The benefit of multiple-day events is playing home games that don’t require return games and giving players experience in consecutive-day tournament formats. Wright State, for instance, will focus on one of the coming teams in each of the three days of practice before the event.
But things in women’s basketball are changing. Beginning next season, the NCAA will change its RPI calculation to match men’s basketball, which gives more reward and less punishment for wins and losses on the road. With road games given more respect, hosting multiple teams at home might not have the same allure.
“We can’t really change next year, because we’re already set,” said Bradbury, whose team will host Western Kentucky, St. Francis (Pa.) and Florida A&M for next season’s event. “We’ll have to look at it after that.”
The Raiders are 5-4 after a 70-63 loss against Miami University on Tuesday. They have lost three of the past four games, but they are 3-0 at home.
Earlier this week, WSU freshman point guard Kim Demmings was named the Horizon League player of the week for the second time. It was just the second time in the program’s history that one of its players was named HL player of the week twice in one season.
Demmings averages 15.8 points and 4.8 rebounds.
Recruit updates: J.T. Yoho, a 6-foot-6 Wright State signee from Eastern Greene High School in Bloomfield, Ind., became the seventh player in his high school's history to reach 1,000 career points last week. Eastern Greene is 4-1, and Yoho is averaging 21.8 points.
Jacoby Roddy, another WSU signee, scored a team-high 16 points last Saturday but his Peoria (Ill.) Manual team, ranked No. 1 in the Class 3A preseason state poll, suffered its first loss to Lanphier, 62-58. Manual is 6-1.
Players of the week: Two other Raiders athletes, Cassandra Lloyd (indoor track) and Molley Pipkorn (swimming), were named the HL athletes of the week. That brings the Raiders' total of players of the week to eight this academic year.
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