BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — The Flyers get set to face UMass ranked as the #25 team in the AP Coaches poll, guaranteeing that we will see UD highlights on Sports Center for the near to immediate future. The easiest way to insure that this continues is rather simple: keep winning!

Meanwhile, let’s take a look around the college hoops landscape and see what we can see:

— Don’t forget to vote early and often for Archie in The Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge:

http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/infiniti/2016/index?next=home

— Hoop Ten Harbor looks at UD’s non-con performance and grades it out as a solid B+:

http://hooptenharbor.com/2015/12/31/grading-a10-non-conference-performances-dayton/

— Like the AP, Bleacher Report has the Flyers pegged at #25 in the nation:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2604581-college-basketball-rankings-2015-16-bleacher-reports-week-9-top-25/page/2#

— Question: How does UD handle the team picture for this year? Do they re-shoot it with Dyshawn Pierre included; digitally insert him into the existing pic or simply leave it as is without him?

The answer at the end of this column!

— Reid Forgrave at Fox Sports envisions UD as one of his sleepers to win the National Championship:

http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/story/kansas-michigan-state-kentucky-college-basketball-national-title-march-madness-010416

— Rush the Court checks in on the A-10:

http://rushthecourt.net/2015/12/29/checking-in-on-the-atlantic-10-67/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

BTW, Rush the Court currently has UD ranked #23:

http://rushthecourt.net/2016/01/04/rtc-top-25-week-seven-edition/

— Garry Parrish at CBS Sports ranks the Red and Blue at #20 in his “Top 25 and One”:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25438372/kansas-and-oklahoma-keep-top-two-spots-in-top-25-and-one-after-3ot-thriller

— Jerry Palm foresees the Flyers as a 4 seed in The Big Dance:

http://rushthecourt.net/2016/01/04/rtc-top-25-week-seven-edition/www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

— Bobby Hurley at Arizona State is giving older brother Danny at Rhode Island a serious challenge for the coveted title of “Largest Toolbox in College Basketball Coaching” this year:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25436447/watch-bobby-hurley-ejected-late-as-arizona-defeats-arizona-state

May the biggest hothead win!

— Couple of recruiting names to file away for the future:

Malik Williams: http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/high-schools/A-time-to-decide-on-college-9698254

Isaac Kante: http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/1/sp-robeson-construction-hoops-2016-01-01-bd.html

— RIP, Meadowlark Lemon:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/entertainment/meadowlark-lemon-obit-globetrotters-feat/

— Answer: The Flyers will shoot another team picture at some point. In reality, they’ve taken what has turned out to be the official team picture in the second semester in each of the last three years.

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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