i'm mike hart sock along with my partner, derek dukes. the monarchs wrapped up through the college association as the best team. >> monarchs like the flyers are picked to win their division. they can go on a winning

streak. >> old dominion has an intertagsal player. their best player, gerald lee. >> dayton will have to do a great job of shut him down tonight. >> one of the guys who will be assigned that job isthe curt hill, the flier senior. >> his deans will be on full display as he has the primary responsibility of shutting down gerald lee. friday night basketball, dayton and old dominion. we asked them about the match- up. >> every team is as talented inside as we have played, including villanova, kansas state, georgia tech, to be honest with you. they can score, post extremely hard, are in the top 20 in the

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>> mike: welcome back to the university of dayton, arena where the flyers get ready to take on old dominion. let's take a look at tonight's line-up brought to you by joseph airport toyota. monarchs, under blaine taylor, they are 6-3. they'll go thisy, gerald lee, darius james, keyon carter and frank hassell are the starters for the monarchs.

for the dayton flyers, under brian gregory in his seven years, you have chris wright, curtis huelsman, chris johnson. marcus johnson. they come in at 62. the keys to tonight's game. derek, let's start with the visitors >> derek: mike, when we talk about keys to the game for the monarchs, they have to have the long shot. and the offensive rebound. the team is undefeated when they have 14-plus offensive rebounds. they need to be aggressive, passing the basketball, for easy baskets >> mike: for the dayton flyers? >> derek: we talked about dayton, the key to the offensive, playing defense, playing against one of the best big man in the country. shadow on the board. that will be key >> mike: looking at facing a

guy like gerald lee, an outstanding post player, but it's interesting to me, one of the guys that normally starts for old dominion, one of the shutdown defenders is not in the starting line-up >> derek: he is not but he will be in the game pretty quickly, because this team, this monarch team, they can't do it without him. they need the defensive stops. they are one of the best in account trunk, this monarch team at shutting down the opponent and he is a big guy >> mike: we have to talk to you about bounce back here. you have chris wright with two pounds on a tip gin. that's tip-in against george mason. you have to have a short memory. >> you have to, as a scorier. he had a very poor game, was really neutralized at george mason but if you take a look at chris' record, he play as lot better basketball at home.

he averages over 20 point a game at home versus against the road. so big difference playing at home versus the road >> mike: what's the streak? he has not lost here in the arena since he was is a sophomore. sophomore and high school, 31-0 clean yatch and if you include his high school days >> mike: flyers in their home white uniform trimmed in red and blue. old dominion in their dark blue trimmed in light blue and white. sit back, relax and enjoy, dayton flyers basketball here on whio tv. joe di may yo moves in from the basketball. we are ready for some action here and the depth controlled by the flyers. london warren brings it across. inside, marcus johnson and the flyers do what they do well, coming out of the timeout or the start of the game >> derek: the flyers are great at executing out of dead ball situation, get the 9th easy lay

in by marcus johnson. he is started the same way he started the george mason game with a nice, easy game. >> down. the rebound. chris johnson. here comes london, finds chris johnson, back the other way. flyers looking to get set now in the half court. london up top with it. they double team him, swinging around. somebody is open in the corner. it's marcus johnson. now, they pick him up. dayton up 2-0. >> it starts at the high post and looks for a little dunk down for the low post to chris wright. >> stolen back by chris johnson. chris wright picks up the loose one, gets the bucket. >> derek: they are being very aggressive tonight, taking the ball to the bass kempt as you said, only two points in the last game. he already matched that in less than two minutes in tonight's ballgame. give the credit to chris johnson. he had the hand up after the bad pass and was able to knock

it down. old dominion looking for their first point. that's leeway outside. darius james with it on the left point. >> you can rest assured that the monarchs will be looking to lee on this play down court here. he is really the center peels of their offense. >> carter, up top, kick it outside. james, rattles home the three ball. darius james has of. >> james, nice point guard, one of those lead guards that look for a pass first but took the open three-point shot, able too knock it down. >> inside to huelsman, he gets the roll over lee. that's going to be key, too. you have to go in and make lee work a little on defense >> derek: that's right. that's one way you neutralize the offensive player. you go at hem and make him play defense. kurt hustle hustle huelsman, we talked about the easy

defense. >> mike: up top, ben finney, short. chris wright the rebound. here comes dayton, warren, down the lane, up high, miss, huelsman the rebound. he is in traffic. what happened? we have a foul. huelsman being helped up. the foul is on old dominion. take another look >> derek: london warren able to find a seam in the defense. just not able to come up with the lay-up and kurt huelsman could not make the put back. >> carter picks up the foul. >> mike: up top, carrying the ball on mickey perry. here comes frank hassell into the line-up >> derek: dayton applying a little bit of poke and pressure. this is what i call nuisance

