UD loses but The Greek Freak II emerges
By HAL McCOY The Young & The Restless University of Dayton basketball team, under new coach Anthony Grant, is expected to find a few lumps of coal on the floor this season. They began the season with the seventh fewest returning minutes from is returning players — experience at its lowest common denominator. And they […]
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UD loses as Scoochie gets little support
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton and Wichita State basketball teams — two light heavyweights — slugged it out Friday night in Indianapolis in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Light heavyweights? That’s what the NCAA selection committee thought. Those, though, were two heavyweights slugging it out as both teams played with […]
‘Masked Man’ knocks off Flyers, 73-67
By HAL McCOY Davidson’s Jack Gibbs wears a face mask, padding on his shoulder and a knee brace. He probably should play in a suit of armor. But on Friday afternoon he also wore a halo and a set of angel wings against the University of Dayton in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. Gibbs put […]
Smith’s overtime work saves Flyers
By HAL McCOY For 40 minutes, University of Dayton point guard Scoochie Smith was the Nowhere Man. He sat for 10 of those 40 minutes with foul miseries and in regulation time he took one shot. And missed. But when his team came back from the graveyard, down 13 points with 7:42 left against Davidson […]
Flyers’ defense strangles Saint Louis
By HAL McCOY On this night, the St. Louis Gateway Arch couldn’t have scored on the Dayton Flyers. CBS/Sports broadcasters Brent Stover and Bob Wenzel jabbered on-and-on-and on about UD’s defense in the first half Tuesday night at the Chaifetz Arena. They seemed amazed that the strangling UD defense contested every shot, forced bad shots […]
UD’s motto: ‘Whatever it takes’
By HAL McCOY One of the favorite quotes uttered all season by University of Dayton senior forward Kendall Pollard is, “Whatever it takes.” And once again the Flyers put that quote to good use during a rugged night at the University of Rhode Island. What it took Friday night was a lot of intensity, a […]
Flyers score important win at Fordham
By HAL McCOY For years and years, a trip to New York to play Fordham University was like a leisurely afternoon stroll through Central Park. It was a game most teams could mark in the ‘W’ column before the first whistle was blown. Not any more. Now it is like a creep through Central Park […]
Flyers shock Bonnie with avalance of 3s
By HAL McCOY OLEAN, N.Y. — Former major league catcher/broadcaster/humorist Joe Garagiola wrote a book, “Baseball Is a Funny Game.” Baseball isn’t any funnier than college basketball and the University of Dayton Flyers proved that Tuesday night. Only the St. Bonaventure Bonnies failed to see the humor in UD’s 90-74 stunner. JUST FIVE DAYS AGO, […]