After 21 years at South Dakota State University, Scott Nagy has decided to leave the Jackrabbits to join Wright State as the Raiders introduced him as the new head coach of the men's basketball team during a press conference at the Nutter Center on Tuesday, April 5. "Every step of the way, I knew that this was the right place for me," Nagy said. "Without question. Everything is in place here to have a successful men's basketball program."

Wright State officially announced the firing of six-year head basketball coach Billy Donlon on Friday, March 18 after the Raiders reached three Horizon League Championship games in the last four years, but fell short in each. “I want Wright State men’s basketball to be the bully on the block,” Athletic Director Bob Grant Grant said. “Like our baseball team is and like our women’s basketball team is.” Reports of the firing were speculated on social media on Wednesday, March 16 and a number of Wright State fans criticized the decision on social media and for the time that it took for the news to be official. “I expect us to be at a level where we are competing in the top 100 in the nation every year,” Grant said. “We’re working to win against ranked opponents and appearing in some kind of regularity in the postseason tournaments whether it’s the NCAA or the NIT. “ Head basketball coach at Xavier, Chris Mack, also criticized the decision during a press conference on Thursday, March 17 “It’s a bad decision,” Mack said.  “I don’t know their athletic director, but we’re in a results-oriented business.  Unless there was some scandal, which I know Billy and that’s not the case, he should not have been let go.  “I don’t know who Wright State is pretending to be or trying to be, but that’s ridiculous,” Mack continued. Grant believes that the Raiders can be more than the Horizon League runner-ups and wants to provide more excitement for the WSU fan base. “We’ve been top 100 for multiple years in a row. We’ve been to ranked tournaments,” Grant said. “These are places I want to go back to for our fan base. To energize our fans, our students and our faculty. “I feel like we’ve slid backwards a little bit,” Grant continued. “That’s caused a little apathy out of our fan base, out of our students and we need to get that back and that’s the main emphasis behind the change.” Grant believes the search for replacing Donlon should be exciting and mentioned that an ideal candidate will agree with the Universities aspirations and ‘PSA’ policy in the mission statement. “Our culture is a little different in the athletic department,” Grant said. “We’re not a win-all place, we have a very specific mission statement. We treat our students as people first, students second and athletes third. In the case of men’s basketball we expect them to win. It’s a big job. “My theory is to hire the right people, get them all the support we can and hopefully push them in a good direction,” Grant said.

When you're sitting in class, do you ever wonder to yourself, 'Why am I here?' or 'This is a waste of my time?' That has been me for the last five years at Wright State and Clark State for many different reasons that I feel it is time to voice my frustrations.

Joe Thomasson maintains a busy lifestyle being a student-athlete on the men's basketball team as he balances his time between studies, practices and games as well as being a father to his two children. "It's real tough," the six foot, four inch guard said. "I don't know if I can say I wanted it this young or at this point in my life, but having them has done noting but motivate me and inspire me to go harder."

Thomasson to Alstork, Alstork to Thomasson. Senior forward Joe Thomasson and sophomore guard Mark Alstork have displayed great chemistry on the court so far this season by assisting each other 11 times in the first five games. "I know his game, he knows my game," Thomasson said. "He knows where I'm going to be and I know where he's going to be. I know hot to get him going and he knows how to get me going."

As far as he knows, junior golfer Austin Sipe is the only student-athlete at Wright State diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes; an auto immune disease where beta cells are destroyed and the pancreas does not produce a hormone called insulin. "You have to embrace it and that's what I'm doing," Sipe said. "I'm trying to encourage anyone else out there who is struggling from Type 1 diabetes to just embrace it."

Junior golfer Ryan Wenzler has shown signs of greatness throughout his golf career by striking two career hole-in-ones as well as tying a course record at Elks Run Golf Club in the Northern Kentucky Classic on Sept. 28, 2016.

The men's cross country team kicked their season off on Sept. 5 at the Queen City Invitational. The Raiders placed seventh as junior Cory Miles set a school record for the men's 6K with a time of 19 minutes and 42 seconds. "I was overwhelmed with happiness. It's every athletes team to break a record," Miles said.