Final scores
– Men’s game: Wright State 67, Detroit Mercy 50
– Women’s game: Wright State 69, Milwaukee 61
The Wright State men’s and women’s basketball team hosted a doubleheader at the Nutter Center on Saturday and swept the opposition with ease, marking the first time since March 2, 2024 that both teams have won on the exact same day.

First up in the men’s game, it was Military Appreciation Day as Clint Sargent’s guys (11-11, 5-6 Horizon) won the 67-50 battle over the Detroit Mercy Titans. The Wright State men was up on top like the Billboard charts from start to finish an opened up the afternoon by scoring the first 11 points of the game thanks to back-to-back threes from Brandon Noel and Keaton Norris, a layup in the paint by Noel, and another three from Alex Huibregtse.
Detroit Mercy was able to cut the lead to no more down to nine at 27-18 following a three-point play from Legend Geeter with 7:12 to go in the first half, but Brandon Noel hit a pair of free throws as WSU went up 29-18. They had the double-digit advantage for the remainder of the day and even was up by as many as 19.
Noel dominated the Titans with his fifth double-double of the season, finishing with 15 points, 12 rebounds, and five assists. He came into the day as the second-leading scorer in the Horizon League at 18.3 points per game.
Norris had 12 points on 4-of-7 made threes, plus three rebounds and four assists. Huibregtse, who leads the conference in offensive rating (125.3), had 11 points of his own. Eight points came from Logan Woods, followed by six points and nine rebounds off the bench from Michael Imariagbe.
Drey Carter, who did not play in Wednesday’s loss against Milwaukee, scored six points on a perfect 3-for-3 shot attempts from the field in nine minutes off the bench.
Wright State shot just 37.1 percent from the field (23-of-62), 32.1 percent from three-point land (9-of-21), and 60 percent on free throws (12-of-20). Despite the Raiders’ poor shooting performance, they outrebounded UDM 52-41 and committed only eight turnovers.
Mark Montgomery’s Titans (6-15, 2-9 Horizon) have now lost six consecutive games and are the second-to-last place team in the conference right in front of Green Bay. Their only player in double-figures was Orlando Lovejoy, who scored 15 points on 6-of-12 shots from the field; while Nate Johnson and TJ Nadeau had eight points each.
UDM shot a poor 30.8 percent from the field (20-of-68) and an abysmal 10 percent on threes (1-of-10), but they were good at the foul line at 81.8 percent (9-of-11) and only turned the ball over twice.
Later on that afternoon in the women’s game, Kari Hoffman and her Raider gals spoiled Kacee Baumhower’s return to the Nutter Center in their 69-61 victory over the Milwaukee Panthers.

Kyle Rechlicz’s Panthers pounced immediately by scoring the first five points of the women’s contest with a three by the coach’s daughter in Payton Rechlicz and a layup from Anna Lutz, but the Raiders countered with an 8-0 run of their own with back-to-back shots from Claire Henson, made free throws from Makiya Miller, and a two-point shot from Lauren Scott.
Later on, Milwaukee was down 18-12 in the opening session until they scored six unanswered points: back-to-back buckets near the end of the first quarter from Payton Rechlicz and a pair of free throws from Kamy Peppler to start the second quarter, which tied it up at 18.
Then, both squads traded 5-0 runs. It started with Wright State as Henson hit a three, followed by a bucket from Amaya Staton that made it 23-18. Then, Milwaukee answered back with a three from Jorey Buwalda and more made foul shots from Kamy Peppler to knot it back up at 23. However, the green and gold then went on to score eight unanswered points with both a layup and a three from Scott, which was followed up by an Abbie Riddle three-point play to make it 31-23.
Near the end of the second period, WSU’s lead grew to nine as Macie Taylor scored four straight points to make it 35-26 with 1:36 to go in the quarter, but Milwaukee scored four of the next six points thanks to free throws by Grace Lomen and Baumhower as the Panthers trailed 37-30 at recess.
The Wright State women scored the first five points of the third quarter with a three from Miller and a layup from Staton off a Miller miss to make it a 12-point lead at 42-30. However, Milwaukee cut the deficit to four with a Kallie Peppler layup and a free throw from Buwalda to make it 51-47 going into the final stanza and even outscored WSU 17-14 in the third period.
In the fourth quarter, the Raiders were held without a field goal for the last 5:57 of the game, but they still scored 10 of the last 20 points of the day – all on free throws – to come away with the win.
The Wright State women (5-16, 3-8 Horizon) also didn’t shoot too good from the floor, either. They were 39.3 percent from the field (24-of-61), 29.4 percent from three-point land (5-of-17), and 64 percent on free throws (16-of-25). But on a positive note besides the win, they only committed nine turnovers. It’s the first time since January of 2023 that Hoffman’s Raider women have had single digit turnovers in back-to-back games.
Staton recorded her sixth double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds, while Miller had 11 points (6/8 FT) and seven rebounds of her own. That was followed by nine points each from Henson and Scott, eight points from Taylor, and seven points and six rebounds from Riddle.
Henson, who went into the day with the third-most turnovers in the conference (61), never turned it over a single time in her 27 minutes of action. Along with her nine points, she had a trio of steals and a pair of blocked shots.
Like the Detroit Mercy men, Kyle Rechlicz’s Panther women (4-18, 1-10 Horizon) have now lost their sixth straight contest as well, and they are still at the very bottom of the Horizon League standings behind Wright State. Baumhower led the team with 13 points on 4-of-14 made shots from the field to go along with five rebounds and two steals, but she turned the ball over five times and fouled out with 41 seconds left in the game.
Payton Rechlicz followed it up with 11 points on an efficient 4-of-5 shooting and pulled down rebounds as well. The Peppler sisters combined for 16 points total (nine from Kamy, seven from Kallie), while Buwalda was both a point and a rebound shy of a double-double off the bench (nine points and nine rebounds). Kamy Peppler turned the ball twice in the game to give her total of 73 turnovers on the day, which leads the Horizon League.
Milwaukee shot worse than Wright State from the field as they made only 32.7 percent of their overall shots (18-of-55) and 26.7 percent of their threes (6-of-23), but they hit an outstanding 91.5 percent of their foul shots (19-of-21) and outrebounded WSU 41-39. Ironically, the Panthers made 50 percent of their shots from the floor in the first quarter (5-of-10).
Up next for Wright State:
– The women’s team will head east to Moon Township, PA to visit the Robert Morris Colonials on Wednesday, January 29 at 7ET.
– The men’s team will go up northeast for a rematch with the Youngstown State Penguins on Thursday, January 30 at 6:30ET.
– Both games can be seen on ESPN Plus.