Duquesne hands Flyers loss in A-10 opener
By HAL McCOY The Atlantic 10 basketball conference obviously can’t count — there are 14 teams in the Atlantic 10. And just as obviously those close to the conference are terrible prognosticators. Before the season began, it was predicted that the University of Dayton would finish fifth in the league this year and that Duquesne […]
Horrendous second half dooms Flyers
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton basketball team played a magnificent first half Tuesday night in Maraga, Calif., against St. Mary’s College. Unfortunately for the Flyers, even on the west coast they play two halves and the second half was 20 minutes of misery that led to a 69-54 defeat. The Flyers played sticky […]
Too many three-point misses dooms Flyers
By HAL McCOY The young and inexperienced University of Dayton basketball team played like a young and inexperienced basketball team Sunday afternoon in the Charleston Classic. In a season during which the Flyers will learn some valuable lessons, many of them painful, they learned a couple Sunday during a 75-67 loss to Old Dominion. ONE: […]
UD loses but The Greek Freak II emerges
By HAL McCOY The Young & The Restless University of Dayton basketball team, under new coach Anthony Grant, is expected to find a few lumps of coal on the floor this season. They began the season with the seventh fewest returning minutes from is returning players — experience at its lowest common denominator. And they […]
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UD loses as Scoochie gets little support
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton and Wichita State basketball teams — two light heavyweights — slugged it out Friday night in Indianapolis in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Light heavyweights? That’s what the NCAA selection committee thought. Those, though, were two heavyweights slugging it out as both teams played with […]
‘Masked Man’ knocks off Flyers, 73-67
By HAL McCOY Davidson’s Jack Gibbs wears a face mask, padding on his shoulder and a knee brace. He probably should play in a suit of armor. But on Friday afternoon he also wore a halo and a set of angel wings against the University of Dayton in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. Gibbs put […]
Smith’s overtime work saves Flyers
By HAL McCOY For 40 minutes, University of Dayton point guard Scoochie Smith was the Nowhere Man. He sat for 10 of those 40 minutes with foul miseries and in regulation time he took one shot. And missed. But when his team came back from the graveyard, down 13 points with 7:42 left against Davidson […]
Flyers’ defense strangles Saint Louis
By HAL McCOY On this night, the St. Louis Gateway Arch couldn’t have scored on the Dayton Flyers. CBS/Sports broadcasters Brent Stover and Bob Wenzel jabbered on-and-on-and on about UD’s defense in the first half Tuesday night at the Chaifetz Arena. They seemed amazed that the strangling UD defense contested every shot, forced bad shots […]