Valpo Zip Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 (20)Rhode Island 83 (22)Dayton 92The game was never close.Did we give Dayton their toughest game at their arena? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Dang, SK, I must have been watching a different game. The Flyers jumped out to a 54-41 half time lead, then tried to give the game away. I would estimate that URI closed to three for several dicey, scary minutes. An excellent three ball by Marcus Johnson (Akron St. V- St. M) gave the Flyers a seven point lead with two minutesremaining. URI did a lot of fouling on the inbound. UD managed to clank a couple of the freebies. Then Jim Barron of URI (coach's son) nailed a trey to make itvery interesting. Fortunately Johnson stepped up and knocked in two free throws. Big mistake was fouling Brian Roberts who promptly put the game away.It was close. And worth the five buck investment to activate CSTV and some Fox sports channels for a month.Yes, SK, the Dayton TV announcers were chuck full of kudos for the Zips. Albeit, they never mentioned us as being the toughest game. I believe we were. After all, we arethe only team to stretch them to double overtime. Plus, it took a bad call to end the Zips night. Wonder if we finally pick up a few votes. This game should not knock URI out of the top twenty-five. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 know one outside of dayton & akron knows that we took them through 2 overtimes, and no one outside of akron cares. 'W' for dayton, 'L' for akron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 know one outside of dayton & akron knows that we took them through 2 overtimes, and no one outside of akron cares. 'W' for dayton, 'L' for akronSad, but unfortunately true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 In any tourney selection committee's eyes, Miami's win vs. Xavier (#18) is 10X better than our close loss to Dayton. We needed to beat them. Close losses are worthless to anyone outside of Akron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I agree. We needed to win. I'm not sure if we're ready quite yet to be getting "also" votes with the losses to Portland State and Winthrop hanging on our resume. But, if we can keep winning in the conference for another 4-5 games, we might be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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