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 […]
Of Sinclair (McNeil), Wright State and UD
By HAL McCOY It’s free. No charge. Just walk right in and sit right down. And two bags of popcorn, a 20-ounce bottle of Diet Pepsi, a 20-ounce bottle of water and a Reese’s Cup cost $4.5o. True, Building 8 on the Sinclair College campus is difficult to locate and bread crumbs are recommended to […]
UD puts on a clinic to shake off Mullins Center bugaboo, rips UMass, 72-48
By HAL McCOY For as long as anybody can remember, the Mullins Center on the University of Massachusetts campus has been a Fieldhouse of Frustration for University of Dayton basketball teams. Obi Toppin was 6-years-old and Josh Cunningham was 8-years old when the Flyers last won a game in the decrepit old joint. UD’s last […]
Flyers hold off furious Davidson finish to post big A-10 win, 74-73
By HAL McCOY For 32 1/2 minutes, the Davidson College basketball team ran into the Perfect Storm and that storm wore the red and blue of the University of Dayton. The Flyers played perfect half-court defense and perfect get-it-inside offense for those 32 1/2 minutes, enabling them to construct a 16-point lead with 7 1/2 […]