UD scores points in flurries to hold off Richmond, 87-79
By HAL McCOY The script was familiar for the University of Dayton basketball team Saturday night in Richmond. And as long as it works, why not keep using it? As they have done time and time and time again this season, the Flyers used some explosive runs to score an 87-79 victory over a feisty […]
Jalen (Clutcher) Crutcher’s ‘three’ at buzzer beats Saint Louis in overtime
By HAL McCOY The Saint Louis University basketball team wears an imprint of the Gateway Arch on their white home uniforms, a landmark on the banks of the Mississippi River that is 630 feet tall. And with 7:40 left in a basketball game at Chaifetz Arena Friday night, the University of Dayton Flyers trailed Saint […]
Flyers overcome early struggles to beat Saint Joseph’s
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton Flyers basketball team answered three poignant questions about itself Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia — questions they hoped they’d never have to confront. —Can they win a game when they played relatively poorly against a bad team? Yes. —Can they win a game when superstar Obi Toppin becomes a […]
UD annihilates LaSalle in Philly, 84-58
By HAL McCOY The school motto on the University of Dayton campus is: “Our home is a powerhouse.” That motto certainly fits the school’s basketball team because the University of Dayton Flyers are a certified powerhouse. And they seem to get better and better and better with each passing game. Some solid evidence surfaced Thursday […]
Toppin dunks 10 times as Flyers bury North Florida, 77-59
By HAL McCOY There once was a team, back in the early 1980s, that called itself Phi Slama Jama. It was the University of Houston and the fraternity nickname came from the fact that the team dunked, dunked, dunked and dunked some more. On Monday night in UD Arena, the University of Dayton Flyers concocted […]
Watson, Chatman carry Flyers past Grambling, 81-53, with career bests
By HAL McCOY If the University of Dayton basketball team scanned the statistics of Grambling State’s early-season games, they might have entered Monday’s night’s game at UD Arena with some trepidation. Early in the season Grambling scored 145 points in one game and 102 in another. But the 145 came against a school called Ecclesia […]
OBSERVATIONS: A view from the Sun Room rocking chair
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room, staying within reach of my walker and those infernal plastic urinals. Nadine asked me today when is the best time to check my blood pressure and I said, “Well, in the hospital it was every time I went to sleep.” —QUOTE: From Ronald Dahl, “Those who […]
UD throws in a clinker and a stinker and is out of the A-10 tournament
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton picked the worst possible time to play patty-cake basketball, permitting a muscular and physical Saint Louis University team to impose its will on the Flyers. The result was one-and done,and not really so well done, for the Flyers, a 64-55 loser in their first game in the Atlantic […]
Observations: Grant confident Flyers ready ‘for a run’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the cozy, comfort of the Man Cave while wondering why in the name of stitched baseballs that college baseball teams schedule home games in early March in Ohio. Both the University of Dayton and Wright State are scheduled to play games in Dayton Thursday through Sunday. Wonder how many […]