UD Advances To NIT Quarterfinals
By Hal McCoy Wilmington, N.C. — As it turns out, the University of Dayton basketball team is Ohio’s last team standing. Yes, it is only the NIT, college basketball’s consolation prize, but the Flyers will take what they can get. And they took it big-time Saturday night on Tobacco Road. The Flyers advanced to the […]
Flyers Batter Bradley
By Hal McCoy Peoria, ILL. — The assignment, if the University of Dayton chose to accept it, was a difficult one. The Flyers not only chose to accept it, they embraced it and passed the test with high-flying colors. After losing the Atlantic 10 Conference final to Virginia Commonwealth University, missing out on an NCAA […]
Flyers Fall In Final, 70-62
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA. — When it comes time for the University of Dayton Flyers to play Virginia Commonwealth University in the Atlantic-10 Conference tournament championship game, it’s The Great Wall of China, the end of a long road, turn out the lights, the party’s over. It happened again Sunday afternoon, as it always […]
Flyers Stop Saint Louis
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA. — The final 26 seconds was played like a recorded television show on fast forward. A blur. Some plays that had everybody saying, “What just happened. . .oh, wait a second, now what happened?” Even the University of Dayton’s final hero, one hero among several, couldn’t recall exactly what happened. […]
UD Flyers Find A Way
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA. — There is Johnny-on-the-spot, but for the University of Dayton basketball team it is Javon-on-the-spot. Whenever the Flyers need a lift, they dial ‘0,’ Javon Bennett’s uniform number and he answers on the first ring. And it happens game after game after game. Who ya gonna call? Javon Bennett. It […]
A Gritty Win For UD
By Hal McCoy Richmond, VA. — Once again, Grant took Richmond. This time, though, it wasn’t U.S. Grant and the Union Army, it was coach Anthony Grant and the UD Flyers. For the fifth time during his University of Dayton tenure, Grant took a team into the University of Richmond’s Robins Center and for the […]
UD Survive Rumble In D.C.
By Hal McCoy Washington, D.C. — In the end, it was a street fight, a barroom brawl, a throwback to the Gillette Friday Night Fights. The University of Dayton Flyers finished with a couple of black eyes, but with a will to win they survived with a 68-66 victory over George Washington Friday night in […]
Flyers Reap Revenge on Saint Louis
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — As they say, payback can be hell. Saint Louis University sashayed into UD Arena Tuesday night, scoffing at the idea that the place was the self-proclaimed, “Epicenter of College Basketball.” What it was for Saint Louis was hell on a hard wood floor as the University of Dayton reaped […]
Flyers Embarrassed At VCU
By Hal McCoy Richmond, VA. — It was Saint Louis deja vu. . .only worse. After the University of Dayton Flyers lost by 31 points to the Saint Louis Billikens, it was thought it couldn’t get worse. It did. The Flyers were overwhelmed, overmatched and overwrought Friday night by Virginia Commonwealth, 99-73. Dayton donned its […]