By Marisol Nicholson
2 17 2024
DAYTON – The Wright State men’s basketball team welcomes Robert Morris to the Nutter Center on Saturday afternoon for Homecoming and a 4 p.m. tipoff. Fans can follow the action several ways – via live stats, by watching on ESPN+ or by tuning in to the new home for Raider Basketball 101.5 HANK FM and WING 1410 AM. Chris Collins and Justin Kinner will have all the play-by-play on the television and radio feeds.
Fans can tune into 101.5 HANK FM live over the air in the Dayton metro area, as well stream the station live nationwide through a variety of free streaming apps. The iHeartRadio app, the TuneIn Radio app and the Audacy app are all FREE and each carry 101.5 HANK FM. Just search “101.5 HANK FM” on any of the three apps for Raider Basketball.
**Wright State has launched the Wright State Raiders app, allowing fans to stay up to date on Raider Basketball and all other sports. Fans are encouraged to use the Wright State Raiders app as the primary method for managing their digital tickets, which are required for entry to all WSU basketball events. Tickets for the 2023-24 basketball seasons are now uploaded and accessible on all purchaser accounts. Fans can easily view their tickets, download them to their mobile wallet, or transfer them to another individual account.**
SATURDAY: WATCH ON ESPN+ | FOLLOW LIVE STATS | LISTEN ON 101.5 HANK FM | GAME NOTES | TICKETS
LAST TIME OUT
A hot start to the second half was not enough for Wright State last Saturday night, as the Raiders fell 74-60 to visiting Oakland in Horizon League action. Tanner Holden notched his second double-double of the season, finishing with 15 points and 10 rebounds and adding five steals and three assists, as one of four Raiders in double figures, with Trey Calvin adding 14 points and Brandon Noel having 11 points. Alex Huibregtse chipped in 10 points while AJ Braun had eight points and eight rebounds.
MR. 2000 (x2)
Tanner Holden is on the verge of 2,000 career points. Holden enters Saturday one point shy of the overall mark for his career, while he currently is just under 100 points shy of 2,000 points in a Raider uniform.
COMPANY OF ONE
Thanks to Trey Calvin & Tanner Holden, Wright State will become the only team in America with two players with 2,000-plus career points. Purdue (Zach Edey, Lance Jones) is the only other team with multiple players with 1,800-plus points.
2KCALVIN
Trey Calvin reached the 2,000-point milestone with a pullup jumper on Feb. 8 against Detroit Mercy, joining Bill Edwards (1990-93, 2,303 career points) as the only Raiders to reach the mark, while Calvin became the 15th player to reach 2,000 points in Horizon League history and is the first Wright State player in the HL’s 2,000-point club.
(ROBERT) MORRIS TO COME
Wright State and RMU have met just nine times in the Raiders’ 54 seasons of basketball, with Wright State taking six of the seven meetings as Horizon League foes – including a 101-76 victory back in January. The first meeting came Jan. 24, 1977 inside the old Physical Education Building on the Wright State campus – an 80-76 Raider victory.
COLONIAL ROAD
-Robert Morris is 10-16 overall with a 6-9 mark in HL play. RMU is 3-10 on the road overall, having dropped six of eight road contests in HL action.
-Markeese Hastings is 10th in the HL with 15.7 points per game. He is second in the League with 8.3 rebounds per contest and a 54.5 shooting percentage.
NATIONALLY SPEAKING. . .
Wright State currently leads the nation with its 52.9 percent overall season shooting percentage. The Raiders’ Effective FG Percentage (58.2 percent) is No. 3 and the Scoring Offense (85.0) is No. 7. Individually, Trey Calvin is No. 17 nationally with 177 Field Goals made, while No. 35 nationally with 19.8 points per game scoring average and is No. 22 with his 89.2 percent Free Throw Percentage. Calvin’s 494 total points are No. 28, while Tanner Holden (421 total points) is No. 112. Holden’s 154 Field Goals made is No. 75 nationally.
SCORING THE ROCK
Trey Calvin has scored in double digits in every game in 2023-24 and 28 straight contests going back to last season. Calvin has been held to less than 10 points only five times since scoring 18 points on Feb. 26, 2022 and has only 11 total single-digit scoring games since the start of 2021-22. Calvin has 37 performances of 20-plus points in the same time span.
DYNAMIC DUO
Trey Calvin and Tanner Holden have combined for a formattable one-two punch, with Calvin’s 19.8 points per game second among all HL scorers and Holden’s 16.2 points per game seventh. In HL-only contests, the pair is fifth and ninth, with Calvin at 18.9 points per game and Holden averaging 16.9 per.
RETURN TO FORM
Tanner Holden has double figures scoring in 22 of 26 games this season, notching eight 20-plus point games. Holden’s current 16.2 points/game average is the second-best of his career behind only his 20.1 points/game average in 2021-22. Holden currently has 39 career games with 20-plus points scored as a Raider, with only 21 single-digit scoring games in his Raider career (12 as a freshman).
NOEL NOEL
Brandon Noel has six double-doubles this season, including five against Horizon League opponents, and has double digit scoring outputs in 20 of 25 games. Noel finished with 11 double-doubles a season ago, including nine double-doubles after the calendar flipped to January.
BIG BRAUN
AJ Braun currently has 16 games of 10-plus points scored, tying the number of double-digit games he had a season ago. Braun has come alive since the start of January, tallying 10-plus points in 9 of 12 games – with nine points in two other contests and eight in the third. In addition to the scoring, Braun has four games with 10-plus rebounds, all of which have been double-double performances.
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