Wright State University NCAA News

The Wright State men's basketball team had an early Thanksgiving Day practice Thursday, Nov.

Vaughn Duggins scored 21 points and Todd Brown added 20 to lead Wright State past Central Michigan 69-53 on Tuesday night.

With apologies to Dallas journalist Blackie Sherrod, scattershooting while wondering whether Butler would ever expand enrollment to 5,000 students: -- Star forward Kevin Coble of Northwestern will miss Wednesday's game against No.

Russ Mika was one of several former local high school stars to garner honors in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

The college basketball season officially began this past Monday, but the slate truly gets going on Friday night.

The defending Pac-10 champions began the basketball season Friday night with a 74-69 win against Wright State.

Wright State repels Portland State charge, 75-70 Eds: APNewsNow. Wright State 75, Portland State 70.

At introductions, Wright State was looking over at the Washington parade of starters.

Todd Brown and Vaughn Duggins have been with the Wright State basketball program the longest, and both would be entering their senior seasons had Duggins not broken a finger on his shooting hand last year.

It wasn't even a 60-second ride - from Wright State's preseason basketball luncheon at the Nutter Center to the team's practice facility - but it was enough time, Vaughn Duggins said, to reflect on a much longer journey: "Scott and I were on the way over here, and I told him, 'Man, I just want to score my first point back.

What a week this is going to be for the Raiders. Sunday, point guard Cory Stanton of Springfield, Tenn., made a commitment to the team and expects to sign on Wednesday, along with three other high school seniors - Kegan Clark, A.J. Pacher and Cole Darling.

If every picture truly does tell a story, Todd Brown hopes the big tattoo that covers the top half of his newly sculpted left arm tells the tale of two seasons.

Well before 6 p.m., when the gates of the Nutter Center opened, ghouls and goblins were already lined up to get inside on Thursday, Oct.

Washington will face a weakened Wright State in the Nov. 13 season opener for both teams.

There was probably no way Wright State basketball coach Brad Brownell was going to make everybody happy, so he didn't try today, when he announced a three-game suspension for star junior guard Vaughn Duggins.

"He said, 'This is going to be bad if you don't pick it up,' " Brown recalled. "We were just kids being kids." Junior guard Vaughn Duggins - looking back - also knew Brownell was right.

Wright State has had foreign players contribute to its basketball program, but it can be argued that none traveled farther to the southwest Ohio campus than Paul Darkwa.

His parents had always been on the move to help find him and his siblings a better life.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Freshman F Tyler Koch averaged 20 points and 8.5 boards per game as a senior at Winchester High.

Wright State has registered three 20-win seasons under third-year head coach Brad Brownell after posting just two in the previous 19 seasons.