSU to make up ground, particularly because two of Milwaukee’s remaining games come against the ninth- and 10th-place teams, UIC and Loyola. If WSU travels for the first round, it will be the first time since 2005-06 they do so.

But there is more optimism after Sunday’s game, which was WSU’s best performance of the season.

WSU HL tourney history

With seed (and round beaten)

1994-95: 8 (final)

1995-96: 4 (quarterfinal)

1996-97: 8 (first round)

1997-98: 7 (semifinal)

1998-99: 7 (quarterfinal)

1999-00: 6 (quarterfinal)

2000-01: 4 (semifinal)

2001-02: 4 (quarterfinal)

2002-03: 8 (first round)

2003-04: 5 (first round)

2004-05: 6 (quarterfinal)

2005-06: 7 (first round)

2006-07: 1 (champion)

2007-08: 3 (quarterfinal)

2008-09: 4 (semifinal)

2009-10: 2 (final)

2010-11: 6 (quarterfinal)

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