Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Donald John May (Donnie) Position: Small Forward Shoots: Left 6-4, 200lb (193cm, 90kg) Born: January 3, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio us. May played all 45 minutes, scoring 26 points and pulling down 20 rebounds. Everyone has their favorite player but to me Don May played basketball the way it was meant to be played, inteligently, tough, and from baseline to baseline.Saw May when I entered UD as a freshman in 1967. Henry Finkel may have averaged more points per game, Bill Uhl may have averaged more rebounds per game, and Roosevelt Chapman may have scored more points …
Site Last Updated: Saturday, May 16, 7:17AM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? May played at UD from 1965 to 1967, leading the Flyers to the 1967 NCAA championship game and the 1968 NIT title.

Next up: the eighth-ranked Volunteers of Tennessee, led by  the beefy Tom Boerwinkle and Ron Widby. He averaged 20.2 points and 7.3 rebounds in about 35 minutes a game for the Braves–who promptly traded him to the Atlanta Hawks after the season.

@Larry: My family had season tickets to UD games when Smitty was there — he was my sister’s favorite (I was a Johnny D guy!).

Watching Don May at UD was amazing, to think he was 2nd team All American 2 years in a row.

They reflected the signs of the times, though. UD in a nail biter playing for the last shot with time running out versus a Western Kentucky, St. Louis, Detroit, or Cincinnati was infinitely more suspenseful than today’s run and gun game with a shot clock. Don’t know if they are true but will do my part to keep that legend alive. Peace, dude. The Hokies led 62-52 late in the second half, but the Flyers rallied to force OT.

View the profiles of people named Donnie May. But the Flyers got off to a more than rocky start; after 16 games, their record stood at a embarrassing  7-9.

Didn’t matter to them that i told them as they were kickin my ass that I had been rooting for Roth, Smitty and Lumpkin were the best guard combo I had ever seen on a high school team.What stands out to most about the Roth fans was how every time Donald would shoot they would hiss, “Two.” Always thought that was cool.

Finkel went to the NBA, drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round, but it turns out Don May was just getting started.Dayton started the 1966-67 ranked 13th in the UPI poll and spent the season falling out of and bouncing back into the rankings.

After that season, May was selected by the Buffalo Braves in the expansion draft, and in 1970-71, he was a starter for the new franchise. That season did not start very well, but I have a vivid recollection of the winning streak and beating Fordham , Notre Dame, and Kansas in the NIT. So while I loved May’s overall game, Donald Smith was the greatest pure shooter I have ever seen.
Best high school team that should of been undefeated, but with more fouls called against them in that game then they had in any 2 games that year.

I saw him play in several of the greatest high school games I have ever seen. Prior to Stetson, Jones served as the head coach of the UCF Knights men's basketball team from 2010 to 2016 and at Marshall from 2007–2010.

I was 10 at the time, growing up watching the Flyers. I think that your blog can go viral easily, but youI played football against Don May in grade school…..he was a helluva halfback.God bless Hal McCoy, he was so right about Don May’s Belmont team to this day.

May was named the MVP of the tournament.May was chosen  by the Knicks in the third round of the 1968 draft but found it hard to get much playing time on a team with forwards like Bill Bradley and Dave Debusschere, though he did get a ring as a member of the Knicks’ 1970 NBA championship squad (as did his old Belmont teammate Hosket).

May finished with 34 points and 15 rebounds as the Flyers had a relatively easy time (for a change), winning 76-62.In the final game, Dayton was overmatched by the undefeated, Lew Alcindor-led UCLA Bruins. Here’s Jim Savage in May finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds, but he shot only 9 of 23 from the field; for the game, the Flyers were a woeful 34% on their FG attempts. Entering the NCAA Tournament, UD defeated the sixth-ranked Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in the first round 69-67 in overtime, overcoming a 10-point halftime deficit. The Flyers eked out a 53-52 win, with May struggling to a 9-point, 14-rebound effort. Good memories.Donald Smith, Don May, Roosevelt Chapman, Henry Finkel, Jim Paxson and on and on and on. Henry Finkel may have averaged more points per game, Bill Uhl may have averaged more rebounds per game, and Roosevelt Chapman may have scored more points in his career–but May is still the greatest Flyer of all time. UD has had some great players, Chapman and Smith certainly qualify. Don May (basketball) (born 1946), American small forward Donnie May (born 1966), Canadian stock car racer in Emo Speedway Championships Don May, Jr. (born 1967), American producer of video documentaries, founder of Synapse Films But May’s game was probably more balanced.