McCoy: UD Flyers Score TKO Over Davidson
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — The negative part of the University of Dayton basketball team’s split personality surrfaced again Tuesday night. Their modus operandi is to be very, very good (Against Saint Louis last Friday) or very, very bad (Against St. Bonaventure last Tuesday). The Flyers would perplex Sigmund Freud with their floor fluxuations. […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Bounce Back To Beat Billikens
By Hal McCoy St. Louis, MO. — All season long, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde accompanied the University of Dayton basketball team on its road trips. And it was the nasty Mr. Hyde on the floor Tuesday night when the Flyers were decapitated during their misadventure at St. Bonaventur, a 22-point loss. Dr. Jekyll and […]
McCoy: Flyers Fall Flat Against Bonnies
By Hal McCoy Olean, NY — The Road Ogre once again grabbed the University of Dayton basketball team by the throat and choked the life out of it. St. Bonaventure, losers of three straight games, annihilated the Flyers Tuesday night in the Reilly Center, 75-53. That is no typographical error —Seventy-five to Fifty-three. Former UD […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Build Big Lead, Then Hold Off Saint Joseph’s
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There were 18 credentials issued for NBA scouts for Friday’s Saint Joseph’s-Dayton basketball game in always raucous, always filled UD Arena. They ostensibly came to see Xzayvier Brown, whose parents obviously tried to use every seldom-used consonant in his first name. And maybe they were there to check out […]
McCoy: UD Posts Blue Collar, Blue Chip Win At Duquesne
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA — Somebody once said, “Take the high road, the view is better.” So far this season, the Flyers traveled the low road when they visited Atlantic-10 opponents and the view was uglier than a waste dump. That all changed with a vengeance Tuesday night against Duquesne in the UPMC Cooper […]
OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Grant Waxes Eloquently On Flyers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, breaking in a new heater as I pace the room awating the Ohio State-Notre Dame game — and it is No-tra Dame, not Norter Dame. —IT IS SPELLED T-E-A-M: After the University of Dayton basketball team lost three straight Atlantic-10 games, social media was a conflagration […]
McCoy: UD’s L’Etang, Smith Combine on Final Play in OT To Beat Loyola
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — For the University of Dayton Flyers, it was ‘Vive La France’ Saturday afternoon in UD Arena, with a mixture of The Bronx. Amael L’etang, UD’s 7-foot-1 freshman human Eiffel Tower, scored the biggest basket of his fledgling career and the biggest basket of the season for Dayton. L’etang took […]
UD Flyers Flop And Fall Again
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There is a mystery team wearing University of Dayton basketball team uniforms, impostors one and all. Those weren’t The Real Flyers floating around UD Arena like lost butterflies. Those weren’t The Real Flyers taking proverbial punches to the solar plexus from George Mason on UD’s own Blackburn Court. George […]
New UD football coach an emotional guy
By Hal McCoy Trevor Andrews answered his phone, a call from University of Dayton athletic director Neil Sullivan. “Are you ready to be head football coach at the University of Dayton?” Sullivan asked. “Do you seriously have to ask me that?” said Andrews. And on a cold, drizzly afternoon outside UD Arena, Andrews was introduced […]