HUGE Brass Dnutz Award goes to....

[rollo]

WOW! So many choices...

[Southwest]

Gotta go with DeShawn, but plenty of nuts to go around!

[FlyingArrow]

Pierre's free throws were awesome, but gotta go with Sanford for the game winner. The CBS color guys dubbed it 'the kiss'... a play that's going to be remembered for a long time. Although hopefully the next NCAA win will be just a couple days away instead of 5 years from now. (Or 19 like it was from Negele to Wright.)

[DetroitFlyer]

I rarely vote in the poll, but a go to guy at the end of close games has been a glaring weakness for the Flyers this year. That shot, under unreal pressure was absolutely amazing!

[Ready Action]

I gotta go with a write-in vote and select the NCAA "March Madness Live" app as it allowed me to see that fantastic game while at work!!!

[FLYER5]

No Kavanaugh in the poll!?! Are you blind!?! I vote for Matty..

[FlyingArrow]

Great news - DMO can make up for the missed free throws in the next game.

[FLYER5]

We had one big play well and he played exceptionally well, imo..

[dnutz77]

Originally Posted by Ready Action I gotta go with a write-in vote and select the NCAA "March Madness Live" app as it allowed me to see that fantastic game while at work!!!

Me as well! Watched it on the iPad until the end. At that point I switched to the bosses big screen since he is at the Pentagon

[Tony T 71]

Everyone who played!!!

[Flyer69ers]

I vote Dayton Flyers - players and fans!

it IS a great day to be a FLYER

[San Diego Flyer]

Sanford, for the shot we desperately needed for all the Flyer Faithful wherever they live. This helps balance the St Joes screwing, the phantom call in Tucson in the NCAA's a decade ago.

We got a break playing in Buffalo. If that game was in Columbus, Craft shoots 2 free throws and beats us. We got a neutral site non-call at the end and we earned it.

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[priceg75]

Hard to pick between DP and VS, but you gotta go with Vee, I think... Scoring against the scrappiest player in the history of the world according to, well, everyone.

[forego1]

just RIDICULOUSLY mind altering!!!!!! I rooted louder than anytime in my life!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pmcmullen]

Vee definitely showed his brass (x2) with that shot, but Pierre showed all three pieces of his wedding tackle knocking down those free throws.

[Windy City Flyer]

Without knocking down three straight free throws, the Vee play never happens.

[UDBaby]

Incredible....Total team W....

Kavs in first half...great D and stones of stone by Vee hitting that shot.

I'm always happy to be a Flyer but happy as hell today!!!

[Sea Bass]

in addition Pollard gets a lot of minutes ... and plays very well. His minutes today were not a response to foul trouble.

[westchesterflyer]

Archie! What a leader!

[Sticks 'n Stearns]

The entire team and coaching staff. And the bar owner who could've easily thrown me out for dancing around and yelling at the top of my lungs when Craft's shot rolled off the rim.
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[66flyer]

OMG! It was a total package. Can't single anyone out! Just the best game, maybe even better than beating WVU 5 yrs ago. I watched that game in the concession area of the arena and didn't watch the game I paid for, lol.

[Sea Bass]

True team effort today.

High fives all the way around.

[San Diego Flyer]

Originally Posted by Windy City Flyer Without knocking down three straight free throws, the Vee play never happens.

That's not accurate. 26 seconds of play left. IF Pierre only makes one, Craft doesn't go to the bucket because OSU is ahead. Then the parade of free throws starts and OSU is only shooting 67% from the line. The lead could have changed 3 time in that span.

[Avid Flyer]

I am going with Vee Sanford, he drove on the best defender in the Big Ten and possibly nation and got a step on him and banked the winner.

Kudos also to the players who stood their ground when Craft sped up the floor for the last second shot. I believe Craft was trying to make contact and draw a foul but the refs weren't buying it.

[UDBrian]

Have to feel great for Vee. He transferred to ud in the hopes of doing more in basketball than appeared possible at his previous school Then he hits the winning shot in a tournament game which is obviously something he will never forget

[San Diego Flyer]

Especially because it came against tOSU, neither will we!

[shocka43]

35 set the tone for the game and softened up the middle. He showed the weakness of OSU of not having a big solid body in the middle. Hats off to the entire team, but Vee deserves the award. He was due, and it came at a good time.

