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 […]
Flyers Shed Losing Streak…barely
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — Two things attract Jordan Derkack on a basketball floor — the orange paint on the rim and the black stripe of the foul line. Derkack spends more time bull-rushing the rim and dallying at the foul line than a football fan in front of a TV set on Super […]
Saint Loo Flogs Flyers, 102-71
By Hal McCoy St. Louis, MO. — Robby Avila, a bespectacled 6-foot-10 center for Saint Louis, buried a three-pointer ten seconds into the game. . .and this game was over. From there, Saint Louis rained threes on the University of Dayton Flyers as if taking target practice from 23 feet. The Billikens hit 17 of […]
Miller, Rhode Island Stun UD
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — There are some things that are certain — the sun sets in the west, one and one makes two, the Pacific Ocean is deep and the University of Dayton Flyers will lose games they shouldn’t lose. But three in a row? After losing back-to-back games in Philadelphia to lowly-regarded […]
Another UD Disaster
By Hal McCoy PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — For the University of Dayton Flyers it was four days, two losses and suddenly a steep hill to climb. And nobody in a Dayton uniform appears to have a pair of mountain-climbing boots. On Saturday afternoon, the Flyers couldn’t even climb Hawk Hill on the St. Joseph’s campus, losing […]
UD Throws In A Clunker
By Hal McCoy Philadelphia, PA. — The City of Brotherly Love was anything but love for the University of Dayton Flyers basketall troupe Wednesday night. LaSalle Universtiy apparently was not impressed nor intimidated by Las Vegas installing UD as 10 1/2-point favorites to win its sixth straight Atlantic 10 Conference game. The Explorers (7-13, 3-4) […]
Flyers ‘Dunk’ N. Florida
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — With Obi Toppin in the house, the University of Dayton basketball team paid homage to the UD legend with a Symphony of Dunks. Toppin, who dunked 190 times during his two-year career, was in UD Arena Saturday night to be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame. The Flyers […]
UD Nearly Bags BYU
By Hal McCoy Credibility and respect can’t be purchased at Walmart, it must be earned. And although the University of Dayton Flyers lost on Black Friday, 83-79, to ninth-ranked Brigham Young, the college basketball world can describe the Flyers with r-e-s-p-e-c-t. The Flyers, 10 1/2-point underdogs, came within a sliver of cold turkey from pulling […]
UD Bags A Big One
By Hal McCoy Pure pluck. Pure perseverance. Pure positivity. And also any other ‘Ps’ one can come up with to describe what the Dayton Flyers did. That’s what it took for UD to fend off Georgetown in overtime Thanksgiving Night in the ESPN Events Invitational at Disney World in Kissimmee, Fla. After scoring the 84-79 […]