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Flyers not looking past Delaware State
Dayton has a game tonight against Delaware State, which may not be a foe that gets the fans stirred up but, as Wofford proved Sunday, could certainly be a handful for the Flyers.
UD coach Brian Gregory was asked whether his team might have trouble getting fired up for those no-name opponents, given the Flyers’ struggles in a 52-49 win over the Terriers. He promptly answered, “Absolutely not.”
He insisted he had no problem with his team’s intensity level in the opener, just its execution. And he pointed out that the players by now should understand the balance in college basketball and mentioned Kentucky (a 111-103 loser to VMI in its season-opener), Alabama (which dropped a 72-69 decision to Mercer) and Utah (which fell in its home opener to, no lie, Southwest Baptist 80-79).
As point guard Rob Lowery put it after that Wofford squeaker, “You can’t go to sleep on no Division-I team.”
Chris Wright, UD’s star forward, mentioned the difficulty going against lightly regarded opponents not because of complacency, but because of the passion they bring.
“They come in here jacked up and ready to play,” he said. “Schools like that, their guys feel like they should be in the shoes we are, whether it’s Dayton or Xavier or Michigan State. When you play those types of schools in your house, they want to prove the point that they should be in your shoes, and you should be where they are.”
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By A. Patsy
November 19, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
This is good news. Many of us were afraid that the Flyers would be looking past Delaware State toward their big showdown with Bethune-Cookman.