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blog: Flyers Struggle Early
MINNEAPOLIS — This isn’t the same Dayton Flyers team that took control of Friday’s first round NCAA Tournament game with West Virginia.
With 9:00 left in the first half of Sunday’s game against Kansas, the Flyers— trailing 19-11 — are playing tentative, throwing the ball away way to often and coming up short on their shots.
Except that is for Luke Fabrizius, who came into the fame at 13:54 and drilled a three-pointer 29 seconds later. And Chris Wright who just slammed a monster dunk at 10:42. Unfortunately, those, and a London Warren steal and score, have been about Dayton’s only highlights.
Granted Kansas, the defending national champs, are better than West Virginia — which finished in the middle of the pack in the Big East — but much of the Flyers early demise here is self-inflicted.
Although I think the Flyers will shake the jitters and play their way back in it, if they don’t they’ll be done.
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