BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — The reaction to the Flyers’ vanquishing of the school to the south over the weekend has been immediate and overwhelmingly positive. Let’s face it, what’s not to like?
Well, for starters — complacency.
— Archie addresses that very subject in this piece from Doug Harris in The DDN:
— Ahhhh, what the heck… we’re fans; let’s enjoy the V over X a little while longer, shall we? Here is a brief video of the post-game pandemonium, as recorded by crack photog Ron Thaman from FlyerHoops.net:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0rWxLCFaw&feature=related
— Tom Archdeacon talks with Don Donoher in The DDN about Archie Miller, Don May and UD’s dubious record for most personal fouls called on one team in an NCAA Tournament game:
— Jeff Goodman was the first to jump on the “Archie Miller for Coach of the Year” bandwagon in this tweet:
“It’s now time to start talking about Dayton as a legitimate NCAA tournament team – and Archie Miller as a legit player for National COY.”
— Andy Katz of ESPN.com got in line right behind Goodman:
More teams that impressed us
Dayton: The Flyers easily knocked off rival Xavier to move into first place by themselves in the A-10. That followed up a four-point win over surprising league contender La Salle. The A-10 coach of the year award is Archie Miller’s to lose.
— Followed closely by “Joey Brackets” who has UD as a #9 seed on the day before the Flyers face St. Joe Joe’s Flapping Birds in Philly:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
— For those who want to build their own bracket at home, here are a couple of tools to help you do that.
The Dayton “team sheet” the Committee uses, straight outtta the conference room at NCAA HQ on “Selection Sunday”:
http://www.bbstate.com/schools/UD/sheet
“The Bracket Matrix” with every bracket ever published, all in one place:
http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm
— Ian Nolan pounds out another Atlantic 10 Notebook for College Chalk Talk:
http://collegechalktalk.com/conferencenotebooks/atlantic10/1.23.12Nolan
— “Three Unranked College Basketball Teams that Will Make NCAA Tournament in 2012” according to Rivals.com. Take a guess which team is #1 of the 3?
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ycn-10866325
— CW and fellow rookie GSW teammates Jeremy Tyler and Charles Jenkins “Dub the Vote”:
http://www.nba.com/warriors/photogallery/dubthevote_gallery_19.html
— Former Temple coach “Farmer John” Chaney is 80 years old and has not changed one iota:
— Duquesne’s TJ McConnell is a gritty Pittsburgh hoops junkie, not unlike our current head coach:
— If you want to follow halftime entertainment sensation Red Panda on Twitter, all you gotta do is click here:
http://twitter.com/#!/IamRedPanda
— Goldfish Salvation!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d6_1326180805
— Is that a nail in your head or are you just happy to see me?
— Child actors then and now:
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/child-actors-then-and-now
–“The Cautionary Tweets of the Week” come to us from the Flyers been-there-done-that Assistant Coach Kevin Kuwik:
“Nowadays the best teams are the ones who handle success the best…”
“With Twitter and the internet constantly telling you how good you are, it’s easy to become a ‘fat cat’ and get complacent…”
“Always interesting to see how teams practice a) after a big win, and b) after a day off”
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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