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2019–20 Wright State Raiders Men's Basketball Team
The 2019–20 Wright State Raiders men's basketball team represented Wright State University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Raiders, led by fourth-year head coach Scott Nagy, played their home games at the Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 25–7, 15–3 in Horizon League play to be regular season Horizon League champions. They lost in the semifinals of the Horizon League tournament to UIC. As regular season league champions who failed to win their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament. However, the NIT, and all other postseason tournament, were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season The Raiders finished the 2018–19 season 21–14 overall, 13–5 in Horizon League play, finishing as co-regular season champions, alongside Northern Kentucky. In the Horizon League tournament, they defeated IUPUI in the quarterfinals, Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Nagy
Scott Michael Nagy (; born June 7, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach for Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball. He had previously served as head coach at South Dakota State for 21 seasons (1995–2016). Biography Born in Abilene, Texas, Nagy attended St. Matthews grade school in Champaign, Illinois and Champaign Centennial High School, which he graduated from in 1984. His father is Dick Nagy, who was a University of Illinois assistant basketball coach under Lou Henson. Nagy played basketball collegiately at Delta State University, where he currently holds school records for most career games played and most assists in a career (549), season (234) and game (15). After graduation, Nagy became a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois for two seasons before taking a full-time assistant's job at South Dakota State, which he held for three years. After two seasons as an assistant at SIU Edwardsville, Nagy returned to South Dako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 National Invitation Tournament
The 2019 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I men's college basketball teams that were not selected to participate in the 2019 NCAA tournament. The tournament started on March 19, and concluded on April 4. The first three rounds were played on campus sites with the higher seeded team acting as host. The semifinals and championship game were held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Experimental rules On February 22, 2019, the NCAA announced a set of experimental rules that were used in this edition of the NIT. The following rules were also used in the 2018 NIT: * The three-point line was moved to the FIBA standard of . When the arc approaches the sideline, it changed to a line parallel to and from the sideline. * The free-throw lane was widened from the current college standard of 12 feet to the NBA standard of 16 feet. * After an offensive rebound, the shot clock was reset to 20 seconds instead of the current NC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montenegro
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Podgorica
Podgorica ( cnr-Cyrl, Подгорица; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Montenegro, largest city of Montenegro. The city is just north of Lake Skadar and close to coastal destinations on the Adriatic Sea. Historically, it was Podgorica's position at the confluence of the Ribnica (Morača), Ribnica and Morača River, Morača rivers and at the meeting-point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley that encouraged settlement. The surrounding landscape is predominantly mountainous terrain. After World War II, Podgorica was first designated as the capital of Montenegro in 1946. At that time, it was renamed Titograd in honor of Josip Broz Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia. It served as the capital of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until Montenegro's declaration of independence in 2006, after which it was reaffirmed as the capital of an independent Montenegro. The city's original name, Pod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Pewaukee is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 15,914 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The name of the city of Pewaukee comes from that of the name of the village, the origin which is rather unclear in itself. Many etymologies have been proposed for the name. The Village of Pewaukee, which was incorporated out of the town before it incorporated as a city, is surrounded by the city. History Pewaukee, Wisconsin, has a rich history that reflects its development over time. The Town of Pewaukee was officially established on January 13, 1840, by an act of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, predating Wisconsin’s statehood by eight years. When voting took place to decide the county seat for Waukesha County, Waukesha beat out Pewaukee by two votes. At the time, Governor Tyler Novak represented Pewaukee in court. In 1999, the City of Pewaukee was incorporated, encompassing areas of the former Town of Pewa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakwood, Montgomery County, Ohio
