Saturday, November 12
Louisville, KY / KFC Yum! Center
1 PM
Wright State University
at
Louisville
Photo by: Jessica Roberts
Men's Basketball travels to Louisville for Saturday afternoon meeting
11/11/2022 12:15:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DAYTON - The Wright State men's basketball team heads on the road for the first time in the young season as the Raiders make the trip to take on Louisville in a 1 p.m. tipoff on Saturday afternoon. Wright State is coming off a season-opening double-overtime loss to Davidson inside the Nutter Center, while Louisville fell at home in its opener to Bellarmine on Wednesday.
Fans can follow the action several ways - via live stats, by watching on the ACC Network Extra and ESPN+ or by tuning in on WONE 980 AM. Chris Collins and Jim Brown will have all the play-by-play on the radio.
SATURDAY: WATCH ON ESPN+ | FOLLOW LIVE STATS | LISTEN ON WONE 980 AM | GAME NOTES
LAST TIME OUT
Wright State opened the season at home on Wednesday night, battling through two overtime periods before falling to Davidson 102-97. Trey Calvin finished with a career-high 37 points, including 17 in the first half, on trio of three pointers along with four assists, three rebounds and three steals. Amari Davis tallied a double-double in his first game as a Raider, finishing with 17 points and 13 rebounds, while AJ Braun and Tim Finke each just missed double-doubles of their own. Both finished with 11 points as Braun pulled down nine rebounds and Finke added eight rebounds to his stat line.
IN THE CARDS
Louisville also opened its 2022-23 season on Wednesday night, falling at home to Bellarmine 67-66. Louisville went 13-19 last season with a 6-14 ACC mark, falling in the second round of the ACC Tournament to end the season. Former Louisville standout Kenny Payne was named the Cardinals new head coach in mid-March and begins his first season at the helm of his alma mater this fall. Louisville's meeting with Wright State marks the fifth time in the last six seasons the Cardinals have faced a current Horizon League member school (Northern Kentucky 2016-17 (NIT), Robert Morris 2018-19, Youngstown State 2019-20, Detroit Mercy 2021-22. The Raiders and Cardinals have met three times previously, all in Louisville: February 1983, February 1984 and December 1996.
LOUISVILLE LISTING
-Louisville's season-opening loss on Wednesday to Bellarmine snapped a 21-game winning streak in home openers for the Cardinals and was just their second-ever loss in November inside KFC Yum! Center, now sitting at 48-2 in the arena in November since it opened in 2010.
-Jae'Lyn Withers had a team-high 17 points Wednesday against Bellarmine and went 2-for-3 from 3-point range. Across Louisville's two exhibitions and the season opener, Withers has made 9-of-14 three-pointers (64.3%).
CAREER TREY
Trey Calvin's 37 points in the season opener against Davidson was a new career-best for the senior. His first game with 30-plus points, it was just the eighth time in his Raider career that Calvin had scored over 20 points. Calvin's 37 points are tied for the second-most points scored in a single game by a Wright State player in the last four seasons, one shy of former Raider Tanner Holden's 38 points at UIC in January 2022.
AMAR-EDY HOME
Amari Davis dropped 17 points in his Wright State debut against Davidson on Nov. 9, his second-most points in a game since leaving Green Bay following the 2020-21 season. Last season at Missouri, Davis tallied 17 points twice (vs. Wichita St. 11/26 and vs. Utah 12/18) while scoring a season-best 23 points at Ole Miss on Jan. 18. Davis' career-high 35 points came against the Raiders in December 2020 while with Green Bay.
LONG TIME COMING
Redshirt freshman Brandon Noel finally made his Raider debut on Nov. 9, tallying three points and pulling down a pair of rebounds in 19 minutes of action. Noel, a member of the Wright State roster since the 2020-21 season, has spent the last two years working his way back from a knee injury that happened prior to what would have been his freshman season.
Fans can follow the action several ways - via live stats, by watching on the ACC Network Extra and ESPN+ or by tuning in on WONE 980 AM. Chris Collins and Jim Brown will have all the play-by-play on the radio.
SATURDAY: WATCH ON ESPN+ | FOLLOW LIVE STATS | LISTEN ON WONE 980 AM | GAME NOTES
LAST TIME OUT
Wright State opened the season at home on Wednesday night, battling through two overtime periods before falling to Davidson 102-97. Trey Calvin finished with a career-high 37 points, including 17 in the first half, on trio of three pointers along with four assists, three rebounds and three steals. Amari Davis tallied a double-double in his first game as a Raider, finishing with 17 points and 13 rebounds, while AJ Braun and Tim Finke each just missed double-doubles of their own. Both finished with 11 points as Braun pulled down nine rebounds and Finke added eight rebounds to his stat line.
IN THE CARDS
Louisville also opened its 2022-23 season on Wednesday night, falling at home to Bellarmine 67-66. Louisville went 13-19 last season with a 6-14 ACC mark, falling in the second round of the ACC Tournament to end the season. Former Louisville standout Kenny Payne was named the Cardinals new head coach in mid-March and begins his first season at the helm of his alma mater this fall. Louisville's meeting with Wright State marks the fifth time in the last six seasons the Cardinals have faced a current Horizon League member school (Northern Kentucky 2016-17 (NIT), Robert Morris 2018-19, Youngstown State 2019-20, Detroit Mercy 2021-22. The Raiders and Cardinals have met three times previously, all in Louisville: February 1983, February 1984 and December 1996.
LOUISVILLE LISTING
-Louisville's season-opening loss on Wednesday to Bellarmine snapped a 21-game winning streak in home openers for the Cardinals and was just their second-ever loss in November inside KFC Yum! Center, now sitting at 48-2 in the arena in November since it opened in 2010.
-Jae'Lyn Withers had a team-high 17 points Wednesday against Bellarmine and went 2-for-3 from 3-point range. Across Louisville's two exhibitions and the season opener, Withers has made 9-of-14 three-pointers (64.3%).
CAREER TREY
Trey Calvin's 37 points in the season opener against Davidson was a new career-best for the senior. His first game with 30-plus points, it was just the eighth time in his Raider career that Calvin had scored over 20 points. Calvin's 37 points are tied for the second-most points scored in a single game by a Wright State player in the last four seasons, one shy of former Raider Tanner Holden's 38 points at UIC in January 2022.
AMAR-EDY HOME
Amari Davis dropped 17 points in his Wright State debut against Davidson on Nov. 9, his second-most points in a game since leaving Green Bay following the 2020-21 season. Last season at Missouri, Davis tallied 17 points twice (vs. Wichita St. 11/26 and vs. Utah 12/18) while scoring a season-best 23 points at Ole Miss on Jan. 18. Davis' career-high 35 points came against the Raiders in December 2020 while with Green Bay.
LONG TIME COMING
Redshirt freshman Brandon Noel finally made his Raider debut on Nov. 9, tallying three points and pulling down a pair of rebounds in 19 minutes of action. Noel, a member of the Wright State roster since the 2020-21 season, has spent the last two years working his way back from a knee injury that happened prior to what would have been his freshman season.
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