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Monday, February 16, 2009
Flyers make AP poll at No. 25
Dayton is ranked 25th nationally in the Associated Press Top 25 after completing a 2-0 week that included a 71-58 win over Xavier, it was announced today.
The Flyers have the 26th-most votes in the ESPN-USA Today coaches Top 25.
UD is ranked for the first time since climbing as high as 14th in the polls last year.
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UD basketball: The Week Ahead
Game: at Saint Louis (15-10, 6-5) at 8 p.m. Saturday (Channel 7)
UD has just one game this week. Each A-10 team is supposed to have two weeks without a weekday game, but playing four times in the Chicago Invitational Challenge wiped out the Flyers’ break in the non-league season.
Scouting Saint Louis: The Billikens are coming off a 69-61 loss at Rhode Island on Saturday, snapping a four-game winning streak. Freshman Kwamain Mitchell led the Billikens with 17 points. They dropped a 47-46 decision at Dayton on Jan. 29 but had the ball in the waning seconds with a chance to win. Mitchell missed a driving lay-up with three ticks left to allow UD to escape.
Going into the Rhode Island game, Saint Louis coach Rick Majerus said: “Of all the games we won, the best game we played was Dayton and we lost…. We played very, very well and if you keep playing well, eventually you’re going to win.”
Saint Louis was ranked 16th nationally in scoring defense going into the Rhode Island game, allowing 59.1 points.
UD-Richmond notes: The Flyers had four three-point plays (the old-fashioned kind): one each by Chris Wright, Marcus Johnson, Kurt Huelsman and Charles Little. They could have had three more, but Devin Searcy, London Warren and Wright couldn’t convert their free throws.
• UD needs three more victories to tie the school record for consecutive home wins at 21 in a row. The record was set over two seasons from 1959-61.
• In their first game without back-up point guard Rob Lowery, the Flyers upped starter London Warren’s playing time, and he responded with one of his best games of the season: 10 points, six assists, one turnover in 24 minutes.
Stephen Thomas played 16 minutes and had a decent stat line: four points, two assists and no turnovers.
Xavier recap: Brian Gregory finally got what he’s been wanting against Xavier last Wednesday: a fair fight.
The UD coach pointed out that injuries have impacted the rivalry during his tenure — for both sides.
The Flyers had dropped six straight to the Musketeers the last two years before pulling out a 71-58 win in the first meeting this season. But forward Chris Wright missed all three games last year because of a fractured ankle, and forward Charles Little also missed one of the three with a broken bone in his foot.
In 2006-07, forward Monty Scott missed a regular-season game with the Musketeers because of a knee injury, and guard Marcus Johnson joined Scott on the sidelines when the teams met in the Atlantic 10 tourney because of an ankle sprain.
Xavier also has had its share of ailments. Forward Brian Thornton missed UD’s 66-62 win in 2005-06 with an ankle injury, and forward Josh Duncan sat out one of the games two years ago because of a sprained ankle.
“The thing I was excited about was that it was the first time in a long time both teams were completely healthy, and we’d see how the teams stacked up when they had all their players,” Gregory said.
“You saw a great game. You saw two realy good teams playing extremely hard, and our guys applied great pressure and kept their poise on offense.”
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