OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Flyers dominate A-10 ‘Rookie’ award
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, in search of a stronger heater because it is colder there when the heater shuts down than Mammoth Cave, Ky. —There is an abundance of freshmen and first-year basketball players in the Atlantic 10 Conference, but folks must wonder if the University of Dayton cornered the […]
UD Flyers playing like Secretariat with fast starts
By Hal McCoy If they put saddles on the University of Dayton’s starting five, they would resemble the iconic thoroughbred Secretariat breaking from the starting gate. Earlier this week, the Flyers broke from the gate with an 18-2 start, burying Alabama State shortly after they took off their pre-game practice shirts. Pretty good, huh? Well, […]
UD Flyers nip Belmont to take ESPN Events title
By Hal McCoy The glass slippers still fit Cinderella and right now they are worn by the University of Dayton basketball team. When the Flyers arrived at Disney World for the ESPN Events Invitational, they were thought of as more like Mickey Mouse than Cinderella. They came to the eight-team tournament as the only team […]
UD Flyers shock the basketball world with win over No. 4 Kansas, 74-73
By Hal McCoy It is extremely easy to get ESPN analyst Dickie Vitale excitable, but he was above and beyond Saturday when the University Dayton stunned the basketball world. The Flyers, prohibitive underdogs to Kansas, the No. 4 team in the nation, pulled the unfathomable upset, 74-73, in the ESPN Events Invitational in Orlando, Fla. […]
UD Flyers thaw out in Florida, stun Miami, 76-60
By Hal McCoy Just when it looked as if the University of Dayton basketball team would be in a season-long deep freeze, they went to Florida and thawed out. The Flyers, losers of three straight to mediocre mid-major teams, scored a major upset on Thanksgiving Day in the ESPN Events Invitational Tournament in Orlando, Fla. […]
UD Flyers: A wild, wild winner in double overtime
By Hal McCoy For the first 20 minutes Saturday afternoon, it looked as if the University of Dayton basketball team’s trip to Atlanta was to practice its turnovers in a facility other than UD Arena. In their first three games this season, the Flyers won two, despite bundles and bundles of turnovers. And it was […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘The Sounds of Silence’ in UD Arena
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, exhilirated that the Cleveland Browns get to play on Monday Night Football in a big game against the Baltimore Ravens — the team that is the REAL Cleveland Browns, moved to Baltimore by Art Modell, the grinch who stole football from Cleveland. —The University of Dayton, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Obi’s mom drove him, now she drives her own car
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, where it brought to tears myself when I saw Obi Toppin sobbing with joy after the New York Knicks select him No. 1 in the NBA draft: —What kind of son is the former University of Dayton’s ‘Dunkin Delight’ Obi Toppin? A mother’s delight. Toppin doesn’t […]
OBSERVATIONS: Votto practicing his ‘batting eye?’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, proud as a papa peacock that I live in the Ohio College Basketball Capital with the mammoth success of the Dayton Flyers and the Wright State Raiders. —One thing is certain, Joey Votto is working on drawing walks this spring. His batting average is .077 but […]