Stories by Doug Harris
College basketball scoring reaches 60-year low
The caliber of the play in Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan in the NCAA tournament final was applauded by many because of the high-powered offenses on display.Given the ever-slowing pace in college basketball, the game also was an anomaly.Overall scoring in 2012-13 was 67.5 points per team, marking four straight ...
Deane invited to U-19 national team trials
Dayton freshman Amber Deane doesn’t plan to suddenly become a player who jacks up shots and tries no-look passes in order to impress the USA basketball staff during her bid to make the U-19 national team this week. She figures she just has to display the fundamentally sound game that ...
Miller applauds rule change that lengthens preseason
The NCAA has started to give college basketball coaches something they’ve felt has been long overdue: more access to their players. The movement began a few years ago with the ability to stage workouts with up to four players from the first day of school until Sept. 15. And beginning ...
Parker earns player of year honors in Germany
Josh Parker didn’t know exactly what he was getting into when he signed to play pro basketball in Germany, but he felt better about his prospects overseas when he learned how much his team would be depending on him. “When I first got there, the coach said he was going ...
UD makes home visits with pair of shooting guards
College basketball coaches were able to make home visits with players in the junior class last month, and 6-foot-4 wing J.P. Macura was booked so solid that he had trouble recalling all the schools that made the trip to Minneapolis to huddle with him and his family. “Let’s see, there ...
Davidson officially joining A-10
The departure of Xavier and Butler to the new Big East was a blow for the Atlantic 10, but commissioner Bernadette McGlade has filled those vacancies with perhaps the two most attractive schools in the A-10 footprint outside of the power conferences. Davidson, the flagship program in the Southern Conference, ...
Kavanaugh reinstated by UD
Matt Kavanaugh couldn’t attend classes at Dayton while being suspended for a year for violating the school’s code of conduct, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t learn a thing or two during his time away. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound center said the disciplinary measures taken by UD taught him some life ...
Flyers ready to go for A-10 softball tourney
Dayton softball coach Cara LaPlaca has checked off one goal of turning the Flyers into regular participants in the six-team Atlantic 10 tournament. Her next objective is to put an end to a history of early exits. The sixth-seeded Flyers will play in the double-elimination event for the second time ...
Miller sets high bar in recruiting
Dayton basketball coach Archie Miller worked his way up the ranks mainly through stops at major colleges. But his first full-time assistant job came at Western Kentucky, and what he learned in his lone season there did more to shape his recruiting philosophy than anything he picked up at those ...
UD softball team making strides
Cara LaPlaca knew what she was getting into when she was hired as Dayton women’s softball coach in 2008. The Flyers had plummeted so far in the Atlantic 10 that they couldn’t see the top teams in the conference without a Hubble telescope. “Our first goals were to change the ...
Dillard hoping for shot at pro hoops
Kevin Dillard may have been the consummate team player at Dayton, but when he picks up a basketball these days, he’d rather have no one else on the court but him. The two-time Flyers MVP is preparing for a pro career and has been working out in solitude on the ...
Roberts exceeds expectations in rookie season
Brian Roberts was promised nothing when he joined the New Orleans Hornets last October as a 27-year-old rookie after a four-year pro career overseas. Coach Monty Williams told Roberts he’d have to prove he deserved meaningful playing time, and the former Dayton star did just that. He averaged 7.1 points ...
UD recruit shows he can pass and score
Dayshon “Scoochie” Smith knows most players are intent on showcasing their scoring skills in all-star games. And going into the Jordan Brand Classic at the Barclays Center last weekend, the Dayton-bound point guard figured he’d have a better chance of standing out by sharing the ball rather than competing for ...
Euphoria of high finish fades for UD grad
Mike Anderson, a former cross country star for Dayton, was riding a wave of adrenaline after finishing 42nd out of more than 27,000 runners in the Boston Marathon while being cheered on by his fiancée, ex-Flyer women’s basketball standout Kendel Ross. But all of that changed in an instant. A ...
DEs show promise; offensive line not yet set
Ohio State defensive ends Adolphus Washington and Noah Spence turned the Ohio State spring game at times into a sack fest. And while coach Urban Meyer was excited about those budding stars, he was vexed by the play of his right tackle candidates. Vandalia product Taylor Decker couldn’t contain Spence, ...
Miller, OSU offense shows improvement in spring game
Braxton Miller was sacked about a half-dozen times in the Ohio State spring game Saturday, but the junior quarterback was hindered by having to wear a no-contact black jersey, which meant defenders only had to touch him to register a tackle. He’s convinced he could have dodged a few under ...
Washington looks to take over Simon’s position
Ohio State’s Adolphus Washington was always so much bigger and stronger than his peers growing up that he could dominate without having to push himself. But the 6-foot-5, 290-pound defensive end from Cincinnati Taft High School knows his days of getting away with being a loafer are over. If he ...
Buckeyes looking to make inroads in Cincinnati
When Ohio State coach Urban Meyer hired Kerry Coombs as an assistant last year, he gained more than just a football lifer with loads of experience in the sport. Coombs also gave Meyer another much-needed link to Cincinnati. OSU football is big throughout Ohio, but there are divided allegiances between ...
Miller has come long way since freshman year
Even though he graduated from high school early and enrolled at Ohio State in time for spring practice, quarterback Braxton Miller was supposed to spend a redshirt freshman season under Terrelle Pryor and have time to get acclimated to college football. It didn’t work out that way. Because of an ...
NCAA tourney draws high TV ratings in Dayton
CBS-TV drew its highest rating for an NCAA championship game in 19 years when Louisville beat Michigan on Monday, and local basketball fans were a big part of those robust viewership numbers. The Dayton market drew a 24.0 rating, which was the sixth-highest figure in the nation. That means 24 ...
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