Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio • 9

-A March 18. 1984 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Awesome! Faithful fill fieldhouse for Flyer forayj house until midnight A party was planned by Phi Sigma Kappa, a chapter of a national social fraternity atUD. Prompted by the enthusiasm of the crowd and the prospect of playing four more games for the championship, one student wondered aloud: "What's going to happen when we win the tournament?" Rolls of toilet paper were hurled through the air soon after the game started and continued to its end. "IT WAS AWESOME," said Beth Merriman, a sophomore from Rochester, N.Y. "Oklahoma had a good team, but we were better." Even though heavy rain later dampened the street celebrations, festivities were planned to continiue at the field- Oriental Rug By FILED LAWSON Stt Writer The final seconds were tense.

About 2.000 University of Dayton students chanted the countdown. Then the UD Fieldhouse erupted in cheers as the Flyers claimed an 89-85 basketball victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in national collegiate tournament play. "I think it was totally awesome," said Joe Scheper, a junior from Edge-wood, Ky. "UD is going all the way." "It was excellent, UD is the best," 'said Megan Duffy, a sophomore from Kettering." ANGELA CARDON, a junior from 'Long Island, N.Y., described the win as "fantastic." Her companion, Liz Horvath, a sophomore from Buffalo, N.Y., added, "We deserved it" Jt was an exciting for the throng of ttidents who gathered in the to watch the big game on a gfcmt television screen. LThe students cheered Flyer baskets, steals and rebounds, and booed the referees' calls which gave the ball to the Oklahoma Sooners.

The game was the second round of play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association West Regional tournaments. The loudest outbursts came in the game's final seconds when live telecasts from the Fieldhouse were inserted in the local broadcast of the game and the students saw themselves. When UD won, the crowd rushed into the streets around the campus. 'Alberta Street, just outside of the fieldhouse, filled with the noisy, ecstatic revelers. Many jumped into cars and started honking horns.

Smoke rose into the skies as numerous small fires were set in the streets ,4 0 'A JL Staff photo by Willy Nelson UD students celebrate Flyer win near fire at Kiefaber Street and Lawnview Avenue Clearance Sale Save 25-50 ON ENTIRE STOCK Oriental Design Rugs of 100 Wool Handwoven Chinese, India, Pakistan and Turkish Designs Country and Contemporary Designs Braided and Rag Rugs 1 WEEK ONLY! MONDAY, MARCH 19th thru SUNDAY, MARCH 25th Special Sunday Hours 12 N-5 p.m. for this sale of the residential area southeast of the campus. Household items, like sofas, chairs and mattresses, were used to fuel the fires in celebration. Dayton firefighters and police and UD safety officials were on the scene and quickly extinguished the blazes. There was no serious damage due the bonfires.

ONE MINOR injury, unrelated to the fires, was reported in the area. A UD security official said students began arriving at the fieldhouse an hour before the game started at 4 o' clock. Many of the fans sat on the floor in front of the screen, which was at one end of the building. Many more stood behind them, and more were in the upper stands. Enthusiasm was high from the start and continued to build as UD took the lead about midway of the first half of the game, never to be headed.

When camera closeups of Oklahoma players shooting free throws appeared on the screen, UD students waved their hands pretending to distract them. Missed shots brought immediate shouts of joy. The sight of Roosevelt Chapman, the Flyer scoring star, roused cheers, as did the cheerleaders, pep band and Rudy the Flyer mascot. "Here we go, Flyers; here we go!" was chanted throughout the game. As the Flyers slowed the pace down at the end to kill time, the students kept rooting for the team.

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Sunday 12 N-5 p.m. "He told me it was the greatest moment in his coaching career," Chapman said, "because he felt this team really deserves everything we've done. I was happy to have a game like this on national television and to beat a nationally ranked team like Oklahoma. I hope it made my stock go up (as far as being drafted in National Basketball Association is concerned). "We knew they couldn't be here, because it was a long way from home," Chapman added, "but we knew they were rooting for us all the way and watching us on television.

We wanted to put on a good show for them and make them proud of us." "This win puts Dayton back on the basketball map," sophomore forward Rory Dahlinghaus said. "Now people know about us again." the athletic programs." COACH DON DONOHER was understandably proud of his Flyers, and had some plans for when the bedlam calmed down. "There're three things that I'm going to do when I get back (to the hotel)," he said. "I'm going to go out to the cathedal here in town for a minute, I'm going to go out and buy a kelly green shirt and get one for Chapman, too, and I'm going to sit back and enjoy this victory because we're going to California. I absolutely can't believe it.

This team is too much." Chapman thrilled the crowd as well as a regional television audience with a career-high 41 points, mostly on moves Dayton fans have come to enjoy over the last four years. Both Chapman and Donoher were interviewed by CBS after the game. Before going on the air, Donoher gave Chapman a big hug. Continued from Page 1-A. "Those guys are just a fun team to watch," said Rick Newstrom, an Eng-lfsh instructor at the university who calls himself "a basketball fanatic." He and five friends have seen all of the games in the regional here.

"This Dayton team is charismatic," he said. "You root for them to start with because they don't have the big stud like Oklahoma did (6-9 Ail-American Way-man Tisdale, who scored 36 points). But they're fun to watch. "They're well-coached and Roosevelt Chapman is a great, great player. He really made a hit with the people here in the two games he played.

You always like to see the underdog win. I bet Dayton has picked up a lot of fans because of the two wins they've gotten here." Tom Frericks, UD vice president for university relations and athletic director, said, "Considering everything, this is the biggest win in the history of the school. This does wonders for our financial needs, but the exposure helps us recruit students, which is also part of my job. It is just unbelievable. The NCAA had enough faith in us to give us a chance to get in and we haven't proven them wrong so far." Financially, the tournament was a windfall for UD, which one week ago was thinking about the National Invitation Tournament, not the NCAA.

Just by being picked to play in the NCAA, the Flyers got $153,500 which each of the 53 original teams in the tournament received. By winning Saturday, the pot goes up to $460,500 for making it into the final 16. That means UD picked up $310,000 by beating Oklahoma. "It is great for the whole school," Sheilds said. "Not only the national exposure on television, but the money and a trip to Los Angeles.

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