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UD-WSU together again on the court…sort of.
It looks like Wright State and the University of Dayton will be on the basketball court together this season after all.
Well, sort of.
It will happen in Fort Wayne…and places like Erie, Sioux Falls, Austin and Albuquerque.
The two schools, though, will be represented by well-known proxies and they’ll be on the same team.
The Fort Wayne Mad Ants — a farm team of the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Developmental League — has named Vitaly Potapenko as an assistant coach.
Wright State’s highest profile basketball player ever, Potapenko was a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996, played 10 years in the NBA — with the Cavs, Boston Celtics, Seattle and Sacramento — one season in Spain and has been living in Miami, Florida.
Potapenko was recruited to WSU out of Kiev, Ukraine by then-coach Ralph Underhill. Playing just two seasons for the Raiders, the 6-foot-10 Ukraine Train scored 1,113 points in 56 games and was named first team all league each year.
In last week’s draft, the Mad Ants picked former University of Dayton guard Andres Sandoval, who played for the Flyers from 2006-2008. He’ll join, among others, C. J. Anderson of Xavier, Frank Tolbert of Auburn, Michigan’s Chris Hunter and A.J. Ratliff of Indiana in the Mad Ants preseason camp.
Former DePaul coach Joey Meyer is the Mad Ants head coach. The D League team — along with 15 others spread out from Portand, Maine to Bakersfield, California — begins play Nov. 27.
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By Terry
November 16, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this
This article was about Vitaly Potapenko and not about the Flyers.
By DrJ
November 16, 2009 2:31 PM | Link to this
This article was about Potapenko more than anything else. It mentioned Andres because he is on the team.
By Me
November 16, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this
Why aren’t either one of them on the NBA DLeague website or on those teams rosters? I’m confused but excited to hear this news.
By K C
November 16, 2009 11:10 AM | Link to this
Joey Meyer failed to impress as the DePaul coach, so this team is probably doomed to failure.
By charles2
November 16, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this
why the reference in so many ddn articles about wsu/ud playing again? if ddn wants it to happen for the city or other reasons they can lead as they did in the previous series of contests. it did not happen by accident or innuendo.
By Charles
November 16, 2009 1:44 AM | Link to this
This article decided to mention people worth mentioning Flyer fan. You’re lukcy they mentioned Andres
By Flyer fan
November 15, 2009 10:51 PM | Link to this
Jimmy Binnie is also in this league with the Dakota Wizards. I wish that the article would have mentioned him as well.