Oakwood is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,572 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Dayton, Oakwood is part of the Dayton metropolitan area. It was incorporated in 1908. John Henry Patterson, industrialist and founder of the National Cash Register Corporation, is considered the "Father of Oakwood." Oakwood is completely land-locked by the surrounding municipalities of Dayton and Kettering. Its small, compact geographic area facilitates the response of its single, unified (consolidated) Department of Public Safety, in which all personnel are certified as police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services (EMS) officers. History At the turn of the twentieth century, Oakwood was primarily farmland situated on a hill directly south of the City of Dayton. In 1913, when a disastrous flood devastated downtown Dayton (the Great Dayton Flood), advertising began to tout Oakwood property as "275 feet higher than the intersection of Third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva, Illinois
Geneva is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Illinois, United States. It is located in the far western side of the Chicago suburbs. Per the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 21,393. Geneva is part of a Tri-Cities, Illinois, tri-city area, located between St. Charles, Illinois, St. Charles and Batavia, Illinois, Batavia. The area experienced rapid population growth from the late 1980s through the mid-2000s as the Chicago suburbs spread to the west. Geneva is a popular tourist destination with its scenic location along the Fox River (Illinois River tributary), Fox River and numerous shops and restaurants. There is an extensive bike trail system in Geneva, including portions of the Fox River Trail (Illinois), Fox River Trail and the Illinois Prairie Path. Geneva has an active historical society, the Geneva History Center, located in downtown Geneva, and the Fabyan Windmill, an old Dutch windmill dating back to the 1850s. In 2013, it was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendale Heights, Illinois
Glendale Heights is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 33,176. The village is almost entirely residential, and is a far west suburb of Chicago. History Glendale Heights was a small farming area served by the Glen Ellyn post office up until the 1950s, with a population of just 104 in 1959. Midland Enterprises, run by Charles and Harold Reskin, started building houses in Glendale Heights in 1958. The Reskins bought two farms on Glen Ellyn Road north of North Avenue. Houses were first built on Glen Ellyn Road and Larry Lane near Fullerton Avenue. On June 16, 1959, a petition was filed and on July 13, the village became incorporated. The first election was held later that summer on August 2. The town was originally named ''Glendale'' as it was between Glen Ellyn and Bloomingdale, but after a conflict arose with the small town of Glendale in Southern Illinois, the city decided in March 1960 to add the term Heights, in refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndhurst, Ohio
Lyndhurst is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and an eastern suburb of Cleveland. The population was 14,050 at the United States Census 2020, 2020 census. A small part of Lyndhurst was originally part of Mayfield Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Mayfield Township. History The land currently comprising Lyndhurst was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, obtained via treaty with the Iroquois, Iroquois tribe in 1796 by the Connecticut Land Company. In 1797, Moses Cleaveland named the area east of the Cuyahoga River "Euclid," after the Euclid, Greek Mathematician and Patron Saint of surveyors. Euclid Township was officially formed in 1809. Despite this, Lyndhurst's population consisted mostly of Native American Indians until after the War of 1812. In 1828 Euclid Township was divided into nine districts, with the present area of Lyndhurst becoming district four. From 1877 the main traffic corridor has been Mayfield Road (U.S. Route 322). Initially a wood-planked toll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolingbrook, Illinois
Bolingbrook is a village in Will County, Illinois, Will and DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on Interstate 55 in Illinois, I-55 and U.S. Route 66 in Illinois, Historic Route 66 (Frontage Road). The village was a Planned community, new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s. Bolingbrook experienced rapid growth in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually becoming Will county's second-largest town after Joliet, Illinois, Joliet. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 73,922. As of 2010, it is the 17th-largest incorporated place in Illinois and the state's second-largest village. Geography Bolingbrook is approximately 28 miles southwest of Downtown Chicago. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Bolingbrook has a total area of , of which (or 99.18%) is land and (or 0.82%) is water. Bolingbrook borders the communities of Woodridge, Illinois, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheelersburg, Ohio
Wheelersburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Scioto County, Ohio, United States. It lies along the northern banks of the Ohio River in southern Ohio. Wheelersburg is approximately east of Portsmouth and west of Ironton. It is in Porter Township. The population was 6,531 at the 2020 census. History Wheelersburg was originally called Concord, and under the latter name was platted in 1824. The present name honors Major Porter Wheeler, a pioneer settler. By 1833, Wheelersburg had about 150 inhabitants. A post office called Wheelersburgh was established in 1879, and the name was changed to Wheelersburg in 1893. In 1968, the town was devastated by an F5 tornado that killed seven people. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.36%, is water. Climate Wheelersburg suffered an F5 (maximum wind speeds of 261–318 miles per hour) tornado on April 23, 1968, in which seven people were killed and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
