DAYTON, Ohio — Don Donoher used to begin his Dayton practices with each player performing a shooting drill, stationed at a basket with a staff member. When Anthony Grant played for Donoher, team managers would take the ball he used during those sessions and discard it in a bin when he finished. The ball, like Grant himself, would be dripping wet with sweat.



That’s how hard Grant worked, even during what should have been a fairly stress-free shooting warmup. And that’s how Grant turned himself into the Flyers’ leading scorer and rebounder as a senior. He wasn’t a pure shooter, Donoher recalls, but he wrung every ounce of his talent to reach his fullest potential. “He was the best teammate you’d ever want to come upon,” Donoher says.



Like most in the Dayton community, Donoher was thrilled when Grant agreed to return to his alma mater as the head coach. Everyone knew they were getting a man of high integrity, someone...