Charles Cooke will return to action for Dayton Flyers

Dayton Flyers senior guard Charles Cooke will play Wednesday night against Massachusetts at the Mullins Center. He has missed the last two games and three of the last four with wrist and ankle injuries.

Cooke leads the Flyers with 18.7 points per game. He averages 5.7 rebounds. He shoots 48 percent from the field, 35.3 percent from 3-point range and 70.6 percent from the foul line.

The Flyers won all three games without Cooke in the lineup, beating VMI 92-56, St. Bonaventure 90-74 and Rhode Island 67-64.

In other injury news, Josh Cunningham had the boot taken off his surgically-repaired ankle. That was the next step in his rehab process. He tore a ligament in his ankle in the second game of the season at Alabama and will be out at least three months, if not the whole season.

The Flyers (12-3, 3-0) are tied for first in the Atlantic 10 with VCU (13-3, 3-0) and Richmond (9-6, 3-0). UMass (10-6, 0-3) is tied for last with Fordham (6-10, 0-3) and Saint Louis (4-11, 0-3).

ALL the Flyers were doin' work today at shootaround. #TrueTeam #GoFlyers pic.twitter.com/jIh4qgv5OL
— Dayton Basketball (@DaytonMBB) January 11, 2017

Rehab coming along well @JoshMCunningham @DaytonTrueTeam pic.twitter.com/2OTrpzizuq
— Larry Hansgen (@larryhansgen) January 11, 2017

Archie talking with tonight's @CBSSportsNet crew about the UMass game. #TrueTeam #GoFlyers@TMacPhils @jordancornette pic.twitter.com/fm2HwPUA7o
— Dayton Basketball (@DaytonMBB) January 11, 2017

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