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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lowery big loss going into NCAA tourney
Dayton has been snake-bitten the last two years, losing freshman star Chris Wright for 11 weeks last season, which probably cost the team an NCAA bid, and suffering another setback with the loss of point guard Rob Lowery this season.
The 6-foot-3 junior brought a swagger to the team and is also someone who could create his own shot. He was the Flyers’ third-leading scorer, and for a team that’s often challenged on the offensive end, that’s a huge blow.
UD was 22-3 with Lowery and has gone 4-4 without him.
“He gave us different looks,” senior forward Charles Little said. “It sucks that he can’t be there. He was in my room (Sunday) night a little bit, and he was down about not not being able to play.”
UD coach Brian Gregory said where Lowery is missed most is in his “ability to wear down the other team’s point guard. But this team, maybe better than last year, has accepted injuries and has been able to adjust.”
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UD’s odds to win it all: 750-to-1
I was cruising through USA Today’s NCAA tournament preview section yesterday and stumbled upon Danny Sheridan’s odds to win it all.
Sheridan has UD at 750:1. That’s the 46th-best odds on the list of 65 teams. So does that mean that Vegas would’ve made the Flyers a 12 seed?
West Virginia, the Flyers’ first-round opponent, is a 60:1 pick. The Mountaineers have the 19th-best odds, which means they’d be a 5 seed if you went with the odds.
That is not bad news if you’re a Flyer fan, of course, because 12 seeds historically give 5 seeds a tough time.
In case you were wondering, Sheridan’s favorite is North Carolina, at 4:1.
Odds of other regional teams of interest:
Ohio State is 90:1. Xavier is 100:1. Butler is 125:1 and right in the middle of the pack.
Temple, like UD, is 750:1.
The longest long shot is Chattanooga, at 5 trillion-to-1. To be honest, I didn’t even know Chattanooga was in the tourney, so that makes sense.
