ICYMI: Dayton Kicker Gets TD on His Kickoff

Please allow us to explain this headline, because a kicker scoring a TD on his own kickoff isn't so easy to do.

The set up: The University of Dayton played Marist Saturday. The Flyers took a 21-14 lead in the second quarter and Dayton kicker William Will (his real name) kicked off to Marist.

Marist's Lawrence Dickens caught the kick and was running it back when he fumbled.

Amazingly, the ball bounced around and hopped straight up into Will's hands.

The happy kicker ran as fast as he could...and scored a touchdown, putting his team up 28-14. Dayton won the game 31-21...and Will was named Pioneer League Special Teams Player of the Week.

Brackets Continue Implosion With UConn and Dayton

((HT: WSYR-TV Syracuse))

Tyler Ennis' jumper with time running out didn't go in for a change and Dayton's run in the March tournament continued with a 55-53 win over 3rd-seed Syracuse in Round 3...

It was the first game since the Big East Tournament in 1995 that Syracuse failed to make a three-pointer as the Flyers packed it in the paint defensively and dared the Orange to make a shot from outside.

Three of Syracuse's last four losses were by five points or less.

By the way, if the math escaped you temporarily, Syracuse lost six of their last nine. All that after being ranked number one in the country at one point in the season and winning their first 25 in a row before losing to Georgia Tech in ACC play to start the down slide that ended in their second game of the tournament...

Here's the look from Syracuse...


"That thing was on line and he went for the win," Dayton head coach Archie Miller said postgame. "The thing that went through my head was the game at Pitt, when I saw that highlight 7,000 times when he banged the 3. I thought he was going to go to the basket. When I saw him raise up, I didn't feel good about it. But Buffalo's been good to us these last couple of days on the buzzer shots."

The 11-seed now moves on to play the winner of Kansas-Memphis...

The other big win Saturday came from UConn over former Big East counterpart Villanova... a 7-seed knocking off a 2...

Nova had a lead early in the game, but hit a stretch of 11:24 without hitting a shot from the field before sinking a three near the end of the first half to go in trailing 25-24. But, for the second game in a row, UConn's Shabazz Napier carried the Huskies- even with a bruised shin that kept him on the sidelines for a while late in the game.

Napier had 21 in the second half and 25 in the game...

The Huskies play the winner of North Carolina and Iowa State in New York City...
Here's a part of their second half of success...
((HT: NCAA March Madness))

The Art Of The Zinger: Dayton Daily News

Here's their headline...

And it's well-played...

How 'bout that...???

Bison And Flyers Help Thursday Be Thursday

((HT: ValleyNewsLive))

Just so you see what it as like in these two towns after the fact...

Here's the late live shot from Fargo/Spokane
Valley News Live - KVLY/KXJB - Fargo/Grand Forks

And Dayton
((HT: WDTN-TV))


So let Friday be Friday...

Your First Bracket Buster: Dayton

((HT: NCAA/CBS))

Dayton, in all probability, knocked a lot of you from winning your billion dollars from Warren Buffett...

But it won't stop all the spam messages...

Here's how Aaron Craft didn't either get fouled or make the final lay-up of his college career...


Now, why as it that Thad Motta wasn't interested in playing Dayton, again...???

BUZZER BEATER: Devin Oliver Hits A Game Winner To Lead Dayton To A 83-80 Win Over Ole Miss

Dayton's Devin Oliver found the "Tad Pad" to his liking.

Oliver led the Flyers with a career high 26 points but the three most importanlyt won it for Dayton with a long three in overtime.

Thanks Dayton Flyers (Note: The buzzer beater happens at 3:09)

BUZZER BEATER: Southern Cal's Pe'Shon Howard's 3 Defeats Dayton

[HT: Los Angeles Times]

After transferring from Maryland this is Pe'shon Howard's one and only year playing for Southern California and Sunday he gave Trojan fans a shining moment.

Tied at 76 and with 4.7 seconds left Howard took the inbounds pass, dribbled to the right side of the floor and nailed an off-balance 24 foot shot to win it for the Trojans 79-76.

Thanks Pac 12 Network


"J.T. [Terrell] told me if I can't get it to him, I'm coming to you," Howard said,  "I think I'm a good shooter so I was trying to get to the three-point line. So I came across half court and two guys came over late, so I just tried to lean and get the shot off." 

"When it left my hand it felt good and I'm watching the ball. That's in, that's in. "Howard said.  "I had to flop, too, so maybe I could get a foul."

"When you have our four seconds you can at least get to the three point line or close to it." USC head coach Andy Enfield said.   "You don't need to throw up a half-court shot. Our players didn't understand that our last game, and I'm just glad they figured it out."


Howard would score 12 points in the Dayton game and was 3-5 from the three point line.  Very appropriate for Pe'shon Howard to take the shot to win it since he had the hot hand from behind the arc.

Southern California was led by Byron Wesley who scored 26 points and 10 rebounds coming off the bench.