Observations: Once again, UD or Wright State?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer get more TV face time than Shaquille O’Neal and set an ABC-TV record from grimaces and grabbing the top of the head with both hands. His team needs to hold the football with both hands. —Let the heated […]
Observations: UD uses pickles for medicinal purposes
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after covering the UD-North Florida basketball game for PressProsMagazine and discovering that Ohio State can play defense, except it was the basketball team doing it in Cincinnati, stunning the Bearcats, 64-56. —It isn’t clear if the University of Dayton discovered this on a grant from the […]
UD newcomers Matos, Toppin make exciting debuts
By HAL McCOY The not-finished cosmetics, part of the $72 million makeover of University of Dayton Arena, was evident and the new uniforms worn by the Flyers basketball team were spiffy. As added trinkets, the visiting Capital University team is coached by UD Hall of Famer Damon Goodwin and one of the three officials was […]
CBS ranks Wright State over UD in Ohio basketball
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while awaiting a dinner delivery from Door Dash, the best innovation since the drive-thru at Wendy’s. —The University of Dayton still refuses to meet Wright State University in basketball, not on its court, not on WSU’s court, not on a neutral court, not in a back […]
Flyers lose, but go down scrapping
By HAL McCOY A long and mostly disappointing University of Dayton basketball season came to a crashing conclusion Thursday afternoon in the nation’s capital. The Flyers, though, did not end their season without a scrappy fight against Virginia Commonwealth in their first game (and last) of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. It was one-and-done for […]
Flyers throw in another ‘stinker’ at La Salle
By HAL McCOY Just when one swears the University of Dayton Flyers can not possibly play worse, one is proved a liar. Just one game ago, at Rhode Island, the Flyers played their worst half of the season, a second half wipeout by the Rams. So, one game later, playing at La Salle, the Flyers […]
Rhode Island buries Flyers in the second half
By HAL McCOY For 20 minutes the University of Dayton Flyers were flyin’ high against the Rhode Island Rams, the best team, by far, in the Atlantic 10 Conference. And because they are the best team, Rhode Island was not flustered when UD led by seven late in the first half and Rhode Island led […]
UD wins gold, silver against Fordham’s ‘international’ basketball team
By HAL McCOY DAYTON — When the starting lineup for Fordham University was announced Saturday night in University of Dayton Arena, the student section chanted, “USA, USA, USA.” That’s because Fordham’s starting five was entirely international — two from the Czech Republic and one from Canada, one from Turkey and one from Montenegro. And if […]
Flyers lay chocolate egg on Valentine’s Day
By HAL McCOY Of all the bad games the University of Dayton Flyers have played this season, and there have been some real stinkers, they outdid themselves Wednesday night. It was a Valentine’s Day mess. Playing a not-very-good George Mason team, a team almost as young as the Flyers, UD was cannon fodder for the […]