The University of Dayton Flyers traveled to Oxford, Miss. for only their second true road game of the season and lost to Ole Miss, 76-68, giving the game away by committing 19 turnovers that stifled the Flyers on the offensive end and dropped the record to 7-5 after they had won six of their previous seven games. Read Hal McCoy.
After their five-game winning streak was halted at SMU, the University of Dayton Flyers returned to UD Arena Sunday afternoon and used its pesky press and demonstrative defense to hang a 62-57 defeat on plucky Virginia Tech. UD's R.J. Blakney, a red-shirt freshman from Hagerstown, Md. shot five three-pointers and made all five.
'Big D', not for dunk, or even 'Dallas'...The University of Dayton took a five-game winning streak to Dallas to play their first road game on an opponent's home court and lost to Southern Methodist University, 77-69, after making a furious rally in the final three minutes t0 cut a 13-point SMU lead to three with 40 seconds left. Read Hal McCoy.