For sheet historical enjoyment, google Dayton NCAA Basketball History through ESPN and focus on 1965, 66 and 67. I started Sept. 64 graduated May 68 so I remember these games and times. Open up each bracket. Look at the teams we played and who were in the tournament and try to remember some of those very good basketball coaches.
1965 - We beat Ohio U by 1. Buses around midnight brought students to the airport to meet the team coming home and we were running all around the airport and onto the field. I can still remember the looks on people there. Security was not so good then. Then we lost in the regional semi to Michigan by 27.
1966 - We beat Miami Ohio by 7 and lost to Kentucky in the regional by 7.
1967 - Beat Western Kentucky by 2. Beat Tennessee by 1. Campus went bonkers. Beat Virginia Tech by 5 in OT and then beat NC by 14.
Quite a record for a little Catholic school in southwestern Ohio although we were a basketball power at that time. A lot of coaching credit goes to
Donoher. With the teams and personnel we had, a lot of coaches would never have gotten UD that far. I was also at the game in Madison Square Garden one year when we beat Houston, who had Don Chaney and Elvin Hayes on the time.
Great times and a credit to Donoher. Too bad they waited so long to recognize him.