pressure. really not a great field, just to get you off the floor. dayton up 6-3 early. we played almost three minutes of basketball here at the arena and that's over and back. darius james being hounded by mickey perry. since he came here, mickey perry has got to be such a better defensive player. >> he has. he came here known as a shooter. he made the transition and understands he's not going to play many minutes if he can't play defense for brian gregory. >> nobody is going to do that if they can't play defense. >> coming off the dribble >> derek: we always knew perry knew how to create his own shot and knock down the shot but he has really improved his

defense, as you said >> mike: paul williamsjumps off the bench, replaces chris johnson. williams seeing his first action. and another substitution. this one, marshall masharee kneely comes in. misses and the foul. followed up and in by masharee neely and he is fouled as well. take a look. braze more not able to follow up. masharee neely going to the free throw line >> derek: just wanted it more than dayton did. he outran the entire dayton line-up. >> mike: miss that had one badly. flyers still lead 6-5 i think monarch team is very experienced, veteran ball club. very athletic

>> mike: mickey perry at the top, down low, another bad pass by chris wright, hit the pack and traveled. chris seems to be forcing just a little bit. >> derek: yeah, maybe a little bit too aggressive, just driving into the defense with the bad pass. he may have got fouled but should not go that far into the defense. because this monarch team does a great job of clogging up passing lanes. as you saw, they came up with that turnover >> mike: flyers in full court pressure, dayton leading by one. we are coming up with 4 minutes gone here in the first half. lee drives and scores. old dominion has a one-point lead >> derek: that's way too easy. no weak side defense help here for the flyers. >> mike: paul williams up top, perry bounces back out. there is a foul going up. marcus johnson is going to have a free throw when we come back.

15:59 left to play in the first half. old dominion a one-point lead. we are back right after this.

dayton down by 1 in the first four minutes here at the uv arena. old dominion with a 7-6 lead. good thing for them that gerald lee has not scored. the battle inside belongs to kurt huelsman >> derek: kurt hustleman not

known as an offensive threat but of late, he was able to provide some offensive help. >> mike: before the break, marcus johnson was fouled in the act. three fouls on old dominion, only one on the flyers. marcus gets the first one to go. only a 40% free throw shooter in this season. career wise, he is much, much better than that >> derek: career wise, he is in the high 70s. he really struggled this year in every facet of the game but the last three ball games, he has come on, shooting the basketball a lot better. that resulted in a lot higher shooting percentage >> mike: he gets them both. flyers go back up top. full court pressure, old dominion brings it back no problem.

first time in the game, marquel de lancey. here come the employers. paul williams the right side, now looking inside. luke fabz quo fabrizio in the lane. >> derek: this dayton team chuting 80% largely due to a lot of lay-ins >> mike: good look by mickey perry. maybe old dominion and others were looking for fabre sieio. offensive foul called on frank hassell. look out. we have two flyers down, maybe knocking heads. i'm not sure >> derek: paul williams lands

right on luke fabrizius' knee. that doesn't look good. i think he hyper extended his knee >> mike: luke just came into the game. he is not looking -- >> derek: really bent his knee completely back. one of those common injuries that takes place when you are under the basket and you have a charge that occurs. i'm not sure if we're going to have the opportunity to see another replay, but fabrizius obviously in quite a bit of pain. quite a bit of pain. the arena has gone quiet. luke is going to try to get up, get help from mike bewley. mike and nate carrying him off. he is not putting any wit on that leg >> derek: no, he is not. we're going to get an opportunity to see that.

paul williams -- we didn't get a good angle there. as he was falling back, all the weight landed ofabz fabrizius' knee. the monarchs fall in their 3-2 zone. this is where luke will pay big difficult dents. >> thrown away. another bad pass and london warren slams it out of bounds but they got a foul on london. >> london came from nowhere to block that one but joe di mayo said he got a piece of the arm and he did. >> got a lot of ball but as he followed through with the swing, that's where he got him opt arm >> mike: good play by london not giving up the easy lay-in. bazemore misses it. that gives one point that they were going to get

