Dayton Flyers
College basketball scoring reaches 60-year low
The caliber of the play in Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan in the NCAA tournament final was applauded by many because of the high-powered offenses on display.Given the ever-slowing pace in college basketball, the game also was an anomaly.Overall scoring in 2012-13 was 67.5 points per team, marking four straight ...
Flyers ready to go for A-10 softball tourney
Dayton softball coach Cara LaPlaca has checked off one goal of turning the Flyers into regular participants in the six-team Atlantic 10 tournament. Her next objective is to put an end to a history of early exits. The sixth-seeded Flyers will play in the double-elimination event for the second time ...
UD softball team making strides
Cara LaPlaca knew what she was getting into when she was hired as Dayton women’s softball coach in 2008. The Flyers had plummeted so far in the Atlantic 10 that they couldn’t see the top teams in the conference without a Hubble telescope. “Our first goals were to change the ...
UD football players trying new, safer helmet
What a difference between this spring and last. “I got five stingers within three or four practices last spring,” Dayton Flyers junior safety Nick Weston said of the football injury that pinches a nerve going from the spinal cord or neck into the arm and sends shooting pain, then numbness, ...
Arch: UD’s MacKay to be object of Wildcats’ attack
If they had set this pregame press conference to music, you’d have heard the haunting theme song of Jaws. Playing the part of the skinny-dipping party girl swimming obliviously in the lagoon would be University of Dayton point guard Sam MacKay. As for that toothy great white shark rising up ...
UK happy to have CJ grad Walker
Although the University of Dayton women will definitely get less of Samarie Walker on Tuesday than there once was, it’s not something the Flyers can really capitalize on when they meet the Kentucky Wildcats in the second round of the women’s NCAA tournament at Carnesecca Arena.Two months ago the Cat’s ...
Reports: Atlantic 10 to add George Mason
Few expected the Atlantic 10 to stand pat after the losses of Xavier and Butler to the new Big East and Temple and Charlotte to other conferences for football reasons.The league is adding George Mason, according to multiple outlets. A news conference is scheduled for today.George Mason is a strong ...
Cardiac Flyers women show heart in NCAA tourney win
It’s probably not what the doctor ordered, but it was pretty good medicine after all. The Dayton Flyers had just beaten St. John’s 96-90 in an exhausting, gut-wrenching, bloody double overtime game on the Red Storm’s home court Sunday — the first two-overtime game in the NCAA women’s tournament in ...
5 sports storylines to watch this week
CBI, Dayton: The College Basketball Invitational returns to the Nutter Center tonight as Wright State (22-12) hosts Richmond (19-14) in the quarterfinals. WSU attempts to build on momentum from its first postseason victory (excluding league tournaments), a 72-52 win over Tulsa. Richmond advanced with a 76-71 win against Bryant. Keeping ...
Dayton passed over by Big East
The new Big East officially passed over Dayton and picked Xavier, Butler and Creighton to join the Catholic 7 schools to begin play in 2013-14. Dayton’s hope now is that the new league isn’t finished expanding. While Xavier and Butler were considered shoo-ins all along to be included, Creighton emerged ...
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