Dayton's best player, quiet all night, made the big noise at the end of the Flyers' 55-53 win over the Crusaders in the DCU Center Saturday night.
Roberts came in averaging 22.4 points per game. He was 2 for 7 with 5 points with 33 seconds to go in the game when he hit a jumper to put Dayton up by 5. Ralph Willard said it was the mortal blow to HC's six-game season-opening win streak.
“Roberts’ shot,” Willard told Jen Toland of the Telegram and Gazette, “was a killer.”
Tim Clifford, who had 20 points for Holy Cross, hit two threes back to back late in the last 30 seconds, but it the Crusaders could not get off a shot on their final possession.
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