[Windy City Flyer]

[QUOTE=San Diego Flyer;349915]That's not accurate. 26 seconds of play left. IF Pierre only makes one, Craft doesn't go to the bucket because OSU is ahead. Then the parade of free throws starts and OSU is only shooting 67% from the line. The lead could have changed 3 time in that span.[/QUOTE

OK I'll change my statement.....If Pierre doesn't make the 3 free throws, Vee may not have gotten the opportunity to make the last second shot.

More importantly, we're down 1 and Pierre Steps up to the line with 26 seconds in the game and makes 3 straight free throws with a completely confident look in his eyes!

[FlyingArrow]

Originally Posted by Avid Flyer I am going with Vee Sanford, he drove on the best defender in the Big Ten and possibly nation and got a step on him and banked the winner. Kudos also to the players who stood their ground when Craft sped up the floor for the last second shot. I believe Craft was trying to make contact and draw a foul but the refs weren't buying it.

+ YouTube Video

This video shows that Craft leaned into the Dayton defender, so the no-call was easy. This is a better angle to see that, and is closer to what the refs saw.

[ruechalgrin]

Kavs. I thought he was useless in Maui and I was yelling at Archie to yank him.

I still can't believe it, but I was yelling today for Archie to put Kavs in!!!

[Beatty Town Coach]

I can't exactly not vote for everyone who played and coached in the game, because everyone showed the courage, and although V's shot was crucial, it was Pierre's three free-throws, and The Big Fella setting the stage both offensively and defensively in the first half, that changed everything OSU did or did not do. From where Kav was back in November, compared to the last seven weeks, that is the difference in the season. If Kav is going to score 8-12 points, get a handful of rebounds, dominate space, have two assist per game, make some free-throws, and hit outside 10-15 footers, well, it's hard telling just how far UD could go with MK performing like that. This UD team is getting very hard to guard. I don't even think UD played their fullest or best game today. Let's hope that is still to come.

GO FLYERS BEAT CUSE!

[Fudd]

It was a big team effort, but I had to vote for Vee. His name goes down in UD history permanently for creating and hitting that shot under crushing pressure in one of our biggest games in 20 years and against the supposedly best defender in the Big Ten. He is in the books and etched in our minds in the same way the Ed Young is. Monster shot. Historic shot for UD fans.

This is a much bigger surprise to the national media than it is to most Dayton fans IMO. We beat Ohio State type BCS teams regularly. I absolutely believe it when Vee says this was just another game to him. The national press can't believe that it is true. It's the stage of the NCAA Tournament that forces everyone to take notice and take it to heart. The disbelief is a indicator of national perception changing a little bit. UD has been doing this for a long time outside of the national spotlight.

[rollo]

80 votes is a new record....

[FLYER5]

If you'd have had Kavs listed you'd have 81

[rollo]

12 more votes for an even 100!

[Beatty Town Coach]

Originally Posted by Fudd It was a big team effort, but I had to vote for Vee. His name goes down in UD history permanently for creating and hitting that shot under crushing pressure in one of our biggest games in 20 years and against the supposedly best defender in the Big Ten. He is in the books and etched in our minds in the same way the Ed Young is. Monster shot. Historic shot for UD fans. This is a much bigger surprise to the national media than it is to most Dayton fans IMO. We beat Ohio State type BCS teams regularly. I absolutely believe it when Vee says this was just another game to him. The national press can't believe that it is true. It's the stage of the NCAA Tournament that forces everyone to take notice and take it to heart. The disbelief is a indicator of national perception changing a little bit. UD has been doing this for a long time outside of the national spotlight.

You posted exactly what I have been thinking the past 5 days. I have OSU folks texting saying that UD has nothing to lose, etc. But that's just not true, UD had everything to lose yesterday. This game, and the subsequent win, meant just as much, and likely more, to The University of Dayton, than it did to tosu.

[T-Bone 84]

Voted for Vee on the basis of "Son of 'The Shot'", but could have voted for:
-DP for having the stones to attempt the 3, and then knock-down the freebies when he had to;
-MK for scoring 9 big ones in the first half to keep us in the game and set the tone;
-The guys who guarded Craft all day long and hounded him into all those turnovers;
-Arch and the coaches, for having (a) the cojones to pound the ball inside in the first half, (b) the wisdom to adjust in the second half to defend what tOSU was running on offense, and (c) the faith in a 5th year Senior to call an "iso" play to let him do what he does best (drive & shoot the floater) when the game and season were on the line.

A great (and, dare I say, legendary) win!

GO FLYERS!!

BEAT SYRACUSE!!