Credit score: David Jablonski
Credit score: David Jablonski
Keonte Jones made two of probably the most spectacular performs of the sport within the final of the 45 minutes the Dayton Flyers and Marquette performed Wednesday at Fiserv Discussion board Enviornment.
With Dayton main 74-71 in extra time, Marquette’s Chase Ross missed a soar shot within the paint. Dayton’s De’Shayne Montgomery and Amaël L’Etang jumped for the rebound however collided within the air, knocking the ball to Marquette’s Royce Parham, who appeared to have a wide-open dunk.
Trailing the play, Jones leaped and dunked Parham’s dunk try on the rim. The ball bounced to Dayton’s Jacob Conner.
Javon Bennett introduced the ball up the court docket. Marquette determined to foul him, stopping the clock with 36 seconds to play. Bennett made each to offer Dayton a five-point lead.
Then on Marquette’s remaining possession, after Bennett made 1 of two free throws to increase Dayton’s result in six factors, Jones blocked a 3-point try by Ross, a senior guard who leads Marquette in scoring (19.8 factors per sport).
Dayton might need gained the sport with out both block, however Jones put his stamp on the ending after experiencing plenty of highs and lows through the sport.
“It wasn’t actually his night time,” Montgomery mentioned, “however when extra time got here, I instructed him, ‘Put all that behind you. You’re a canine. Let’s win this sport.’ And he made game-winning performs.”
Jones scored Dayton’s solely basket within the final three minutes of the second half and made a tie-breaking 3-pointer within the opening minute of extra time. He additionally had six of the staff’s 25 turnovers.
Dayton improved to 4-1 with a 77-71 victory.
“It was a heck of a sport,” Dayton coach Anthony Grant mentioned. “A whole lot of ebbs and flows. You recognize it’s going to be like that. I’m simply happy with our guys for the battle they confirmed tonight.”
Dayton returns to motion at 2 p.m. Saturday in opposition to North Carolina Central (2-4) at UD Enviornment. Listed here are 5 issues to know in regards to the sport:
1: Sequence historical past: Dayton has by no means performed North Carolina Central, which is situated in Durham, N.C., 4 miles from the Duke College campus.
Dayton is 19-1 in opposition to Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention applications. That features a 91-82 victory against Bethune-Cookman final weekend.
2: State of this system: North Carolina Central completed 14-19 total and 6-8 within the MEAC final season. That ended a streak of three straight successful seasons.
The Eagles final performed within the NCAA match in 2019 after they made their third straight look within the First 4 at UD Enviornment. They misplaced 67-63 to UC Davis in 2017, 64-46 to Texas Southern in 2018 and 80-74 to North Dakota State in 2018.
Coach LeVelle Moton has led this system for 17 seasons. He performed for the Eagles from 1992-96.
Credit score: AP
Credit score: AP
3: Scouting report: Gage Lattimore, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard, leads North Carolina Central in scoring (21.5 factors per sport). He performed final season at Seton Hill College, a Division II faculty.
Khouri Carvey, a 6-9 senior ahead, averages 14.7 factors per sport and a team-high 7.5 rebounds. He performed at Morehead State final season.
Nobody else on the staff averages greater than 6.5 factors per sport.
N.C. Central misplaced seven gamers to the switch portal after final season, together with three double-digit scorers. It was the one MEAC program that opted to not share income with athletes.
“It’s disheartening, to say the least,” Moton instructed the Blue Ribbon School Basketball Yearbook. “You’re going to a gunfight with a butter knife. Our guys are preventing, and our program is preventing, however it will possibly’t be apples and oranges anymore. I can out-coach inexperienced apples and pink apples and white apples, however I can’t outcoach apples and oranges. That’s the issue proper now.”
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Credit score: AP
4: Early outcomes: North Carolina Central opened the season with a 114-66 loss at North Carolina State, an 81-62 loss at Virginia and a 76-54 loss at Appalachian State. It additionally misplaced 97-53 at North Carolina.
North Carolina Central’s solely victories got here in opposition to lower-division groups: Bluefield State and Toccoa Falls.
5: Odds & Ends: KenPom.com offers Dayton a 98% likelihood of successful and predicts an 85-61 rating.
Dayton ranks sixty fourth within the Pomeroy scores. North Carolina Central ranks 347th out of 365 Division I groups.
• Dayton guard Jordan Derkack scored eight factors Wednesday to succeed in the 1,000-point milestone in his profession. He scored 795 factors in two seasons at Merrimack and 176 final season at Rutgers. He has 35 factors in 5 video games at Dayton.
NEXT GAME
Who: North Carolina Central at Dayton
When: Saturday, 2 p.m.
Streaming: ESPN+
Radio: 95.7-FM, 1290-AM
Concerning the Writer
David Jablonski covers the Dayton Flyers and different sports activities for the Dayton Every day Information, Springfield Information-Solar and Journal Information.
