WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- The tipoff of the one and only Dayton Flyers’ exhibition game is 4 days away. There is still a lot we don’t know about this squad, such as details on the teams’ ‘secret scrimmage’ with Northern Kentucky over the weekend. Among some of the questions surrounding the 2017-18 edition of the Red & Blue are:
-- Is Kostas ready to rock?
-- Josh Cunningham -- is he fully healed and ready to dominate?
-- Will Darrell Davis take on the mantle of senior leadership?
-- How will the newcomers perform?
-- Will AG be more willing to play zone than Archie?
-- Who will be the X factor on this squad (beyond the obvious answer of one X Williams)?
“FTS” will be there on Saturday night and I’ll be staying over to participate in the "2nd Annual Twitter All-Star Pickup Extravaganza" hosted by David Jabolonski of
The Dayton Daily News at 5:00 pm on Sunday at McAfee Sports Center in Beavercreek.
Speaking of Jablonski, he and his
DDN cohorts been busy cranking out a ton of pre-season Flyer content. Such as:
Profiles on the new guys:
Jalen Crutcher
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/spo...9JFtajtUmUJmM/
Jordan Davis
http://www.daytondailynews.com/sport...qfxA784b5JXjO/
Jordan Pierce
http://www.daytondailynews.com/sport...dJbjjDWOLHbEK/
Matej Svoboda
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/spo...O8C5HuKFwHX2K/
Obi Toppin
http://www.daytondailynews.com/sport...eJKOj0BWLXQ7I/
And my personal favorite:
The top 10 UD players to hail from Detroit
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/spo...yl7eIr3TvzcXP/
Elsewhere in Flyerland:
-- UD is in the final four for KY SG Chance Moore, with a decision due on 11/8:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/sport...T5I1YJR5KeuUI/
--
M&A Sports sat down for a chat with AG:
http://masportsradio.libsyn.com/ma-s...sity-of-dayton
-- Interesting story on why Simeon Academy’s Talen Horton-Tucker (a Flyer target) ended up not going with his home state Illini:
https://www.suntimeshighschoolsports...horton-tucker/
-- A hoops round-robin between OSU, UC, X and UD? Chris Mack is listening:
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...ing/805013001/
-- Bronx native Scoochie Smith always sang the praises of his hometown’s chopped cheese sandwich.
CNN host Anthony Bourdain explains just what the heck a chopped cheese actually is:
https://explorepartsunknown.com/the-...sial-sandwich/
-- Stats guru Ken Pomeroy did an AMA on Reddit recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBask...ge_basketball/
--
CBS’ Matt Norlander had the unenviable task of ranking all 351 D-1 men’s basketball programs:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...o-alabama-a-m/
-- A Wisconsin man got locked in a walk-in beer cooler overnight. His solution: stay there, as “it had everything I needed”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.eb8334a3f1b2
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com