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 […]
Flyers flawless while flailing Rhode Island, 77-48
By HAL McCOY It was almost as if University of Dayton basketball coach Anthony Grant sat his team down after a plug-ugly loss at Saint Louis early in the week and said as they watched video, “Don’t do that, don’t do that and don’t do that. Do this and do this and do this.” And […]
Saint Louis dominates offensive glass, leaves Flyers shattered
By HAL McCOY With a golden opportunity under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the University of Dayton Flyers might have better spent their time Tuesday night riding the tram to the top of the Arch. Down on Mother Earth in Chaifetz Arena, the Flyers were unfrocked by Saint Louis University, 73-60. The Flyers arrived […]
Flyers can’t sink threes, fall to George Mason, 67-63
By HAL McCOY It was as if the University of Dayton basketball team sent an engraved invitation into the George Mason huddle that said, “We cordially invite you to win this game. R.S.V.P.” George Mason responded with, “Yes, thank you, we’ll take it.” And take it they did, a 67-63 victory over the Flyers Wednesday […]
Flyers show spunk in double OT win at St. Bona
By HAL McCOY On paper, it may have looked as if the University of Dayton basketball teams had an easy assignment Saturday afternoon in Olean, N.Y. They were playing St. Bonaventure, owner of a 6-and-11 record and missing its two starting guards, out with concussion protocols. But they don’t play on paper. They play at […]
Observations: Will there be ‘Gray’ skies over Cincinnati’s pitching mound
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave while waiting for the Los Angeles Rams to beat the New Orleans Saints and the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the New England Patriots in the NFL playoffs. It could be a long wait. It came as no shock that The Brady Bunch (the Patriots) beat […]
Flyers’ hibernation the final four minutes leads to loss to VCU, 76-71
By HAL McCOY With an opportunity to score a significant victory Wednesday night at Virginia Commonwealth, the University of Dayton offense retreated into an igloo and stayed there for the last four minutes of the game. The outcome was a disheartening 76-71 defeat, dropping the Flyers to 3-and-1 in the Atlantic 10 and snapping a […]