>> derek: that was a for sure dunk. possibly,er misses this free throw, that's a fantastic foul. right now that's a good foul >> mike: real good one. missed them both. here comes daytop with the ball. london warren pushes it. high post, huelsman swings >> derek: they're going to need to knock down some open shots tonight. >> mike: and chris walks i the another travel by chris >> mike: yep. old dough men ondoing a nice job stepping up in thepassing lane >> derek: they are. they are doing a good job of scouting this team, in particular chris wright. they try to force him to his left. chris has to respond and understand that he can't go to his right every time he touches the ball at the top of the key. he has to go to that short mid- range jump shot on occasion >> mike: down low the parks inside to lee, misses the jump hook. he is still scoreless. stolen away and back up and in

by marquel de lancey. the flyers continue to be sloppy with it and their lead a down to 1, 10-9 >> mike: chris job son, high post, back tout london warren. london coming off the dribble, trying to squeeze through traffic. so left on -- so 10 left on the shot clock. chris wright's jumper was blocked. here comes old dough membership on, they miss it again. loose ball, london comes. gerald lee missed point blank range. dayton get it back. inside, chris wright lose it is on -- loses it on the floor again. another turnover for chris >> derek: i'm keeping an eye on brian gregory. he is not pleased with chris

wright. this is a june otherleader, are candidate for the nai smith award. right now, he is doing a poor job of taking care of the basketball. de lancey against london warren on the baseline, almost loses it, gets it back, tries force it up, one second up. they won't get the shot up. the flyers with a nice job defensively. here comes three new players in the line-up. rob lowery in for the first time along with marcus johnson and josh benson >> derek: that's dayton's best defensive possession of the game so far, shut down the offense, shut down the first, second position and force the bad shot. >> mike: swinging into the corner, almost thrown away.

johnson. acrobattically goes to the basket. that's his first point of the night. >> mike: gerald lee will play point guard now. >> derek: he is one of the most versatile big men in the country. agile >> mike: down low goes hank hassell, foul called. timeout on the floor with 11:56 left to play. dayton with a three-point lead over old dough membership on.

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>> mike: back at the university of dayton arena where the flyers lead old dominion 12-9, but dayton without the services of luke fbz just for the rest of the night. you see him with a sprained right knee as teammate paul williams fell into him. fabrizius will not play the rest of this night. you can see what happened with luke here down the road >> derek: that's the a really unfortunate loss for luke. luke is obviously a great kid. he is needed tonight because he is such a terrificshooter from the outside and monarch will play a lot of zone and they

will force dayton into open shots. curt huelsman blocked the shot but they called the foul. i was going to say get that junk out of there and i still think it should >> derek: take a look, mike. you see -- >> mike: followed up on his head >> derek: that's almost an automatic foul in the college game >> mike: the first foul. odu continues to miss some free throws. frank hassell misses that one. >> derek: they are now 0-for-3 from the charitystripe and they come into the game a pretty good free throw shooting team >> mike: yes. there is one. that's two-point game. flyers in front. lowery in a hurry. >> derek: monarchs in an extended zone. they force you out in the high portion of the court.

all dayton passes are taking place above the three-point lane. >> mike: lowery in the corn e chris johnson, swings it across to marcus, marcus, the pull-up in the lane, he is short and the rebound comes down to old dominion, they are looking for the tie on the break. they missed the easy lay-up. loose ball, rob lowery comes away with it. lowery behind his back, gets bumped, no harm, no foul. double team on johnson down low goes benson, benson in trouble now. he gets it out and the flyers all kind of trouble against this defense. lowery penetratessings goes up with it and gets the roll. >> derek: that's what the gap in the defense there is. when you reverse the basketball, take it down the center, the heart of the lane, you get a lot of nice, easy looks. that's what is really susceptible about the zone defense when you reverse the basketball, it leaves a lot of

gaps in the middle of the court. >> mike: flyers up 14-10. lee yet to score tonight, backing down, outside to darius james who can't get it to go. out of bounds. it will be dayton basketball. they are really efficient on the offensive glass. they can handle just about everything >> derek: they are one of the best offensive rebounding teams in country averaging just about 16 offensive rebounds per game, which is releaptless. when you take a look at the losses, they only averaged 122 offensive rebound. that's a key denominator in all of the losses. paul dribbling through the trap to mickey, brown low, bounces to benson and josh throws it away. up court, the long pass, skipped out of bounds. it will be off marcus johnson and old dominion will keep it. here is chris wright back in

the flyers line-up for josh benson. old dominion with the ball, trailing by 4 >> derek: so far, the flyers have 9 turnovers. we are not even halfway through the first half here. in bounce pass comes way out on top. and bazemore will run it down. darius james. old dominion right now with gerald lee out of the game gets a break. bazemore, puts his head down. >> derek: that's what they do in late shot clock situation. they go with the 11-4 set, spread the court and allows bazemore to go 1 on 1. pretty tough to stop, mano a mano >> mike: flyers up 2. swing around ha