The 2018–19 Wright State Raiders men's basketball team represented

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during the

2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 8, 2019. Pract ...

. The Raiders, led by third-year head coach

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, played their home games at the

Nutter Center The Nutter Center is a multi-purpose arena located at Wright State University, in Fairborn, Ohio. It mainly serves as the home court of the Wright State Raiders men's and women's basketball teams. It is also regularly used as a music venue for ...

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, as members of the

Horizon League The Horizon League is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. Headquartered in Indianapolis, the league's eleven member schools are located in ...

. They finished the season 21–14, 13–5 in Horizon League to be regular season co-champions with

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. They defeated IUPUI and Green Bay to advance to the championship game of the Horizon League tournament where they lost to Northern Kentucky. As regular season league champion, and number 1 seed in their league tournament, who failed to win their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the

National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 2023, all rounds of the tournament are played at various sites across the country whi ...

where they lost in the first round to Clemson.

Previous season

The Raiders finished the 2017–18 season 25–10, 14–4 in Horizon League play to finish in second place. In the Horizon League tournament, they defeated Green Bay,

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, and

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to become Horizon League Tournament champions. This received the Horizon League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, where they lost to

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in the first round.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Awards and honors

Statistics

Source

References

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