The rollercoaster that is UD basketball this season continued on Saturday night as the Flyers scored a season high 96 points after the dismal performance against Temple.
Mickey Perry led the way matching a career high with 15 points on 5-7 shooting, all from beyond the arc.
“My teammates found me and stuck with me,” said the senior guard from Chicago. “I got some opportunities after their hard drives and we knocked a couple down.”
Equally as important in the victory was London Warren who played a very good floor game and filled up the stat sheet with 6 points, 8 assists, 8 rebounds and no turnovers. He was very disruptive on defense forcing UMass into difficult shots leading to Flyer run outs.
“We wanted to be aggressive offensively, attack and play at a pace that was aggressive and confident,” said UD coach Brian Gregory. “I thought we did that.”
The Flyers (19-9, 8-6) now turn their attention to the No. 24 Richmond Spiders (22-7, 11-3) who are coming off a double overtime loss at Xavier.
Walk-on Logan Nourse, coming off his best performance in a Flyer uniform notching his first career point and adding an assist stressed the importance of Wednesday night’s game: “We need to knock them off to keep out at large hopes alive and also build momentum going into the A-10 tournament.”
Thursday night’s game tips off at 7:00pm.
