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Monday, November 23, 2009
Flyers fall out of AP basketball poll
The Dayton Flyers dropped out of this week’s Associated Press men’s basketball poll. UD, ranked 18th last week, is in the “receiving votes” category in the poll released today.
Three teams that weren’t ranked last week are in this week’s poll: Syracuse (10th), Notre Dame (23rd) and Vanderbilt (24th).
Kansas, Michigan State and Texas remain 1-2-3. Ohio State dropped to slots to No. 17.
Besides UD, which went 1-2 in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Classic over the weekend, Xavier is the only other Atlantic 10 team mentioned. The Musketeers also received votes (67). That puts them a few slots ahead of UD, which received 48 votes.
IN THE WOMEN’S POLL, UD is in the receiving votes category, with 39. That would rank the Flyers 28th in the poll.
The UD women are 4-1 after winning the Purdue Basketball Travelers Classic last weekend in West Lafayette, Ind.
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TweetWright knows team needs more composure
Dayton knows how to play with great effort, but the next step for this team will be playing with a high degree of smarts, too.
Coach Brian Gregory has been hammering that into his players, and they seem to be getting the message.
Chris Wright is normally a happy-go-lucky sort, but he was downcast while exiting the Coliseo de Puerto Rico after an 83-75 loss to Kansas State on Sunday, knowing the Flyers fell short in the basketball-savvy department.
“I thought we fought hard and played hard, but when you’re playing good teams, you have to play more than just hard. You have to play smart, too,” Wright said. “At different points of the game, we were playing with energy and effort and smartness, but it’s something we have to get consistent at during practice to help us win games.”
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